5-8-2001
Letters To The Editor - Things Southern
I just wanted you to know how much I enjoyed your last “Perspective” column about “Things Southern.”
   Living in the South until we were transferred here with the Navy, it brought back memories and made me a little homesick...   (Full Article)
5-8-2001
POINT – COUNTER POINT – FROM THE LEFT
Fixing transportation is key to
improving business climate
By Sen. Betti Sheldon
Boeing is leaving, but not on a jet plane. And not because of Washington’s business climate.

Yes, Boeing is moving 500 of its corporate staff out of state, but the jet maker is NOT moving its existing Washington-based manufacturing operations — or its 80,000 Puget Sound employees — to Texas or anywhere else...   (Full Article)

5-8-2001
POINT – COUNTER POINT – FROM THE RIGHT
Bad business climate contributed
to Boeing move
By Chris Vance, Chairman - Washington State Republican Party
When Boeing announced it was moving its corporate headquarters out of Seattle, Gov. Gary Locke was taken by surprise. He shouldn’t have been. For years, Boeing executives have said that Washington is a difficult place to do business...   (Full Article)
5-8-2001
Preempting Boeing’s next move
By Don C. Brunell, President
Association of Washington Business
Boeing’s announcement that it will move its corporate headquarters from Seattle to Dallas, Denver or Chicago hit the Puget Sound region harder than the Ash Wednesday earthquake. Unlike the Feb. 28 tremor, this one has sent a series of aftershocks reverberating through our state...   (Full Article)
5-8-2001
Study Circles Project moves forward in South Kitsap
Recently, South Kitsap voters passed a four year levy following an intensive educational process by CLASS (Community Leaders Affirming Support for Schools) and others. The group’s perception was that if the majority of the voters knew all the facts they would vote to support funding for our children’s education...   (Full Article)
5-8-2001
Letters To The Editor - Public employee strike
The Washington Federation of State Employees has started its members on rolling walkouts to protest what they feel is too small a raise. But there are a few things missing in the coverage of the issue...   (Full Article)
5-8-2001
Letters To The Editor - Bainbridge and the GMA
Last year the Home Builders Association of Kitsap County challenged Ordinance 2000-13 enacted by the City of Bainbridge Island. The ordinance amended the Critical Areas Ordinance as to density calculations for flexible lot design and density transfers on parcels containing a regulated wetland...   (Full Article)
5-8-2001
Letters To The Editor - Roadside Memorials
I see our Kitsap County Commissioner Chris Endresen has the right vision.

It’s as if Chris hears the same tune and lyrics — Eighteen dead in Kitsap County, four dead in Ohio. Eighty-three dead in Kitsap County, four dead in Ohio...   (Full Article)

5-8-2001
Kitsap County’s Legislative Delegation
A list of the legislators, their phone numbers, and email addresses...   (Full Article)
4-4-2001
Locke a fiscal conservative? Yeah, right
By Adele Ferguson
I couldn’t believe my eyes. There, in the Wall Street Journal, was the latest Cato Institute biennial Fiscal Report of the Governors, listing them in order for their success in cutting taxes and spending in their states...   (Full Article)
4-4-2001
POINT – COUNTER POINT – FROM THE LEFT
Saving The Salmon
By Chris Endresen – Kitsap County Commissioner
I am slightly uncomfortable writing an op-ed piece that addresses the Harvest portion of the ESA since county government has no jurisdiction regarding harvest, but since you asked, I’ll try...   (Full Article)
4-4-2001
POINT – COUNTER POINT – FROM THE RIGHT
Saving The Salmon
Submitted by the Kitsap County Republican Party
Is the government really serious about saving the salmon?
   Actions to save salmon are being directed at severely restricting how property can be developed or restored or maintained...   (Full Article)
4-4-2001
MY TURN
Maybe next year, Clipper
By Rep. Beverly Woods
  Sorry, Clipper Navigation. I thought it was just fine that you applied to provide passenger-only ferry service (POF) between Kingston and Seattle...   (Full Article)
4-4-2001
Letters To The Editor - Food for thought
October 17, 1989: San Francisco is shaken by a devastating earthquake. The State of Washington responds to the needs of our neighbor by providing passenger-only ferries. Residents are able to get to their jobs, schools and medical facilities...   (Full Article)
4-4-2001
Letters To The Editor - Detests Bush
Republicans keep talking about how President Bush represents a change in the character of government. A shift toward a more honorable and moral kind of leadership...   (Full Article)
4-4-2001
Letters To The Editor - Passenger Ferry Dilemma
After nearly eight years in the design and procurement process and many millions of dollars expended, Kitsap/Seattle residents finally had a modern, high-speed, passenger-only ferry (POF) system in operation...   (Full Article)
4-4-2001
New leadership position for Inslee
U.S. Rep Jay Inslee has received his new House Subcommittee assignments. They include:
Committee on Resources:
• Inslee is now the highest ranking Democrat (“Ranking Member”) on the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
• Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Committee on Financial Services:
• Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, Securities, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises.
• Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
3-6-2001
Caving in to the tribes — again
Adele Ferguson
Guess how the state has decided to deal with the fact that most of the Indian tribes in Washington don’t collect and remit taxes on reservation cigarette sales to non-tribal members, despite being ordered to do so three times by the U.S. Supreme Court...   (Full Article)
3-6-2001
POINT – COUNTER POINT – FROM THE RIGHT
Seeking a safe harbor for the ferries
By Rep. Beverly Woods, R-23rd District
Our ferries are in rough waters today because a wave of interest in $30 vehicle license tabs swept away the revenue source we’d lined up to operate and expand the ferry system...   (Full Article)
3-6-2001
POINT – COUNTER POINT – FROM THE LEFT
Standing up for Kitsap ferry service
By Sen. Betti Sheldon D-23rd District
It has been a long and choppy crossing.
Since my days as executive director of the Bremerton Chamber of Commerce in the late 1980s, I have been working with the business community to get one fundamental message to Olympia...   (Full Article)
3-6-2001
POINT – COUNTER POINT
Olympia: No room for new thinking
The Business Journal’s Editorial Response:
Legislators on both side of the aisle continue to blame I-695 and the fact that it basically negated Referendum 49, for the ferry funding mess. And they are right. It sure doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out. The question is, what are they going to do about it...   (Full Article)
3-6-2001
A Conversation With… Charlotte Garrido
Charlotte Garrido was elected county commissioner in 1996 — at the absolute height of Kitsap’s battle over growth management. A staunch environmentalist and member of the Kitsap Citizen’s for Rural Preservation, as one of the people who challenged the comprehensive plan the county had submitted to the state she was in the thick of the fight...   (Full Article)
3-6-2001
Letters To The Editor - Charter Ideas
I would like to propose some charter provisions outside the nine dots of other Washington counties’ charters...   (Full Article)
3-6-2001
Letters To The Editor - Transportation
I visited our state capitol on Jan. 9 with a contingent of Realtors from Kitsap County. This marked the first legislative day, and we had a chance to meet with the representatives of the 3 districts that cover our area...   (Full Article)
3-6-2001
Letters To The Editor - Campaign Promises
In her first campaign for office, Commissioner Chris Endresen promised to stop the fighting between the county, cities, state and tribes. In this last election Ms. Endresen stated that she had accomplished this task. It would be nice if this were true...   (Full Article)
3-6-2001
Letters To The Editor - Transportation
We have killed another citizen on our Tacoma Narrows Bridge in a traffic crash. It’s not the first, second or third time in the past few years that we have killed a citizen on that bridge in a traffic crash...   (Full Article)
2-2-2001
It’s just a $3 toll. What’s the big deal?
Adele Ferguson - Political Columnist
So here come the Gig Harbor folks again, bringing another lawsuit aimed at blocking the construction of a parallel Tacoma Narrows bridge...   (Full Article)
2-2-2001
Hey, Mister... Drop That Grass Seed!
By Don C. Brunell, President
Association of Washington Business
Imagine living in a country where the government dictates what kind of grass you can grow in your yard. Imagine having to get permission from the state to repair or remodel your home. Imagine living in a place where your life savings can be wiped out with the stroke of a pen. Welcome to Washington state...   (Full Article)
2-2-2001
My Turn:
A Guest Editorial by Rep. Beverly Woods
The 2001 Legislative session began Jan. 8 with the House of Representatives again tied with 49 Republican and 49 Democrat members. The parties share an arrangement, each appointing a Speaker of the House and chair for every House committee. The committees also have an even number of members from each party...   (Full Article)