JC Harris For Des Moines, Washington
City Council, Position #2
Non-partisan. Independent.
Next City Council Meeting is June 6, 6:00PM
Working hard to support local businesses!
An advocate for airport issues!
By Claire Withycombe Seattle Times staff reporter OLYMPIA — A Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled Friday that the law allows Washington state lawmakers to withhold records that are “privileged.” Although the scope of that privilege has yet to be precisely defined, transparency advocates were despondent after Friday’s ruling, worrying that it delivers a sharp
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By Greg Kim Seattle Times staff reporter Five years ago, federal judges ruled it was “cruel and unusual” for cities to fine or arrest homeless people for sleeping outside when they had nowhere else to go. Fast-forwarding to recent months, elected officials in Seattle and along the West Coast are railing against the decision, asking
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By Sandi Doughton Pacific NW magazine writer THREE YEARS AGO, a Washington state senator from Ferndale introduced a bill to study the costs and benefits of breaching the Ballard Locks. Republican Doug Ericksen, who died in 2021, didn’t really expect it to happen. His legislation was a jab at Seattle liberals calling for removal of dams on the
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Being in the Top 10 isn’t always a good thing. Especially when it comes to homelessness. Washington state ranks number nine in the number of unsheltered homeless individuals, or those living on the street, and in the top five of the total number of people experiencing homelessness. The crisis escalated between 2020 and 2022, when that number jumped
... continue reading.The Clarion Inn in Auburn was purchased by the county to house homeless people. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times, 2021) By Kent Hay Special to The Seattle Times When your job is mostly outside — wading through piles of garbage, hiking across acres of forest and brush to check on tents emanating 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.
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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
... 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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By The Seattle Times editorial board Lots of people are confused about the idea of equity, apparently including those at the helm of Seattle Public Schools. Rightly criticized for maintaining a separate program of high-achieving students filled with white and Asian kids, Seattle’s education leaders have chosen not to widen the pipeline into their Highly
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By Tim Carter Tribune Content Agency My college major was geology. At the time I was in school, I had no idea how valuable this degree would be once I became a full-time builder. Not many builders know about soil maps and how to interpret them. Your house has an intimate relationship with the ground:
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