King County Executive Kurt Triplett wants action.
Last fall, a dear friend’s aunt died of Alzheimer’s. The event prompted many conversations about end-of-life care, both for her aunt and for ourselves.
I voted for hope. What I’m getting is a new kind of tyranny, the tyranny of fiscal irresponsibility, burdensome taxation…
The Nation’s report card arrived last week.
My shoes got muddy last week. Spit-shined, black dress shoes. Walking through Golden Gate National Cemetery near San Francisco, 161 acres overlooking the bay, waves of white marble markers riding the contours of the terrain.
Two strong, capable women picked for our new President’s cabinet promise to deliver a big chunk of the promised change: Immigration reform. I envision a significant impact on our state, our region, and on Kirkland.
Eastside volunteers counted 158 homeless people out in the open in 30-degree weather in Kirkland, Bellevue and Redmond early last Friday morning, including approximately 50 residents of Tent City 3 in Bellevue.
Every homeless person has a mother and a father. They have a story. Friends, siblings, relatives. Successes and losses, joy and suffering, plenty and want, health and sickness. It’s never “what you see is what you get.”
If you’re receiving Social Security, you’re an accessory to a Ponzi scheme. The rest of us are the suckers.
