JC Harris For Des Moines, Washington
City Council, Position #2
Non-partisan. Independent.
Next City Council Meeting is December 5, 2024
Working hard to support local businesses!
An advocate for airport issues!
Articles from around the area, including re-prints from various newspapers (provided under Fair-Use provision.) These are information only, which means that many, Many, MANY of these do not represent my point of view. (Seriously, they don’t.) I just want you to know what’s out there being discussed by electeds that concern Des Moines.
By David S. Knight and Kendall Fujioka Special to The Times Washington’s K-12 school finance system remains broken just six years after an overhaul effort. And state education leaders have demonstrated a lack of urgency to address the fundamental problems. The system is not progressive with respect to student race, ethnicity or economic status. While
... continue reading.1 of 7 | A passenger photographing pigeon guillemots off Cypress Island. (Bryony Angell) By Bryony Angell Special to The Seattle Times Typical of outdoor enthusiasts ready for a mid-June weekend in Western Washington, my friend Roniq Bartanen and I were dressed in seasonably appropriate rain gear and woolens. Binoculars and camera in hand, we joined
... continue reading.By Dick Clever Special to The Times “The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies that serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know.
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March 10, 2023 at 2:03 pm Updated March 10, 2023 at 3:03 pm By Kate Riley Times editorial page editor Just over 50 years ago, Washington voters approved Initiative 276, which demonstrated the citizenry’s righteous desire to keep tabs on their elected officials. With that vote, the state Public Records Act established the right of the
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March 12, 2023 at 6:00 am Updated March 14, 2023 at 12:01 am 1 of 22 | Jeff Rooklidge, a science teacher at Wahkiakum High School, talks about the equipment students have to use when they work on experiments. The faucets are not necessary because the sinks no longer work. Rooklidge has made… (Ellen M.
... continue reading.Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood with the Magnolia neighborhood in the distance as seen from the Space Needle. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times, 2021) By Jon Talton Columnist This may be the year of aggressive efforts to increase the housing supply in Washington and Seattle. A total of 13 bills are moving through the Legislature
... continue reading.South Sound Enlarge The city of Fife is embracing more multifamily development as it looks to accommodate growth. SHAWNA DE LA ROSA | PSBJ IN THIS ARTICLE Banking & Financial ServicesIndustry Derek MathesonPerson Chris LarsonPerson By Shawna De La Rosa – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Feb 8, 2023 Listen to this article 3 min A 126-unit mixed-use
... continue reading.Residential Real Estate Percentage of all-cash home sales grows Enlarge All-cash home purchases increases in Seattle metro ANTHONY BOLANTE | PSBJ IN THIS ARTICLE Banking & Financial ServicesIndustry MortgagesTopic Housing MarketTopic RedfinCompany Sheharyar BokhariPerson By Neetish Basnet – Data reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Feb 24, 2023 Listen to this article 2 min Amid skyrocketing interest
... continue reading.By Seattle Times staff The Great Indoors beckons this time of year. February is also Seattle Museum Month, when those who stay at a participating downtown Seattle hotel can get half-price admission to participating museums. What better time, then, to visit our region’s wealth of museums? Here in the Puget Sound area, we’ve got museums for
... continue reading.Charles M. Blow: America, right-wing censors, and the ‘battle for the next century’ Sun., Feb. 26, 2023 Twitter Email Reddit Charles M. BlowNew York Times Chris Rufo, the man who orchestrated the attack on critical race theory, underscored a new focus earlier this month. “Conservatives must move the fight from ideology to bureaucracy,” he tweeted.
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