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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
By SIMON SEFZIK sefzik Simon Sefzik is a former Washington state senator for the 42nd Legislative District and now works as a director for Project 42, a nonprofit aiming to build a durable infrastructure to improve the course of Washington. In 1912, Washington state pioneered “direct democracy” as one of the first to formalize an initiative and referendum process, allowing citizens to organize and directly create and reform laws. This gave a ...
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 ...
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Why the Carbon Tax Doesn’t Work I-2117 We’re going to start with the premise that we can’t trust everything we hear or read. It’s incumbent on us to make the effort to dig deeper to understand the issues. Is there really a climate crisis? We’re going to set that question aside for today, and start with two assumptions about the environment. Our first assumption is that we ALL want to live ...
