The National Transportation Safety Board has taken a tough but necessary stand on texting, emailing or chatting while driving a vehicle. The board wants it outlawed.
If you haven’t started your holiday shopping, you might want to hold on to your wallet. Gov. Chris Gregoire wants the state to dig deeper into your pocket to help bail out the state budget.
Five measures are on the ballot this November — three initiatives and two referendums from the Legislature to the public. Here’s the Bellevue Reporter’s take.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has struck a strong chord in the country with his call for corporations to withhold campaign contributions from those in Congress until they get serious about fixing the deficit mess.
Times are tight, the economy is in trouble again and no one knows what to do. It couldn’t be a worse time to ask for money.
The King County Council plans to vote by Aug. 15 on a proposal to institute a $20 car-tab fee to bail Metro Transit out of a $60 million hole.
Our state’s new cell phone law apparently is having an effect. Unfortunately, there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done to get these drivers to obey the law.
They’ve barely finished counting the votes on I-1053, and already Gov. Chris Gregoire is trying to get out from under its restrictions. She now wants to change the operation of the state ferry system.
Boeing’s non-union workers are going to pay more for their health insurance. And it’s likely that union workers won’t be far behind.
Reagan Dunn and Jane Hague (both of whom represent portions of Bellevue), Kathy Lambert and Peter von Reichbauer don’t like the idea of raising taxes while taxpayers still are climbing out of a recession.
The King County Council used to be a partisan body. It appears it still is, despite the fact that voters…
