The financial picture for Kent’s ShoWare Center is not an upbeat one these days.
Now going into its second year, the city-owned events center is projected to fall short, once again. This time to the tune of about $140,000. That’s about $300,000 less than the center lost last year - its first year of operation.
Velda Mapelli didn’t have to die.
The 83-year-old Renton woman, who was tragically hit by a cyclist on Renton’s Cedar River Trail last week, underscores one of the biggest problems of our otherwise wonderful trail system.
Two-hundred fifty degrees, in the abstract sense of the word, is hot. Very hot.
But it takes sitting in a smoke-filled room, watching orange flames roaring up to the ceiling, to appreciate the incinerator quality of this level of heat.
Spring has officially sprung, the birds are chirping, the moles have returned to form their own underground condo (don’t ask) and my thoughts are preoccupied with baseball, golf and barbecue.
When we asked this question last year, parents and community members stood behind Kent teachers in responding that KSD’s top priority should be students and supporting learning in the classroom.
Disneyland is a happier place, since my departure last week from Southern California.
I don't know how many of you have opted to go to God's Largest Amusement Park as adults, but all I can say is that it will be a long time before I want to see another Mickey Mouse.
Especially a Mickey Mouse with a price tag stuck to it.
One of the finest opportunities I ever had as an officer was to work in schools.
I have given the impression that I hate television and all it stands for. Not true. I do enjoy some television, but it has to meet my high standards as a person with a brain.
Teenagers aren’t supposed to die.
They’re especially not supposed to die like this.
Phoebe Prince only had two strikes against her, and if you were a normal person, they were not strikes at all.
Three hundred and two people were recorded as living in King County in 1860. That’s hard to believe when you drive around the county today.
How to keep 86,382 good jobs in an area where flood risks have impacted the economic stability in the region is a serious problem. We came up with a creative solution to this crisis when the private “surplus” flood insurance market failed to provide adequate coverage to many businesses in the Green River Valley.
Last month on the “Rachel Maddow” show, Rachel, through the magic of television, called Glenn Beck a hypocrite and a liar. Also for those who may have missed it, Glenn Beck called Rachel Maddow a liar and unpatriotic.
This week at the Kent Reporter, we had a new wrinkle in how we cover professional sports.
The Predators, Kent’s first pro football team, had its home opener last week at the ShoWare Center.
I am a person who loves football and has been involved in it since the '50s. Because of my love for football I attended the first home game of the Kent Predators last night.
Since Tiger Woods is still in a self-imposed exile, we can all feel sorry for him that he has contracted this horrible disease.
Like 47 other states across the nation, Washington faces a budget shortfall. We cut over $3 billion from the budget last year even as demand for state services rose and continues to rise. This year, we need to find a more balanced solution.
So, would you ever cheat on your taxes?
We asked that last week, in our reader survey, and the answer to our highly unscientific poll found it went nearly 50/50 (it was actually 48 percent yes and 51 percent no.)
Attack of the Moles!
I wish this was some bad movie title, but it isn’t. My backyard is looking like an adolescent boy’s face, with mini craters popping up everywhere.
Do you wonder who your neighbors are?
Complex social problems, such as violence and homelessness continue to challenge us. Our valley communities are being threatened with the possibility of a flood from the Green River. We are in the throes of the biggest economic recession in half a century. Yet in spite of these hardships, there is still a valued commitment going strong in our communities: volunteer service.
