Archive Fourth Corner Issues Here August 6th 2024 at 9:22 am PDT Last Chance to vote today!! July 15th 2024 at 1:28 pm PDT Brian Heywood on Fear of the electorate, Local Initiative runs into roadblock to get on the ballot. June 29th 2024 at 8:44 am PDT Resolution at Whatcom County Council Considers energy choices for citizens. Last week for Signing Petition See Locations June 12th 2024 at 5:40 am PDT ...
Do you know your Superior Court Judges... many never appear on the ballot. Trooper Gadd THE way Superior Court Judges are elected came to light recently, to this reporter, in the case of a state trooper that was killed on the Freeway in Marysville. A suspect in the case just had his bail reduced from $1,000,000 to $100,000 by Judge Richard Okrent in Snohomish County. This suspect was in Snohomish County jail ...
John Lesow Guest Writer “Planners on Both Sides of the Border are on the Same Page…And it’s the Wrong Page.” At their April 24 meeting at the Bellingham Yacht Club, the Bellingham City Club hosted a pro-development panel discussing the pressing issue of “Balancing Policy, Population and Preservation”. At issue were the recent legislative edicts from Olympia, demanding more housing density in Bellingham and prohibiting Single Family Zoning. The Washington State legislation, ...
New downtown offices for Public Safety to be manned to help with down town homeless problems.
Challenger Raul Garcia of Yakima. Received 36% of the Respondents to the poll. WEB SITE Challenger Raul Garcia of Yakima. Received 36% of the Respondents to the poll. WEB SITE Incumbent Maria Cantwell of Seattle. Received 44% of the Respondents to the Poll WEB SITE New State Poll Shows Surprising Results for Challengers this Fall A new poll released this week by Echelon Insights and sponsored by Concerned Taxpayers of ...
In the News In The News As expected, the South Whidbey Fire/EMS District is putting a levy lid lift measure on the ballot in August. Look for a flood of information about why you should give them more money… and very little information on why you should not. (At the Project, we have no opinion on the matter — we generally like fire fighters and medics — but we would like to occasionally ...
BY ALLEN MCPHEETERS And now, the news. Let’s start with those legislative updates. The session ended on Thursday night, so we have the final scorecard for our 10th District legislators. Sen. Ron Muzzall, R-10 Sen. Ron Muzzall (R-Oak Harbor): Four of Muzzall’s bills were delivered to the Governor for his signature this week. With the five bills he had signed last year, Muzzall wins the trophy for most bills passed in ...
How did Skagit County Complete their Justice Center Project. The slides below highlight the process. Beginning with the passage of the proposition to build the Justice Center until Finishing around the ribbon cutting in July 2017 was just less than 4 years for the $62,602,000 Project. This made Skagit County the First County in the Fourth Corner to build a modern jail in their community. The leaders in Skagit County got the job done. ...
CHAD MAGENDANZ IS RUNNING FOR OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION CHAD MAGENDANZ STATEMENT A recent The Seattle Times headline read, "Cheerleading mediocrity is not good enough for WA’s education department," but our current chief of schools is still "the guy who high-fives kids plodding along in the slow lane and assures everyone that all is well." (9/17/2023) Today's hearing on Initiative 2081(Parent's Bill of Rights) showed that parents across the state are building momentum for ...
By SIMON SEFZIK sefzik Simon Sefzik is a former Washington state senator for the 42nd Legislative District and now works as a director for Project 42, a nonprofit aiming to build a durable infrastructure to improve the course of Washington. In 1912, Washington state pioneered “direct democracy” as one of the first to formalize an initiative and referendum process, allowing citizens to organize and directly create and reform laws. This gave a ...
