Full Version of Bellingham Mayor Kim Lund’s Executive Order
New downtown offices for Public Safety to be manned to help with down town homeless problems.
Echelon Insights Total Poll on behalf of Concerned Taxpayers of WA.
Challenger Raul Garcia of Yakima. Received 36% of the Respondents to the poll. WEB SITE Challenger Raul Garcia of Yakima. Received 36% of the Respondents to the poll. WEB SITE Incumbent Maria Cantwell of Seattle. Received 44% of the Respondents to the Poll WEB SITE New State Poll Shows Surprising Results for Challengers this Fall A new poll released this week by Echelon Insights and sponsored by Concerned Taxpayers of ...
Island County News: Presented by Allen McPheeters March 25th 2024
In the News In The News As expected, the South Whidbey Fire/EMS District is putting a levy lid lift measure on the ballot in August. Look for a flood of information about why you should give them more money… and very little information on why you should not. (At the Project, we have no opinion on the matter — we generally like fire fighters and medics — but we would like to occasionally ...
Voter Interests: Island County Community News
BY ALLEN MCPHEETERS And now, the news. Let’s start with those legislative updates. The session ended on Thursday night, so we have the final scorecard for our 10th District legislators. Sen. Ron Muzzall, R-10 Sen. Ron Muzzall (R-Oak Harbor): Four of Muzzall’s bills were delivered to the Governor for his signature this week. With the five bills he had signed last year, Muzzall wins the trophy for most bills passed in ...
In Skagit County: Jail Comes together in Four Years… Ron Wesen tells the story.
How did Skagit County Complete their Justice Center Project. The slides below highlight the process. Beginning with the passage of the proposition to build the Justice Center until Finishing around the ribbon cutting in July 2017 was just less than 4 years for the $62,602,000 Project. This made Skagit County the First County in the Fourth Corner to build a modern jail in their community. The leaders in Skagit County got the job done. ...
Candidate for OSPI to appear in Whatcom County.
CHAD MAGENDANZ IS RUNNING FOR OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION CHAD MAGENDANZ STATEMENT A recent The Seattle Times headline read, "Cheerleading mediocrity is not good enough for WA’s education department," but our current chief of schools is still "the guy who high-fives kids plodding along in the slow lane and assures everyone that all is well." (9/17/2023) Today's hearing on Initiative 2081(Parent's Bill of Rights) showed that parents across the state are building momentum for ...
Island County Report by Allen McPheeters of Voter Interest Project
As noted in last week’s newsletter, the City of Langley took up the issue of the Israel-Hamas War during last Monday’s City Council meeting, and — unsurprisingly — called for a ceasefire. I’ve read the version of the resolution as originally presented (it was amended somewhat during the council meeting), and — again unsurprisingly — it has words of condemnation only for Israel. While it mentions that over 1200 Israelis have died, it does ...
Skagit County: School Districts February 13th Election
MT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT VOTER'S PAMPHLET CONCRETE SCHOOL DISTRICT VOTER'S PAMPHLET
Island County: School Districts Feb 13th Levy Election
Voter Pamphlet Information for Stanwood Camino Island School District Levy
State Senate Passes Voter Challenge Reform SB5856
BY A FOURTH CORNER CONTRIBUTOR SB 5856 Voter Registration Challenges February 1st 2024 Good morning. I wanted to update you on SB 5856, which passed off the Senate Floor yesterday. I have learned more about the laws surrounding this issue over the past week than I have known in my 65 years. I also know that there are some people who do not understand those laws and who do not understand the ...