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WASHINGTON – There are zero-book children, 1,000-book children, the summer slide, Early Readers, Reading First, Striving Readers and programs, methods and studies with names and acronyms that won’t quit. It’s all part of the effort to teach the nation’s children to read.
Pierce County polls will remain open in 2010 under a budget provision approved by the County Council last week. Now the county Auditor’s Office has to find the money to make it happen.
Puyallup School District officials say the City of Puyallup owes them money for building Puyallup’s new City Hall over a public alleyway that used to border district property.
WASHINGTON – It’s a bit like tangling with the National Rifle Association. The AARP has 40 million members, including nearly 940,000 in Washington state. It’s a potent lobbying force in Washington, D.C., highly visible nationwide and its members vote more often than just about anyone else.
KIEL, Wis. – The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city Saturday fell solemnly silent as a white hearse passed by on its way to the church. Mourners streamed into a Wisconsin gymnasium to remember a soldier who once promised she would take down Osama bin Laden.
Kids will be playing basketball in University Place this winter after all, even as city officials and volunteers work to spare other youth recreation leagues and senior citizen programs from harsh budget cuts.
Personal fireworks of all kinds, including sparklers, will be outlawed in Steilacoom in 2011, putting Washington’s oldest town among the ranks of no-fireworks cities such as Tacoma, Fircrest, Ruston and Federal Way.
The Pierce County Council has approved a 2010 budget that cuts more than 300 jobs, raises fees and paves the way for a major consolidation of county government in the year ahead.
The Pierce County Council has confirmed its decision to eliminate funding for the Superior Court seat of Judge Michael Hecht.
The Pierce County Council is pushing a sweeping consolidation of county departments to save money in 2010 and beyond.
Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy has some issues with the budget the County Council approved Tuesday evening.
The Pierce County Council Tuesday confirmed its decision to eliminate funding for the Superior Court seat of Judge Michael Hecht.
The FBI is investigating a death threat against Congressman Brian Baird.
The Pierce County Council Tuesday approved a 2010 budget that cuts more than 300 jobs, raises fees and paves the way for a major consolidation of county government in the year ahead.
Critics are questioning the legality of the Pierce County Council’s decision to eliminate funding for the Superior Court seat held by Judge Michael Hecht.
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