Finding new ways to seek shelter | Klaas
For victims of domestic abuse, finding a safe haven remains a difficult challenge. Shelly David, a domestic violence legal advocate for the City of Auburn, knows as much.
May 9, 2012
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Correction
Mark Albertson, a finalist in the attorney/law firm category for the 2012 Best Of Kent readership poll was incorrectly listed.
May 2, 2012
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Kent School Board has a great plan | Tate
The Kent School District Board selected Edward Lee Vargas as superintendent three years ago. Prior to the nationwide search, the board conducted a survey of the stakeholders – including community, families and district employees – to determine what they thought the district needed in a superintendent.
May 2, 2012
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Leave the sandbags to us, and businesses
It has recently come to my attention that the city is ready to remove the sandbags throughout Kent after the Howard Hanson Dam flood scare. The problem is that removing these bags is going to cost millions of dollars for the city.
May 2, 2012
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Options for removing sandbags
After reading Steve Hunter's April 13 article on removing the sandbags and the cost associated with removing them, I thought there must be a way to remove the ugly black worm that many of us look at each day.
May 2, 2012
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ShoWare and its study do not serve the people
The Kent City Council's decision to deny the Resource Center for the homeless would have cost the city nothing versus the ShoWare Center that costs taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, plus another $36,400 for a study to determine its benefit to the city.
May 2, 2012
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Time to thank our great teachers | Kent schools
This week is National Teacher Appreciation Week, and I want to encourage each of you to take some time to thank your teachers, or thank a teacher you know for all the work they do each day in our classrooms.
May 2, 2012
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Driving the message home to distracted texting teens
The dangerous combination of teens, texting and driving has emerged as a bigger problem on local and national roadways.
Sustainability of state budget remains in question | GUEST OP
Now that the fog has lifted from the three special sessions in November/December, March and April, and the regular legislative session that ran January 9 to March 8, I'd like to offer my thoughts on the final operating budget and government reforms passed this year.
Green Kent Partnership: after one year on the ground, how are we doing?
The Green Kent Partnership began in 2009, and received initial funding through a $95,000 grant from the King Conservation District.
April 11, 2012
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Missed opportunity: A retrospective on the homeless shelter proposal | GUEST OP
With the City Council's decision to reject a proposal from Union Gospel Mission to establish, operate and fund a homeless shelter in downtown Kent, an opportunity was allowed to pass largely on the opinion of the business community's negative reaction.
April 11, 2012
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