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Keeping health workers healthy is key to fighting deadly diseases

Keeping health workers healthy is key to fighting deadly diseases

Keeping hospitals and health workers healthy is key to fighting diseases. Given all the new, more deadly viruses out there, that job has gotten tougher.… Continue reading

Keeping health workers healthy is key to fighting deadly diseases

Grumbling about Sound Transit car tabs

OLYMPIA — Another public grumbling session on those pricey Sound Transit car tabs took place Tuesday. This one drew a smaller audience and fewer gripers… Continue reading

  • Feb 6, 2020

Grumbling about Sound Transit car tabs

OLYMPIA — Another public grumbling session on those pricey Sound Transit car tabs took place Tuesday. This one drew a smaller audience and fewer gripers… Continue reading

  • Feb 6, 2020
Playing multiple sports in high school paves way for Mahomes’ success

Playing multiple sports in high school paves way for Mahomes’ success

By Karissa L. Niehoff, NFHS executive director On football’s grandest stage this past weekend, its latest star attraction not only delivered another virtuoso performance but… Continue reading

  • Feb 6, 2020
Playing multiple sports in high school paves way for Mahomes’ success
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Copper making comeback as major disease fighter

Government leaders, doctors, and medical researchers worldwide are working feverishly to stop the spread of the coronavirus and to keep it from becoming a global… Continue reading

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As session moves along, lawmakers sharpen their focus

OLYMPIA — With a third of the legislative session nearly gone, lawmakers are starting to focus on matters of most importance. Exactly what are those?… Continue reading

  • Jan 31, 2020
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Matt Shea is poised for a victory lap

Matt Shea is poised for a victory lap

Democrats could, on their own, censure the six-term lawmaker. But they probably won’t. Even a hearing on the content of the report looks very unlikely.

  • Jan 24, 2020
Matt Shea is poised for a victory lap
Dams are the Northwest flood busters

Dams are the Northwest flood busters

We need to remember that that network is saving our bacon

Dams are the Northwest flood busters
We must demand a healthy Puget Sound

We must demand a healthy Puget Sound

Little progress being made

  • Jan 17, 2020
We must demand a healthy Puget Sound
Student loan assistance attractive employer benefit

Student loan assistance attractive employer benefit

To help workers distracted by financial worries

Student loan assistance attractive employer benefit
Inslee still hopeful for clean fuels standard

Inslee still hopeful for clean fuels standard

Gov. Jay Inslee badly wants a clean fuels standard in Washington. He came close nine months ago, but legislation he embraced and House Democrats approved… Continue reading

  • Jan 16, 2020
Inslee still hopeful for clean fuels standard
Ship owners face new sulfur standards to curtail pollution

Ship owners face new sulfur standards to curtail pollution

Limits implemented Jan. 1 by International Maritime Organization

  • Jan 9, 2020
Ship owners face new sulfur standards to curtail pollution
Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia. File photo

Despite ruling on Public Records Act, we need to keep a close eye on Olympia

Washington Supreme Court upholds that state legislators are subject to the Public Records Act.

  • Jan 2, 2020
Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia. File photo
Continuing to build connections in 2020

Continuing to build connections in 2020

What’s ahead for King County Library System

  • Jan 2, 2020
Continuing to build connections in 2020
Boeing needs strong tailwinds

Boeing needs strong tailwinds

Facing headwinds in 2020

  • Jan 2, 2020
Boeing needs strong tailwinds
Bridges shouldn’t have to sink to be replaced

Bridges shouldn’t have to sink to be replaced

Bridges shouldn’t have to sink to be replaced. However, at times that’s what it takes. Too often new projects succumb to years of fighting among… Continue reading

Bridges shouldn’t have to sink to be replaced
Rifts, not gifts: Habib, Republican senators at odds this holiday season

Rifts, not gifts: Habib, Republican senators at odds this holiday season

OLYMPIA — Stuck on what gifts to give Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib and Republican state senators this holiday season? Consider one present they can unwrap… Continue reading

  • Dec 19, 2019
  • By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
Rifts, not gifts: Habib, Republican senators at odds this holiday season
Will we feel different when Trump is impeached? Probably not

Will we feel different when Trump is impeached? Probably not

As a historic vote looms in the House, attitudes of the public are pretty hardened on this subject.

  • Dec 11, 2019
  • By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
Will we feel different when Trump is impeached? Probably not
Rep. Drew Stokesbary, R-Auburn. FILE PHOTO

When asked their opinion on contract talks, they were silent

A 2017 law lets lawmakers offer negotiation topics. But a bipartisan panel didn’t do so this week.

  • Dec 5, 2019
  • By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
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Taking time to say thank you to our supporters

Taking time to say thank you to our supporters

As the holidays approach, I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to King County residents for making KCLS one of the… Continue reading

Taking time to say thank you to our supporters