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  The real election season shifts into high gear

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• Voters must backfill local school districts’ funding gap

  Voters must backfill local school districts’ funding gap

  As the Washington Supreme Court pointed out earlier this month, the state is failing in its “paramount duty” to amply fund education. The court ordered the state Legislature to figure out how to resolve that situation.

• Letters to the Editor, Oct. 26

  Letters to the Editor, Oct. 26

  Nicole Martineau brings integrity, civility to the Puyallup City Council We need to retain Nicole Martineau on the Puyallup City Council. She brings a positive influence with civility and integrity that seemed to be lacking in the past. In the short time she has been on the council, much positive improvement has been made. We need to keep Nicole’s average-citizen perspective on the council. The city seems to be heading in the right direction with term limits, some key personnel changes and the budget retreat was not held at some far-away resort. We can’t afford to go backward. Lets keep moving forward with Nicole Martineau as our at-large representative. Richard Patterson Puyallup Puyallup’s Shaw/East Pioneer area should remain separate from Orton Mr. Palmer is misguided to involve Puyallup in the Sumner and Pierce County proceedings arising out of the Orton Junction proposal, by targeting 125 acres of the Puyallup Urban Growth Area (UGA) for give-away.      In 2004, the county proposed the Shaw

• Richland School District looks to buy Delta property

  Richland School District looks to buy Delta property

  The Richland School District is moving toward becoming Delta High School's landlord by buying the property housing the small school.

  The district would use money left over from a bond levy voters approved in 2003 to buy the Richland property, which is assessed at about $1.2 million, Superintendent Jim Busey told the Herald after Tuesday's school board meeting.

  The bond money cannot be used to pay for operating schools or to pay teachers. It already is in district accounts and would require no new property taxes.

• Two levies go before Mount Baker School District voters on Feb. 14

  Two levies go before Mount Baker School District voters on Feb. 14

  DEMING - Mount Baker School District voters are being asked to approve two levies on Feb. 14 - a four-year measure to help pay for daily operations and a six-year levy for projects that range from fixing leaky roofs to providing technology for students.

  Both levies need a simple majority of 50.1 percent to pass.

  If voters give the OK, the school property tax will be lower in 2013 than originally expected when the district's school board put the levies on the ballot.