JC Harris For Des Moines, Washington
City Council, Position #2
Non-partisan. Independent.
Next City Council Meeting is May 22, 2025
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 Steve Hunter Monday, September 11, 2023 3:58pm If the words of six Kent City Council candidates are an accurate indication, voters might be voting on higher taxes next year to pay for more police officers. The six candidates for three council positions agreed during a Sept. 7 Kent Chamber of Commerce forum that more Kent
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By Lawrence Kreisman Special to The Seattle Times HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU gone into a commercial or civic building, a restaurant or a newly remodeled shop in an older building and looked up at the ceiling, only to face galvanized metal HVAC ducts and an array of variously colored pipes? Or looked down at the
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Sep. 4, 2022 at 7:00 am Updated Sep. 4, 2022 at 1:29 pm 1 of 7 | Amara Erickson, 5, left, smiles as she plays her first game of pickleball at Lakeridge Playfield on July 2, 2022. Pickleball is the official sport of the state of Washington. The game was invented on Bainbridge Island in 1965.
... continue reading.By Cathy Duchamp – Assistant Managing Editor, Puget Sound Business Journal Aug 28, 2023 Thirteen Republican state attorneys general sent a letter in July to the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, including Microsoft, Costco and Boeing, reminding them not to discriminate on the basis of race, “whether under the label of ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ or otherwise.”
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The Seattle Times editorial board Seven years ago, a group of prominent Washington business leaders known as the Washington Roundtable crunched the data and announced that young people would need to beef up their post-high school game significantly to participate in this state’s booming high-tech economy. Assessing their own industries, the business leaders — including
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By David Kroman Seattle Times staff reporter The 2019 kickoff of Washington state’s hybrid-electric ferry program couldn’t have been more jubilant. Gov. Jay Inslee, standing inside Vigor Shipyards on Harbor Island, promised a green “revolution” that would begin right there, at the mouth of the Duwamish River, and cascade across industries around the globe. By his side
... continue reading.By Greg Kim Seattle Times staff reporter In 2021, the Washington Legislature passed a law that attempted to stop cities from banning homelessness facilities. Yet last month, Des Moines fined the city’s only existing homeless shelter and asked it to shut down. Earlier this year, Federal Way denied a permit for a fully funded shelter.
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SR 509 Completion Project – Summer 2023 Update Pacific Northwest summers are unrivaled. It’s the time of the year when we get outside, bask in the sun’s warm rays, and check off some major construction milestones. This season, the SR 509 Completion Project team is continuing to perform major construction activities that will bring multi-modal
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By Neetish Basnet – Data reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Aug 3, 2023 Retirement in the Evergreen State is a tough sell to a briskly aging population, according to a new study by Bankrate that ranked Washington as the fourth-worst state to retire. Affordability, crime and weather drew down Washington’s feasibility as a retiree haven. The state dropped
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