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Letters To The Editor - Good acts recognized |
| Good acts should be recognized, acknowledged and communicated. Recently, I visited an elderly couple with very slippery stairs. The stairs are vital to them, since it’s the only way they can get to their cars in the garage. I pressure-washed the steps, but that didn’t last; the shade from nearby trees ensured they would always sport the green tinge of algae. The usual solutions won’t work, since these stairs won’t even be dry until summer... (Full Article) |
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POLITICS
Scary time to be a legislator
By Adele Fergusen |
| Not that Gov. Gary Locke’s state of the state address to the Legislature was any spellbinder, but it was surprising that it was carried live by only one radio station, KVI, and the Olympia public TV network, considering it was only 21 minutes long... (Full Article) |
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The fur should fly over lynx hoax
By Don C. Brunell, President
Association of Washington Business |
| We need an immediate — and independent — investigation into whether seven state and federal biologists planted false evidence during an Endangered Species Act (ESA) survey in two Washington forests... (Full Article) |
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Political Cartoon |
| Political cartoon by Will Lloyd...... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - Citizen’s voices |
| There have been so many letters in the papers for and against the Charter. Although the issue will have probably been decided by the time this is printed, many against are asking why this is so important to this county... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - Snubbing Angel |
| The Kitsap County Republican Party denounces the snubbing of Commissioner Angel, South Kitsap, from serving her turn as Chair of the Board of County Commissioners as nothing but partisan politics. The commissioners are co-equal elected officials and when actions of this nature are taken the action can only be seen as not only snubbing Angel and South Kitsap constituents but all of Kitsap County citizens... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - Doesn’t get it |
| Has pettiness become that prevalent in Kitsap County that a housekeeping task of appointing a Chair for the Board of County Commissioners becomes front-page news... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - Abuse of Power? |
Abuse of power has been proven to be the cancer of a democratic society. This cancer is magnified when the abuse is based on unqualified, assumed power.
Both Commissioner Endresen and The Sun regularly engage in the abuse of power. One is entrusted with the sacred duty of reporting news and events in a fair and unbiased fashion, the other is entrusted with the sacred duty of representing, and protecting the rights of, Kitsap County tax-paying citizens... (Full Article)
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Letters To The Editor - Affordable Housing? |
If you thought housing in North Kitsap has been getting more expensive relative to the cost of living you are right, just look at these numbers.
The local Seattle/Tacoma/Bremerton area inflation rate has increased by 9 percent from 1998 to 2001. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 12 percent during this same time... (Full Article)
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Letters To The Editor - Government Center |
| Botkin’s and Endresen’s plan to force county offices into downtown Bremerton demonstrates partisan willfulness over common sense. This fiasco will cost millions of dollars for a building, which should be serving the people who pay for it... (Full Article) |
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Did Endresen and Botkin conspire against Angel?
Sure looks that way
By Adele Ferguson |
| Ironically, County Commissioners Chris Endresen and Tim Botkin may have ensured wiping out their own jobs with passage of the new charter neither wants, because of the royal screwing-over they gave their Republican cohort on the board, Jan Angel... (Full Article) |
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Political Cartoon |
| Political cartoon by Will Lloyd...... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| Democrat Party Chairman John Morgan says he is opposed to by-district elections and non-partisan offices because it included the opportunity for "Republicans to win more council seats." Give me a break... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - Charter Myths vs. Reality |
| I was proud to serve as one of the 21 elected Freeholders during the last year and am equally proud of the product we crafted. The Freeholder group was certainly opinionated and diverse; as a result I was pleasantly surprised by the degree of consensus that was achieved around the many complex issues... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| I attended and took notes at all Freeholder meetings for six months. I find Sherry Appleton’s statements against the charter contradictory and hypocritical to arguments she made throughout the charter development process... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| I'm more determined to vote in the charter after reading the opponent's attempt to impugn charter supporters and mislead the public. This is a governance document that cannot affect any ordinance or land use plan. Read the charter. It doesn't give anybody an advantage. It is a good and fair charter... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| There are so many letters for and against the Charter. Many against are asking why this is so important to this county... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| The proposed charter does not abrogate any powers given to the county's people by the state constitution. It delineates how county government will accomplish the county's business by delegating these powers to a county council, county executive and the voters, and in so doing, gives the voters a direct voice regarding their governance... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - Commissioners |
Our County Commissioners have been truthful and they’ve also misled us!
In 1998 when Kitsap adopted our new Comprehensive Plan to meet the State Growth Management Act’s required deadlines, Commissioner Endresen said that it “might not be a good plan,” which was a very correct statement... (Full Article)
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| Recently there have been a number of letter writers stating that they will not vote for the new Home Rule county charter government, regardless of the obvious improvements, if the commissioners are elected by district... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| Arguing that five council districts in Kitsap County is the same as nine council districts in Bremerton is like equating apples to oranges. A county council district will have around 46,000 people, more than the entire city of Bremerton while a Bremerton city council district has approximately 4,000 people... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| The Freeholders have released a draft of a Charter for Kitsap County, (www.kitsapgov.com/freehldr), that is well done and makes our County government more representative to the citizenry, improves efficiency, restores county employee morale, establishes the citizens additional rights for better control of our County government, and will suit us well for the 21st Century... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| Most will agree that nothing man has ever done is perfect and that change is the only constant in life. Yet today, Kitsap County is stuck with a form of government, designed in the 19th Century and frankly, little about it has changed since then... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| Recently, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) decided that it would not appeal United States District Court Judge Michael Hogan's ruling on salmon. Judge Hogan ruled that unless NMFS could show that wild Coho salmon and hatchery Coho salmon are genetically different, all Coho salmon must be counted. This directly affects the listing of the species under the Endangered Species Act... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| Did you know that Kitsap has a severe disadvantage when competing to bring new businesses and family wage jobs to the county? When people want to invest big money to create jobs, they want to know that local government will welcome them... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
Approving the charter in February is a no-brainer.
The way things have been in the past, we had to vote for President, Vice President, Senator, Congressman, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Auditor, State Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Insurance Commissioner, Commissioner of Public Lands, State Senator, State Representatives, before finally finding the candidates for County offices. How do people with short attention spans manage... (Full Article)
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| I want to be represented on the County Council by somebody from my part of the county, who will be chosen by me and my neighbors. We have a much better chance to have the best person in office if we know as much about them as possible. That is the way our charter reads and I like it... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
Please vote NO on the charter.
Representative government is not perfect, but it works better than most. The proposed Kitsap County Charter reduces representation. The proposed Charter places most power in a single elective office, that of the Executive... (Full Article)
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| The proposed Kitsap County Charter is a dangerously flawed proposal. It was created by a conservative majority of Freeholders to overcome the will of the majority of voters in Kitsap County. Which is exactly why the far right wing of the Republican Party is campaigning on behalf of the proposal... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| What would you think if somebody's salary increased by a factor of four over a twenty year period? What if the job hadn't changed? Suppose this person was the one who raised his own pay... (Full Article) |
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
I will vote for adopting the new County Charter for it will reduce the demand for property taxes.
By having County and junior taxing district elections at the same time, it shifts part of the cost of the junior taxing district elections, such as school boards and ports, to the County... (Full Article)
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
I'm Voting yes!
Mr. Bock of Poulsbo has it all wrong.
First, in adding two seats to our Council, we do not add additional salary. The salaries of the three existing commissioners was totaled and then divided by five to get the salaries of the five council members... (Full Article)
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Letters To The Editor - The Charter |
| Some of the most important issues in the debate over the proposed county charter are voters' rights to referendum, agenda petition and performance audits. These rights are not currently held by voters in Kitsap County... (Full Article) |
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Gearing up for the 2002 legislative session
By Adele Ferguson |
| It isn’t truthful, you know, to say that the Democrats are in full control in Olympia so just about anything they want goes... (Full Article) |
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