As a Washington State Council on Aging member, I send this letter because November is National Family Caregivers Month. Each year, more of us are caring for a loved one with a chronic condition, disability or simply the frailties of old age.
I am sitting here horrified and angry by the vile and wicked act of the four students who sexually assaulted a special needs student at Juanita High School. Shame on them and on their families.
We’ve always enjoyed reading the local news in the Kirkland Reporter. Yet, I have been increasingly disturbed by the distribution of outright warfare hardware (crossbows, tactical rifles and revolvers) advertised in Cabela’s – an insert to your newspaper. I’m particularly disturbed by the timing of this week’s distribution.
I support Lisa O’Toole for King County District Court Judge. Ms. O’Toole has practiced law for 27 years.
This Tuesday, voters in the 48th District are fortunate to have the opportunity to elect Rep. Cyrus Habib to the State Senate.
If you’ve had the chance to meet Andy Hill, you know how genuine a person he is. As our state senator, he’s been just as genuine in following through on the promises he made when he first ran four years ago.
The city should build on existing plastic-bag recycling efforts, instead of enacting an intrusive and ineffective bag ban that takes money from our wallets, hurts our local merchants and lowers Kirkland’s tax revenue when people shop elsewhere.
I’m supporting Joan McBride for 48th District Legislature and here’s why.
We were surprised by Duane Illg’s negative letter in the Oct. 24 Reporter.
Listening to all the rhetoric of the campaign season you would be led to believe every candidate relentlessly works across the political aisle and is the model of bipartisanship. Frankly, I doubt it.
I have spent 18 years on the Redmond City Council and during that time I have come to realize just how critical the relationship between state government and local government really is. Virtually all powers of cities in Washington are derived from the state legislature.
State Rep. Roger Goodman lied. He did, in fact, drive his children stoned and therefore, knowingly and repeatedly lied to the press and his constituents over the past couple of years.
Fat-free is healthy. But fact-free, like Duane Illg’s letter about Joan McBride, is harmful to voters. Let’s check Illg’s claims about McBride, a 48th District Democrat running for State Representative.
Are you asking, as I am, just who is behind the slick political ads trashing State Senate candidate Matt Isenhower? To date I have found five of these flyers in my snail mailbox in the past ten days. I checked the fine print of each return address. These ads are sent by the Good Government Leadership Council from a post office box in Centralia, Wash. Centralia?
The guest editorial, dated Oct. 8, 2014 written jointly by Larry Springer and Roger Goodman is so peculiar, I am honestly wondering if they actually wrote it themselves. Is it possible that someone on the Democrat Party staff or perhaps Matt Isenhowers’ campaign staff wrote it?
I feel compelled to also submit a Letter to the Editor to share my thoughts about Sen. Andy Hill.
I have never written a letter in to a newspaper before, but I’m doing so now because I believe so strongly in Andy Hill, our first-term 45th District State Senator.
In a lavish display of hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness, California energy billionaire Tom Steyer and Adobe software founder Paul Brainerd, with several environmental special-interest groups, printed and mailed the biggest and fanciest political mailer I’ve ever seen.
Larry Springer has changed. Even when I have disagreed with him on policies, I have respected him as someone willing to work together with his colleagues in the community to do something positive. But then I saw this op-ed he apparently wrote with Roger Goodman.
Larry Springer has represented this area for a long time and I had the opportunity to work with the Kirkland City Council when I served as the chair of one of the Neighborhood Associations. As an elected official I respected his fairness and bipartisanship as a local elected official – until now.