I write in response to letters that are coming in opposing I-594, the measure that would require background checks on all gun purchases.
Juanita residents would like Kirkland to have an aquatic center, just not at the sites now being actively considered.
I recently received a letter from the city of Kirkland informing me I need to obtain a business license because I keep myself busy in the evenings making stuff.
I noticed Diane Meehl’s letter concerning Initiative 594 in the Aug. 29 edition of the Kirkland Reporter.
During the past week, the attorney for Lobsang Dargey and Path America called the city of Kirkland and left a message seeming to indicate that her client had already gone through design review and thus should not have to go through a design review hearing again.
The letter from Dan Michael in the Sept. 5 issue of the Reporter concerning I-594 needs further comment.
According to LetsFreeCongress.com in the 2012 US House elections, 95 percent of the candidates that outspent their opponents won, while 1 percent of the donors contributed 68 percent of the campaign funding.
This temporary victory in the use of this property [Potala Village] will be short-lived, if the owners elect to take the matter to higher courts.
Sept. 7-13 is National Diaper Need Awareness Week, do you know about the diaper need nationally… and here at home?
While I certainly can understand the previous Sammamish writer’s passionate pleas for the passage of Initiative 594 from her perspective, she is sadly misinformed or indifferent to what the 18-page initiative actually says.
I wanted to counter the falsely simplistic letter to the editor on Aug. 29 – “I-594 Will Save Lives in Our State” – that tried to explain a massive 18 page gun-control initiative in 18 seconds.
The 2014 Kirkland Summer Concert Series came to a close a couple of weeks ago, and now that the dust has settled – wow, we are feeling so very grateful.
So many of us feel powerless to affect change in the midst of turmoil at home and across the globe. But there is something we can do to save lives right here in Washington – vote “yes” on Initiative 594 this fall.
As I sat in traffic trying to drive up the I-5 north, I bemoaned the lack of funding for our state’s infrastructure. About 67 percent of all of Washington’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition according to infrastructurereportcard.org, and needs an estimated $6.3 billion to remedy all infrastructural weaknesses.
I’m sure you are familiar with the quote “Be the change you wish to see in the world”?
This letter is in response to Larry Brickman’s “Tougher DUI laws needed” in the Aug. 16 issue of the Kirkland Reporter.
USDA Wildlife Services has been lethally removing Canada Geese in the Puget Sound area for 13 years under an interlocal agreement between several cities and entities within the region.
Twice a day I use a walk across Northeast 132nd Street. It is common for drivers not to stop to let me cross, or not to stop while I’m in the crosswalk. Some go so far as to speed up to quickly get by.
Conservative ideology is based on protecting rich people from having to pay for the benefits they reap from government: peace at home, government contracts, stable markets, laws, infrastructure, an educated work force, research, potable water, public health, etc.
We constantly see in the news where a driver, high on marijuana or under the influence of alcohol, hits a pedestrian or another car, killing someone. They are charged with driving under the influence or vehicular homicide. They get a few years in prison and then are free to live their lives.