Please allow me to comment on the otherwise fine commentary of Kyra-Lin Hom last week concerning the (Washington Assessment of Student Learning - WASL - exam). She called it a standardized test and it is not. There are two kinds of tests given in schools: standardized and criterion-referenced. The WASL is an example of the latter.
Standardized tests are given to hundreds of thousands of students across the country at approximately the same time of year.
As a South Park homeowner I am writing to urge (the Port of Seattle) to move forward with the street-end improvements at 8th Avenue South.
After attending a public meeting on this issue and viewing the planning images and documents I am convinced that this small green space will add a great deal to the neighborhood's orientation to the Duwamish River, provide park space for residents and employees of local industry to relax, create wildlife habitat along Seattle's only river, and improve an area that is currently used only for illegal activity, if anything at all.
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COUNTY OF KING
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NO: 06-4-02272-3SEA
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Seattle has a $500 million backlog of undone transportation projects - not counting the Alaskan Way Viaduct - and not enough money to do the work, so city officials asked West Seattle residents to list their most pressing street and bridge repair projects for inclusion in an election package for voters to approve or reject this fall.
City officials sponsored an open house in the commons at West Seattle High School last week but were only partly successful getting people to discuss Seattle's other streets and bridges because many of the approximately 100 people who attended we
One of West Seattle's main employers, Services Group of America, plans to move to Arizona, according to press reports over the weekend.
The company did not return repeated telephone calls or e-mail messages to confirm or explain the move, which was reported Saturday in Seattle newspapers.
Services Group of America is one of the largest privately owned companies in Washington. Company sole owner Thomas J.
The Seattle Monorail Board OK'd the sale of a West Seattle property last week that will knock about $2 million off the defunct project's debt.
The Monorail Board unanimously approved a purchase-and-sale agreement for Harbor Properties to buy the former Petco parking lot and the Chan Clinic for $4.5 million. The two properties are next to each other in the 4700 block of 42nd Avenue Southwest, across the street from Jefferson Square.
Even after it pays the $164,000 sales commission, the Monorail Project still doubled its money on the Junction properties.
Seattle has joined with King County and Burien by signing an agreement to approach the incorporation of the North Highline Unincorporated Area in a cooperative way.
The memorandum of understanding was signed by Mayor Greg Nickels, County Executive Ron Sims and Burien's interim City Manager, David Cline.
The agreement says the three governments believe it is in their joint interest, and the interest of the public, to work with residents to resolve the annexation issue, which has already been studied by residents and the adjacent cities for nearly a decade.
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The multimillion-dollar debt accumulated by the failed Seattle Monorail Project is expected to be paid off by next fall, so the Monorail Board voted to terminate the motor vehicle excise tax paid by Seattle residents sometime between August and October of this year.
Board members faced a choice between continuing the motor-vehicle excise tax at its existing 1.4 percent rate until this fall or lowering the rate to 0.3 percent and continuing it for more than a year.
