Regarding Kent Reporter’s Oct. 17 online article, “We are our brother’s keeper? Kent merchant aids homeless.”
What a pleasant article about two people pursuing their values, an acknowledged win-win. It’s lovely to see people enjoying their life and helping others in a way that makes them happy too.
To Reporter columnist Walter Backstrom:
I recently read your article in the Kent Reporter and I’d just like to say thank you for your courage and your thoughtful words.
Rossi does not want to lower the minimum wage, but wait, wait, wait just for a few kids. Just for the first six months while we train them to fill a popcorn box or shine flashlight. How many trainies would make six months? Five and a half and you’re out of here.
In reading your recent article about Rep. Pat Sullivan and challenger Tim Miller, it became clear that Miller simply repeats the conservative Republican mantra of cutting taxes, deregulating businesses and claiming that government is inefficient.
In the Seattle Times article “Burner’s exaggeration is a matter of degree” Oct. 23, she makes the statement, “This should be more than people playing stupid semantic gotcha games.”
Come on Darci! You’re the one who said “I loved economics so much that I got a degree in it from Harvard.”
The Mercer Island unit of the League of Women Voters sponsored a public candidate forum with the Mercer Island Reporter on Oct. 21 at Islander Middle School.
Here in the 33rd Legislative District we have some the best people representing us: U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, U.S. Congressman Adam Smith, State Sen. Karen Keiser, State Rep. Dave Upthegrove. It’s not by coincidence that each of them endorses Tina Orwall for state representative in the 33rd.
Soon we will get the chance to vote for or against I-1000; it proposes that we should have the opportunity to die with dignity.
I think we all want that when the time comes. But I-1000 says that it should be legal to end one’s life by self-administering a lethal dose of medication prescribed by a doctor who agrees the patient has less than six months to live.
Written by:Sue Rahr, King County SheriffDan Satterberg, King County ProsecutorBruce Hilyer, Presiding Judge, King County Superior CourtBarbara Linde, Presiding Judge, King County District CourtSeveral months… Continue reading
On Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, Peridot Nail Salon issued a press release to the local media to let our customers know that we were going to offer fish pedicures, or fish baths, starting Friday, Sept. 19.
Although new to Kent, this procedure has been done for years in Turkey and Asia before coming to the United States earlier this year.
This is a rebuttal of Janice Ward’s letter to the editor on Oct. 3 (online date; print date was Oct. 4), “Letter doesn’t speak for all who have had abortions”)
I believe that the contender who will win our upcoming governor’s election is the one who will honor the 1 percent cap on property taxes. Also one who will bring on NO new taxes.
Honestly, I’m incensed by just the mere title of this letter (“Is reaction to Palin really a symptom of post-abortive grief, guilt?” Page 9, Oct. 1 Kent Reporter.) I’ve never written a letter to the editor before, but this grabbed me in the most offensive way.
John Carlson is right. As he stated in Saturday’s column, Sarah Palin is “…a successful, attractive woman with working-class roots, a career and a family. She’s also pro-life, up front about her faith, and calls herself a conservative…” And with all those things going for her, Ms. Palin is still not qualified to be the vice president of the United States.
While I now live in Kent, Arizona was my home for 49 years and have met John McCain many times. I may disagree with the senator on some issues, but I found Rev. Miller’s hate-filled attack on John McCain so full of falsehoods and mean-spirited innuendo as to be personally offensive.
The Palin family has an uncompromising pro-life standard. Sarah gave birth to Trig, a Downs Syndrome baby and her 17-year-old daughter Bristol is bravely pregnant.
On Sept. 20, 2008, the Kent Reporter published an article concerning the lack of public input at Kent City hearings. Council member Jamie Danielson was struck that no residents showed up at a public hearing to talk about the budget.
Scientists predict that Mount Rainier could erupt again, but no definite year or century is given. So we may have time to forestall most damages. If that mountain should collapse, dumping cubic miles of ice and snow into molten lava, they predict a vast mud flow on to low lands between Seattle and Tacoma, that are highly developed.
I was reading along and noticed the title, “Rich are profiting from the poor”. I am saddened that people still believe this. In any country where abuses of individual rights are not protected by law, this is absolutely true.
John Carlson in discussing talks with Iran refers to what he calls "the false comfort of appeasement."
He says talking with enemies is "discredited by history."
