We need Matt Williams as our next King County District Court Judge. I have known Matt Williams personally and professionally for more than 20 years. He has earned my personal and professional respect as a member of our community and as an attorney.
As citizens consider voting in a brand new crop of state legislators, mainly because of their dissatisfaction with the current crop's performance, I really hope they don?t throw out the baby with the bath water. Sen. Claudia Kauffman, who is just completing her first term in Olympia, thoroughly deserves re-election.
As a long time supporter of the Kent School District, I am tired of seeing the cuts in education, the large class sizes and programs that are being cut such as 5th grade band and orchestra. It is time for the voters of Washington state to take a stand and vote yes for I-1098 on Nov. 2.
James Kerr’s letter, "Let’s not abandon deep-sea drilling," appearing in your Sept. 3 issue, suggests exactly the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster we don’t need and must not accept.
The proposed penalty for Mr. Gregory Aurdell Ross is hard to believe. Four years and six months for the needless deaths of Ms. Cormier and Ms. Stenseth is a crime in itself.
I was at the Farmers Market here in Kent today. I purchased some fruit, ate my lunch, and brought out my henna and made a sign.
Henna is paste made from natural oils and extracts and it is used like a cake-maker uses icing to draw designs on the skin. As it dries it dyes the skin brown leaving a beautiful temporary tattoo for about a week.
Regarding your oil-spill article on Aug. 20, "Are we any smarter following Gulf Oil Spill: Editor’s Note".
Most of our food comes from the sea. If the sea life is contaminated and we humans are contaminated, we are contaminated too.
It is common to find an overly narrow view of what makes a statement or event “political.” This can be seen in Ross Douthat’s editorial, “Mr. Beck Goes to Washington” (New York Times, Aug. 29, 2010).
Let's not inflict needless punishment on the American people with a knee-jerk reaction.
Gang members are feeling misrepresented and can’t understand why.
As we attract aesthetic beauty into our lives, we work out the dirt, the misunderstood, and we create our homes and yards with a mixture of practicality, beauty and style (developed or undeveloped).
I want to thank the Kent Reporter for publishing that great overdue letter on the Sound Transit System:"Sound Transit Rail a massive waste of taxpayers' money." I knew from its inception that it was not a truthful proposal. But it is a great shakedown operation put upon the citizens of these counties.
South King County residents and businesses should support the ShoWare Center by attending events there. This remarkable facility, completed in 2009, was jointly envisioned and funded by the Seattle Thunderbird Hockey Team and the city of Kent. With additional funding provided by the Washington State Legislature, this venue provides comprehensive entertainment services for the South Sound area.
With all the noise about "same-sex" marriages, they should have lived during the Dust Bowl days down in Texas.
If we are ever to rein in runaway government spending, the place to start is to put the fat pig called "pork barrel" on a permanent diet. This means retiring the members in Congress who solicit their constituents' votes with promised earmarks, which are then attached to what might otherwise be a justifiable bill.
The Service Station Dealers of America and Allied Trades believes that the passage of the Motor Vehicle Owners’ Right to Repair Act (S 3181/HR 2057) is critical to the long-term survival of a competitive automotive-repair industry.
The editor of the Kent Reporter has asked me to write a column on who I am, the organizer of Peace Day, to be held at 7 p.m. July 10 at the Kent-Meridian High School Performing Arts Center.
So who is this guy Ken Iverson and where did he come from and why is he peddling Peace Day.
Head tennis pro Allan Overland, the staff at Boeing Employee Tennis Club and Kent 4 Health hosted a free event June 24 for Kent 4 Health’s ‘Cruzin’ Passport’ participants. Kids were given tennis tips from instructors and played fun drills to build beginning tennis skills. Some parents got into the action too!
Reading another article about the murder of another darling child is heartbreaking. Seeing that the murderer, Joel Zellmer, only got 50 years, is maddening.
This progressive state, with its touchy-feelie good laws has no sense at all.
I often glance through the obituary section of the Sunday paper. I enjoy the old photos… the little pieces of written history that follow. The most revealing part of a death notice is the last paragraph, the suggested recipients of donations in lieu of flowers.
With sincere hearts, we - Jayne Johnson and Family extend our gratitude for the time, talent, abilities, and contributions that have changed our lives for the better. It's absolute truth: Life is about meaningful relationships in community.
