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It doesn’t take a financial genius to understand that there’s no better time than the present to get moving on construction projects: Interest rates are low, and contractors are eager for the work.
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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.
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Ballot measures account for most of the action in this off-year election, including gargantuan media battles over a couple of them.
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Change is coming to University Place, with at least two new faces on the City Council and one on the school board after the Nov. 8 election.
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Federal Way voters have a lot to decide on their Nov. 8 ballot, with open positions on both the City Council and school board.
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The city councils in the neighboring cities of Bonney Lake and Sumner share the big problem facing many cities in Pierce County: how to keep providing services citizens expect in the face of declining revenues.
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Suggestion: Read the article below, written by the Pierce County sheriff and a leader of the county’s fire commissioners.
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Is Tacoma – a city with more cannabis dispensaries than pharmacies – really out to jail seriously ill patients whose doctors have recommended marijuana use?
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Compared to all the drama in the Tacoma and Puyallup school districts lately, things have been quiet in Pierce County’s third- and fourth-largest districts, Bethel and Clover Park.
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After the Nov. 8 election, the Puyallup School Board will have at least two newcomers. They’ll have to hit the ground running, because they’ll have a lot on their plate from Day 1.
Tim Eyman makes his living selling initiatives, which means he’s got to churn them out regularly to keep his paydays coming. Some have contained the germs of good ideas; others have been folly incarnate.
Four seats on the Tacoma City Council are up for election Nov. 8. Three are easy calls for the incumbents; the fourth – to fill the open District 1 seat – is a little tougher.
If you think this is a good time for the state to spend millions of dollars it doesn’t have on something it doesn’t need, Initiative 1163 is your baby.
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