Like a lot of people involved with the city of Kent, I'm trying to make sense of the senseless.
Seth Frankel, the city's video-program coordinator, is no longer with us, and it's so difficult to wrap my head around the reasons why.
As outlined in news reports (including ours), Frankel, 41, was found deceased at his Auburn home May 22, and his death is being investigated as a homicide.
Back in 1990, the Food and Drug Administration required major food producers to label their packages with calorie, fat, carbohydrate, and other nutritional information.
For many of us, this changed the way we bought groceries.
The meal was chicken and dumplings, and my companion was Jean Ray.
And for a measly $6, I had lunch and made a friend on a Monday afternoon. The Kent Senior Activity Center is the place to be for a weekday lunch. And, frankly, it needs our support.
Recently Seattle was awarded, for the second year in a row, the title of "Most miserable sports city." We can thank the fine folks at Forbes magazine for giving us this most dubious honor.
Our City Council is discussing something that will continue to dog every Puget Sound city for years to come:
Street projects and how to pay for them.
While I have to give them credit for putting everything on the table, in terms of which ox to gore for the required funds, it’s distressing to see where they’re looking first.
As Mother's Day approaches, it’s given me time to think about what my mom has meant to me. Since I hate buying cards from Hallmark, and sending flowers that will be dead in a week has never appealed to me, I would like to say thanks here and now to my mom and other moms around the world.
If you’re like me, you probably still have questions about the Federal health-care reform bill. Through the media, many of us have heard that pre-existing conditions no longer prevent people from getting or keeping health insurance. Still others may be aware that their children under 26 are now eligible to be covered under their health insurance plan, and that it closes the Medicare Part D “donut hole” for seniors.
The financial picture for Kent’s ShoWare Center is not an upbeat one these days.
Now going into its second year, the city-owned events center is projected to fall short, once again. This time to the tune of about $140,000. That’s about $300,000 less than the center lost last year - its first year of operation.
Velda Mapelli didn’t have to die.
The 83-year-old Renton woman, who was tragically hit by a cyclist on Renton’s Cedar River Trail last week, underscores one of the biggest problems of our otherwise wonderful trail system.
Two-hundred fifty degrees, in the abstract sense of the word, is hot. Very hot.
But it takes sitting in a smoke-filled room, watching orange flames roaring up to the ceiling, to appreciate the incinerator quality of this level of heat.
Spring has officially sprung, the birds are chirping, the moles have returned to form their own underground condo (don’t ask) and my thoughts are preoccupied with baseball, golf and barbecue.
When we asked this question last year, parents and community members stood behind Kent teachers in responding that KSD’s top priority should be students and supporting learning in the classroom.
Disneyland is a happier place, since my departure last week from Southern California.
I don't know how many of you have opted to go to God's Largest Amusement Park as adults, but all I can say is that it will be a long time before I want to see another Mickey Mouse.
Especially a Mickey Mouse with a price tag stuck to it.
One of the finest opportunities I ever had as an officer was to work in schools.
I have given the impression that I hate television and all it stands for. Not true. I do enjoy some television, but it has to meet my high standards as a person with a brain.
Teenagers aren’t supposed to die.
They’re especially not supposed to die like this.
Phoebe Prince only had two strikes against her, and if you were a normal person, they were not strikes at all.
Three hundred and two people were recorded as living in King County in 1860. That’s hard to believe when you drive around the county today.
How to keep 86,382 good jobs in an area where flood risks have impacted the economic stability in the region is a serious problem. We came up with a creative solution to this crisis when the private “surplus” flood insurance market failed to provide adequate coverage to many businesses in the Green River Valley.
Last month on the “Rachel Maddow” show, Rachel, through the magic of television, called Glenn Beck a hypocrite and a liar. Also for those who may have missed it, Glenn Beck called Rachel Maddow a liar and unpatriotic.
This week at the Kent Reporter, we had a new wrinkle in how we cover professional sports.
The Predators, Kent’s first pro football team, had its home opener last week at the ShoWare Center.
