JC Harris For Des Moines, Washington
City Council, Position #2
[EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter was published on Des Moines Mayor Dave Kaplan’s Facebook page; we have received permission to post it here. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Waterland Blog nor its staff] Well, my “friends” at Comcast sent their standard email with a link to a customer satisfaction survey. On their open-ended
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By Lawrence Kreisman Special to The Seattle Times IT WOULD TAKE many pages to list significant buildings in Seattle that have been lost in the past 170+ years, as natural disasters (fires, earthquakes) and man-made change (regrading, highways, commercial and residential construction) have reshaped the topography, replaced older buildings and filled open space. The historic
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So… the guy at the top holds the tribal flag of the Muckleshoots. There is a group that waits in the water and from time to time they chant. On the shore, there are drummers. When one of the boats approaches, the people in the water greet them and everyone hoists the boat onto the...
Washington Haggen — 1406 Lake Tapps Pkwy E, Auburn Safeway — 101 Auburn Way S, Auburn Albertsons — 2108 W Main St, Battle Ground Safeway — 904 W Main St, Battle Ground QFC — 201 NE State Route 300, Belfair QFC — 10116 NE 8th St, Bellevue QFC — 2636 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue QFC
By The Seattle Times editorial board An education system failing to produce expected outcomes. Transportation projects wildly over budget. Concerns about community safety metastasizing into outright fear. The next governor of Washington will face all these challenges and many more in an atmosphere of increased political polarization and coarsening civic discourse. Of the 28 gubernatorial
... continue reading.by Richard Kennedy President Des Moines Historical Society As someone who lived in Des Moines from 1955 through 1999, I thought I might give a brief history of downtown traffic congestion. Before the Big Catch Plaza, there was a road parallel to the north side of Albertson’s (now Dollar Tree). As such there were two
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This initiative failed
