JC Harris For Des Moines, Washington
City Council, Position #2
Non-partisan. Independent.
Next City Council Meeting is January 9, 2025
Working hard to support local businesses!
An advocate for airport issues!
By Jackie Varriano Seattle Times food writer Visiting a restaurant on its second night open can be risky business. I’ve worked in these restaurants. Ones where people try for weeks to get a peek behind paper-covered windows, anticipation (and expectations) running high. Restaurants where the first week is a blur that feels like one of Dante’s
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The state Department of Transportation may demolish the Olympic Inn & Suites in Port Angeles to replace a culvert, in its program to save salmon. But White Creek has 10 other barriers upstream. “It’s the classic poster child of what we shouldn’t do,” said Rep. Steve Tharinger, D-Port Townsend. (Nick Wagner / The Seattle Times)
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By Michael Riordan Special to The Seattle Times The booming electricity demands of the nascent artificial intelligence gold rush boggle the mind and will likely hit ordinary ratepayers in the pocketbook if nothing is done to mitigate the downsides of this impending technological revolution. According to a recent series of articles in The Seattle Times, co-published with ProPublica,
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By The Seattle Times editorial board How Washington’s gas prices compare with West Coast states nation How much did Washington‘s Climate Commitment Act impact gas prices? Here’s how much the average price of a gallon of gas has changed in Washington, as well as Oregon, California and across the nation since the law took effect.
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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
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SEATAC — When Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer and her mother spotted the leafy bundles of amaranth at a new SeaTac farmers market, they could hardly believe it. “Both she and I looked at this like, ‘Oh, we got to get bunches of this, it’s really rare,’ ” said Mehta-Neugebauer, a SeaTac resident who primarily cooks South Asian
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FILE – A flare burns at a well pad Aug. 26, 2021, near Watford City, N.D. The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs in 2023, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) SETH BORENSTEIN The Associated Press The levels
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By JERRY CORNFIELD Washington State Standard Drivers in Washington state may soon face better odds of getting caught on camera if they run a red light, speed through a work zone on a city street or fail to stop at a crosswalk. A new law signed Tuesday makes it possible for cities and counties to deploy traffic
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By Anna Patrick The Seattle Times’ Project Homeless is supported by BECU, Campion Foundation, Raikes Foundation and Seattle Foundation. The Seattle Times maintains editorial control over Project Homeless content. Burien is taking King County to court over claims that the Sheriff’s Office is violating a contract with the city by not enforcing a key part of the city’s
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By Danny Westneat Seattle Times columnist When the final spending plans to keep the federal government running were released this past week, a few members of Congress pronounced themselves appalled to find they were loaded up with “pork.” “Earmarks are evil,” wrote a South Carolina Republican, before enumerating lists of pet projects that the conservative
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