May 2006

After reading your article about the CLEARED COUNCIL PEOPLE, I have to ask if you actually read the other 500-plus pages of the report which were not presented to the Burien City Council. Actually they got a copy but everything has been based on the smaller summary report.

The Seabold Group expressly stated they were not finding anyone guilty or not guilty, and that they were under the opinion the report would be processed by a third party reviewing the legal aspects of what everyone did.

This did not happen. Shame on the city council.

Like the rotting interior of a fallen cedar tree America is eroding from the inside out. The national boycott held on May 1 to support granting legal status to illegal immigrants constitutes an assault upon our national character.

The American flag is held upside down below the Mexican flag; a Spanish version of the national anthem is written and the term “illegal” immigrant is considered racist.

This disgraceful amnesty movement should not surprise anyone.

Burien may get tax credits for annexing North Highline, but those in North Highline might be interested to know that Burien will collect city occupation and franchise fees from cable use and city occupation taxes on phone use plus utility taxes on heating fuel bills.

I may have missed some of Burien’s “hidden taxes,” but those listed come on each bill from companies that supply the service or product to you.

I thought it was worth revealing this information to those of you who might consider annexing to Burien as you vote on this issue.

Mary R

(Editor's note: This is a copy of a letter sent to the Burien City Council.)

We all read with dismay the Times/News article on May 3, "Burien and Seattle 'recruit' at North Highline forum."

David Cline is in clear violation of the integrity of his acting city manager role as he actively recruits for the annexation of North Highline, well in advance of citizen input meetings which have not taken place yet.

The ghosts of Gary Long and Stephen Lamphear are stirred as we see David Cline already working off the assumption that the annexation will take place, and the

Gone are persuasive puns uttered by 1970s teenagers when Des Moines, according to them, was more appropriately pronounced, “DEAD Moines.”

“There’s nothing to do here,” they complained.

Oh, how times change. Des Moines is being discovered with subsequent growing pains. Thirty-four construction projects city wide were in process from January through March.

She was banned in Des Moines, welcomed in Burien and opened a superstore in Tukwila.

Now 25 years after her retail failure in Des Moines and rookie redemption in Burien, businesswoman Phyllis Heppenstall and her daughter own 19 Western Washington Lovers Package stores, eight Southern California Touch of Romance shops and a thriving Internet business.

As a successful entrepreneur in a frisky business, Heppenstall has been profiled in daily newspapers, business journals and community papers.

Heppenstall insists that her stores that sell various sensual lotions an

We have a delightful small fountain in our yard with a boy on two dolphins spouting water. It is not only a pleasure to gaze at but numerous birds use it to drink each day. They also freshen up by doing a canary flutter.

We have robins, starlings, swallows and once even a flicker.

This is okay with me but Elsbeth can't stand it when big herking crows use it. So she decided to put cubes of chlorine we bought for the hot tub in the fountain to discourage the cawky nest robbers.

It worked.

The anti-crime team shut down a suspected meth lab at a home in the 4000 block of 23rd SW on Wednesday afternoon. Detectives and chemists brought over 50 items of evidence from the house, all typically used in the manufacture of meth. The residents of the home, a 51-year-old woman and a 45-year-old woman, were booked into King County Jail for investigation of assorted drug charges.

Monday evening, in the 8100 block of 17th SW, two strangers approached two young men sitting in a car and demanded they get out.

'Failure of Launch' is fun, but...

By Bruce Bulloch

"Failure to Launch" is a laid-back movie which, like its protagonist, seems to be without bigger ambitions than to kill a little time and have some fun.

Trip (Matthew McConaughey) is a 35-year-old yacht broker who is still living happily at home with mom and dad. Trip has little to complain about; the food is good, his socks get washed and if a girlfriend begins to make noises about getting serious he simply brings her home to meet the folks.

We have a delightful small fountain in our yard with a boy on two dolphins spouting water. It is not only a pleasure to gaze at but numerous birds use it to not only to drink each day but they also freshen up by doing a canary flutter. We have robins, starlings, swallows and once even a flicker.

This is okay with me but Elsbeth can't stand it when big honking crows use it.

So she decided to put cubes of chlorine we bought for the hot tub in the fountain to discourage the cawky nest robbers.

It worked.