JC Harris For Des Moines, Washington
City Council, Position #2
Non-partisan. Independent.
Next City Council Meeting is June 5, 2025
Working hard to support local businesses!
An advocate for airport issues!
At the 25 July 2024 City Council meeting, the City put up a slide contradicting some of my concerns over the 2006 Lid Lift. I told staff months ago that when the previous (2006) levy lid lift passed that it had led to more police in the first year, but that police staffing had dropped
... continue reading.Normally, I do not bother people more than once a week. However, after hearing from a bajillion residents, I have two significant concerns about the accuracy of the tax levy lid lift pamphlet you’ve all received from the City which I’d like to call to your attention. First Concern: the graphic The bar chart indicates
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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 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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By Mike Lindblom Seattle Times staff reporter Traffic Lab is a Seattle Times project that digs into the region’s transportation issues to explore the policies and politics that determine how we get around and how billions of dollars in public money are spent. KENT — Millions of travelers have glimpsed a huge Sound Transit bridge taking
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https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/databases Look up 2023 salaries for City of Lakewood WA employees Staff Report Updated May 27, 2024 1:26 PM Whether you’re being hired or already have a job, at some point you’re going to be in a salary negotiation situation. Take these steps for better negotiating. By Meta Viers This database shows base salary and
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Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS) A former probation officer in Pierce County is accused of having a sexual relationship with a client who was assigned to him. Prosecutors have charged Mario Joseph Tropiano, 39, with three counts of first-degree custodial sexual misconduct, court records show. Charges say that between October 2022 and October
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Uri Berliner, a senior business editor at NPR, says he started sounding the alarm internally when he noticed a bias creep into the network’s coverage. (Pete Kiehart for The Free Press) I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the
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