The counting of votes will become a critical matter if we ever decide to return to our original republican form of government with the Constitution, and Bill of Rights which our founders so carefully, ingeniously, and laboriously created. When you editorialize "Ron Sims has to Go" (Sept.
In the August 31 edition of the Ballard News-Tribune, readers were asked to consider the Southwest Airlines proposal to move its operations to Boeing Field. Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air also announced their intent to seek equal access to the airport if Southwest moves. I am an employee of Alaska Airlines and would like to offer my perspective on the Southwest proposal.
On the surface, the Southwest offer is cheap tickets, a close and convenient airport, a free airport terminal for the county, and more jobs for Boeing workers. It all sounds like a good deal.
Thirty-nine years ago, Katie Dolan had trouble finding a school that would accept her son. He required special care because of his autism, a mental disorder that makes it difficult to interact socially.
Dolan, frustrated that her son and others like him couldn't get the care they needed, became one of the founding members of the Northwest Center in 1965, joining forces with four groups of parents to advocate for children with disabilities to ensure their rights to an education.
After studying the latest financing plan for the monorail, John Haley, the new director, recommended continued pursuit of the project and called for completion of a contract by the end of December.
The monorail board of directors unanimously agreed.
"I think we should proceed with the Green Line," Haley said. "It is complicated but it appears to be viable."
Two days later, Mayor Greg Nickels drew quite a different conclusion.
"The financing plan presented to me is not prudent," Nickels said in a statement last Friday.
Chopping the cost of the Green Line from a ridiculed $11 billion to $7 billion puts the monorail project back into the "realm of reasonableness," said Cleve Stockmeyer, a member of the Seattle Monorail Project board of directors.
Two weeks ago, a hired consultant presented financial recommendations to the monorail board that could also reduce the time it would take to pay off the project, from 50 to 39 years.
The announcement in late June of the $11 billion financing proposal was a surprise to the monorail board and its release hadn't been approved, Stockme
Ballard High School is one of four high schools to start a new pilot online communications program this fall.
In women's soccer, the Ballard Beavers have shown steady improvement over the last two seasons.
Despite continued improvement over the last two years, the Ballard Beavers women's soccer team will once again face stiff competition from the King Co. 4A league opponents.
The Ballard Beavers seem to have gotten more competitive in each of the last two years under the leadership of Head Coach Jim Harvey.
The year before Harvey arrived, the Beavers had scored only 16 goals in a 16 game season. They gave up 68 goals.
In 2003, the team improved, scoring 24 goals and only allowing 38.
Lena Takamori works on her diving techniques at the Ballard Pool last week. She has only been diving for three weeks.
Editor's Note: Linda Plato, our regular garden columnist, has decided to end her services with us and this is to be her last column. The Ballard News Tribune is seeking a new Garden Columnist to provide weekly columns. It is preferred that the prospective columnist has an extensive knowledge base of gardening, whether it is professional or personal.
