There is one cut in Gov. Gregoire’s preliminary all-cuts budget proposal that the Seattle Times opposes:
The proposed cut the governor would buy back, and that we would, too, is in levy-equalization money for public schools. This is money that keeps a minimum level of schooling in property-poor districts. This [...]
The Seattle Times editorial board likes Gov. Gregoire’s initial all-cuts budget so much, they wish many of the cuts would go even further.
THOUGH Gov. Chris Gregoire does not like her no-new-taxes state budget, and would buy back some of the cuts with taxes, the budget has a good deal [...]
Danny Westneat got some grief for his Seattle Times column yesterday about the empty beds in some of the city’s shelters the past few nights. All shelters were full during last year’s spells of bitter cold, leading him to wonder whether this year the number of homeless people in [...]
Gov. Chris Gregoire talks to reporters in Olympia, Wash., earlier today about her plan for balancing the state's $2.6 billion budget deficit using only the state's existing tax streams. The budget included proposed cuts in spending for health care, welfare, and education programs across the state of Washington. Seattle Times [...]
This:
Nothing happened here.
Was caused by some sort of boiler malfunction this morning. No one was hurt, and there was no fire, and the city kept on doing what the city normally does.
h/t: Seattle Times
The livestream of Gov. Gregoire's press conference is useless—get some more bandwidth, please, TVW—but the Seattle Times seems to have gotten an early look at what she's proposing.
Eliminated completely: The state's Basic Health program and state assistance to unemployable people with mental and physical disabilities.
Suspended: State-subsidized kindergarten and [...]
A few years back, in covering the school closure controversy, I once quipped to a local elected official that the real problem with the city’s middle schools was all those damn middle school aged kids. If we could only get rid of all the students, I joked, the schools themselves [...]
Spokane County sheriffs deputies enter the Tacoma Dome during the memorial service for four Lakewood, Wash. police officers that were killed last week Tuesday. (AP Photo/Cliff DesPeaux, The Seattle Times)
[...]If this were a movie, it would be classified as a ranch noir:
(Seattle Times) An Arlington-area rancher accused of fatally shooting his older brother in a dispute over cattle is being held in Snohomish County Jail for investigation of second-degree murder.
Mark Hillis, 47, was booked into the jail [...]
Shorter version of the guest editorial in Friday's Seattle Times: It's okay for me to visit Forks because I visit Forks for all the right reasons but it's not okay for them to visit Forks because there are way too many of them and they're going to overwhelm Forks' [...]
The estate tax is in the news again, and (surprise!) the Seattle Times is editorializing against it:
The supporters of this tax, which we call the death tax, like to talk about rich bankers, entertainers and other upper crustaceans who die with a moraine of stocks, bonds, cash and title [...]
The Seattle Times' Moira MacDonald weighs in on the impressive awfulness of Madonna's film work here.
[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
' [...]The Seattle P-I’s Chris Grygiel tells it like it is:
How did Dow Constantine beat Susan Hutchison so handily in last month’s King County executive’s race? As a Seattle Times map shows, he won Seattle handily and got more votes in the Eastside suburbs. Constantine’s strong showing in what, until [...]
The Seattle Times has mapped the November election results and finds that Mike McGinn won the mayor's race by exciting the city's spine.
Topographical evidence of a "fundamental shift"?
[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
[...]What Maurice Clemmon's Aunt was doing on the day of the murders:
(Seattle Times) Chrisceda Clemmons and Shantz had spent the day in Lynnwood, where their band, Bakra Bata, had played at the opening of a transit station. Shantz had glanced at The New York Times online that' [...]
Carl has already thoroughly fisked it over at EFFin’ Unsound (yes, I know Carl, you hate the etymology of the term, but find me a better word that describes what you do), still, I just couldn’t let this Seattle Times editorial pass without comment.
METROPOLITAN King County Council members [...]
Seattle police cordon off an area where the manhunt for Maurice Clemmons ended Tuesday. The man, suspected in the slaying four Lakewood police officers, was killed by a lone patrolman investigating a stolen car early Tuesday. Seattle Times story here. (AP Photo/Peter Haley / The News Tribune)
[...]
When I saw this headline on the Seattle Times' website this morning...
...I misread it. For a split second I thought it said "loan officer" and momentarily pictured an unemployed WAMU banker redeeming himself and his crooked colleagues by taking out Clemmons. But it was a lone officer—duh—a' [...]
The Seattle Times reports that the suspected cop killer has been shot:
Maurice Clemmons was shot and wounded in South Seattle and has been taken to Harborview Medical Center, according to a law enforcement source.
Clemmons was standing outside in the 4400 block of South Kenyon Street when he was confronted [...]
The Seattle Times reports that the search for Maurice Clemmons is creating unease for black men:
[Oscar] Eason, chairman of Washington's African American Affairs Commission, came to one painful conclusion: For African-American males between ages 20 and 50, he said, "I would caution them to be very careful and'" [...]
Says the Seattle Times:
A SWAT team has arrested a relative of Clemmons who is believed to be helping him. Police are at a location near Renton but have asked media not to disclose the address.
A short video clip of the scene in Renton from KOMO:
UPDATE 8:15: On Twitter, [...]
Washington State's Child Protective Services confirmed that the agency had "founded" - or substantiated - a complaint of child sexual abuse in October against Maurice Clemmons, the suspect in the fatal shooting of four Lakewood Police officers.
DSHS spokeswoman Sherry Hill said the agency received a complaint from [...]
"Police are searching for a green 1997 Mazda Millenia with Washington license plate 208-SSX. The vehicle is registered to Clemmons' wife. Police said she may be headed to Arkansas," reports the Seattle Times. There's also a Google Wave (a technology I have yet to fully grasp) on the search' [...]
A Seattle police SWAT team this morning swarmed a Leschi home surrounded overnight but did not find suspected cop killer Maurice Clemmons inside.... Police had surrounded the home late Sunday night and Troyer said the search of the house finished shortly after 7 a.m. Officers [...]
Maurice Clemmons, the man suspected of killing four Lakewood police officers Sunday in a Parkland coffee shop, was shot and perhaps seriously wounded by one of the officers before fleeing, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said this morning. "He has suffered a gunshot wound," Troyer said at [...]
What the fuck?
Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police officers, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health.
Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting [...]
