Public safety cuts are necessary
By Dow Constantine
How would cutting 100 Sheriff's deputies affect police response times? How would a reduction of 30 deputy prosecutors impact our ability to put criminal suspects on trial?
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Opinion
County budget meltdown
Mon, 06/16/08
It woud be easy to simply blame our old whipping boy, Tim Eyman, for the apparent disaster looming over the King County 2009 budget, but that would be too simple and wrong.
A couple of weeks ago King County Executive Ron Sims made official…MORE
Koins for Kenya Samburu
Mon, 06/09/08
Honoring Tim St. Clair
By Rinda T. Hayes
Three months it's been, since the ravages of pancreatic cancer took my friend, Tim St. Clair. I had watched as it had turned him into a belly-bulging bag of bones. I hate that he's gone.…MORE
Let's go green a bit slower
Mon, 06/09/08
Unless you are a total Bushie or have spent the past couple of years selling oil in Saudi Arabia, you understand that the world is using up our natural resources at a breakneck pace and turning our once pristine earth into a giant toxic waste…MORE
