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Questions about Growth Management
By Jan Angel,
Kitsap County Commissioner, District 2 |
| Each of us has a unique perspective. Each of us has experiences that, through constructive sharing, could positively contribute to our collective society. However, it’s human nature to get so caught up in wining or losing that we forget that all opinions have a critical stake in the future of our community... (Full Article) |
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POLITICS
Are the tribes really sovereign nations or not?
By Adele Fergusen |
| My mail these days, with Thanksgiving just behind us and Christmas and New Years just ahead, contains more than a few solicitations from a group of citizens who should not be in need of a handout... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Bainbridge Shorelines Case |
| The Bainbridge Island City Council is confused by the language and the affect of the Shoreline Hearings Board (SHB) ruling in the Stafford case. This is understandable if they are trying to interpret the meaning of the ruling without reading the entire 33 pages... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Broadband Strategy |
| The news that Boeing has scrapped its telework project at OC’s Poulsbo campus provided insight into the approach regarding a wide-reaching initiative, which has many tentacles and subtexts... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
SK Park Development |
| I was distressed to see former County Commissioner Charlotte Garrido, who is now in charge of the South Kitsap Community Park board, doing her best to block the development of a skating rink and skateboard park, as well as several other recreation opportunities for the kids in South Kitsap... (Full Article) |
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POLITICS
Voting on the ergonomics rule
By Adele Fergusen |
| With the decision on where Boeing will build the 7E7 yet to be made, megalopolis business folk shuddered to hear its Commercial Airlines chief Alan Mulally tell a luncheon crowd that, when it comes to Washington as a place to do business, “I think we suck.... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Telecom |
| I was quite pleased to read such a comprehensive article in your October issue regarding the tremendous inroads achieved by the KREDC’s Telecommunications Committee. I’d like to take it a step further, in conformance with our mission to increase the opportunity for family-wage, community-based jobs...beginning with our many volunteers... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Passenger ferries |
| I oppose the November ballot measure increasing Kitsap Transit’s take on the sales tax again from 8/10 of one percent to 1.1 percent plus levying 3/10 of one percent motor vehicle excise tax... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Democrats |
| Some observations I’ve noted about Democrats over the last 40 years since becoming a Republican... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Vote Seratt |
| I am asking for your Seratt vote for Fire District 7 Commissioner, Position 4. It’s been my privilege to talk with many of our South Kitsap residents, answering questions and listening to their concerns and interests for Fire District 7... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Adele’s Language |
| One idea that exemplifies the best in American ideology is how we strive to judge people by their actions and not by superficial characteristics that are a happenstance of birth... (Full Article) |
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POLITICS
Patty Murray, geoducks and David Letterman
By Adele Fergusen |
| ITEM While most of the nation was stooped in silence on the morning of Sept. 11 to commemorate the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks of that day, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray was holding a $1,000-a-plate fund-raising breakfast in the nation’s Capitol... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
...A Letter FROM The Editor |
| From time to time, we get inquiries from our readers as well as from industry spokespeople about our policies concerning the submission of guest opinion pieces. The requests from industry seem to be especially prevelant during legislative sessions... (Full Article) |
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State’s ten point program is a good start…
but only a start
By Don C. Brunell, President
Association of Washington Business |
| Recently, the state’s Office of Trade and Economic Development (OTED) published a list of ten recommendations to attract more businesses to Washington State. OTED issued the list in response to criticism from the nation’s top site selection companies that Washington is bad for business because of its high taxes and excessive regulations... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Construction |
| I don’t want to confuse you with the facts, but scheduling highway construction projects for the summer is NOT because the state government doesn’t care about business — it’s because the DOT is trying to get the work done in a minimal amount of time for a minimal amount of money... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Scamming the scammer |
| Regarding your 8/1/03 story, State files suit against Marketing Systems of America; You might be interested to know that Randy Hirsch, the owner of Marketing Systems of America, dba Accountants Marketing Enterprises is now in Santa Monica, Calif. running the exact same business that was shut down by the Washington Attorney General... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Terrorism |
| I hope you get a ton of mail protesting Jim Kendall’s hate-mongering piece in your September issue. Our society is as much endangered by his kind of extremism as it is by the many other types which exist... (Full Article) |
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POLITICS
How dirty will the dirty tricksters really get?
By Adele Fergusen |
| If you wonder why many good people you know or know of, shun running for political office, watch the Arnold Schwarzenegger campaign and you’ll find your answer... (Full Article) |
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Tunnel can improve downtown quality of life
By Congressman Norm Dicks |
| We are about to take another important step forward in the effort to revitalize the downtown Bremerton area by improving traffic circulation and pedestrian access along and across Pacific Avenue, just as many new building developments are happening there... (Full Article) |
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MY TURN
What did YOU do in the great
counter-terrorism war, daddy?
By Jim Kendall |
| They look exactly like the guy next door. They talk “American.” They eat in our restaurants, send their kids to our schools, go to the movies, and hold down well-paying jobs. Many have advanced college degrees, work in high tech or white collar jobs, and are pleasant and friendly. And they want to kill you. And your wife and kids. In their world, killing unbelievers is not a sin, but a holy duty... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Impact Fees |
| The Kitsap County Association of Realtors promotes the Quality of Life program in conjunction with the Washington Association of Realtors. One of five principles, namely, “Providing Housing Opportunities” addresses safe, decent, and affordable housing... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Impact Fees |
| There seems to be a problem of the one and the many prevailing here in Kitsap County as a pernicious “What’s in it for me” attitude begins to infiltrate throughout the entire area... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Impact Fees |
| I’d like to comment on both your editorial concerning Commissioner Patty Lent’s vote on impact fees, as well as the attacks on Business Journal Editor Lary Coppola in The Sun by Bob Dietz in his column and more recently in a letter to the editor from Fran Moyer... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Bainbridge Shorelines |
| On August 6 Judge Costello signed the Judgment making the Bainbridge Shoreline Moratorium invalid. The City of Bainbridge Island has appealed the decision and worse yet, is illegally refusing to accept applications for permits... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Tunnel Project |
| Commentary on Congressman Dicks' delivery of pork to Bremerton should question his priorities. There is no better example to demonstrate what is wrong with the system than to examine them in seeking federal money to dig a tunnel under downtown Bremerton... (Full Article) |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
War & Peace |
| Several Al Qaeda cell groups and supporters have been uncovered in the Northwest, some with ties to the political establishment. One cell group in Vancouver had a leader who worked for the Mayor of Portland. Another terrorist from Seattle worked for a State legislator. Others were prominent at the University of Idaho. And the first Al Qaeda terrorist apprehended was in Port Angeles. He was headed to Seattle... (Full Article) |
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POLITICS
Did Locke make the right decision?
By Adele Fergusen |
Early in Gov. Gary Locke’s first term, I started keeping a list titled, “Reasons why Gary Locke will be re-elected in 2000.”
The complaints had already begun yes, from me too — about his lack of leadership in Olympia, and not just from Republicans but Democrats, privately, of course... (Full Article) |
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State’s ten-point program is a good start…
but only a start
By Don C. Brunell, President
Association of Washington Business |
| Recently, the state’s Office of Trade and Economic Development (OTED) published a list of ten recommendations to attract more businesses to Washington state. OTED issued the list in response to criticism from the nation’s top site selection companies that Washington is bad for business because of its high taxes and excessive regulations... (Full Article) |
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