Burien City Council members refused last week to support a bill now in a legislative committee that would give a major tax break to Seattle should that city annex the North Highline Unincorporated Area.
"There's no reason Seattle should get more money than we do," Councilwoman Sally Nelson said.
In separate actions on Feb. 22, Des Moines City Council members approved a Redondo rezone that addresses substandard lot requirements and unanimously endorsed the Highline School District's replacement levy.
Currently in Redondo there are 154 taxed lots, of which 134 are substandard in size.
It was quite a January week for New Futures Finance Director Susana Schuarzberg.
The financial guru for the Burien-based group accepted the Puget Sound Business Journal's first-ever award as 2007 CFO (chief financial officer) of the Year for small nonprofit organizations with a budget of less than $150 million.
Earlier that week, the immigrant from Argentina passed her citizenship test after just over five years of United States residency.
On Feb.
Ballots were mailed last week to absentee voters for the March 13 special election on the Highline School District's $140 million educational programs and operations levy.
The four-year levy would replace a levy that expires this year.
The conversation on women's reproductive rights often goes no further than access to birth control and abortion. Rarely do we think of birth under the banner of reproductive freedom. But it is.
The Seattle Department of Transportation had to file an official public records request with the Washington State Department of Transportation to obtain a copy of a contractor's review saying there are no insurmountable problems with the city's slimmed-down hybrid tunnel proposal.
State officials pronounced the hybrid tunnel plan unsafe because emergency vehicles would not be able to get through traffic during the morning and evening commute times.
A native Londoner with an engineering background in failure analysis of airplane crashes turned a century-old, three-story log building near Beach Drive into a large modern home with heated floors and wireless Internet connections.
Chris Wain was trained in Britain as a mechanical engineer.
A petition campaign to ask the King County Council to provide funds for a King County Sheriff's gang unit is underway.
"We hope to complete the drive by early March," organizer JoAn Cox said last week.
Mrs. Cox is the mother of King County Sheriff's Deputy Steve Cox, who was killed in the line of duty Dec. 2 while questioning a suspect in a house in White Center.
The man who fatally shot Cox was a known gang member.
Noting that her son's killer "actually lived in Burien," Mrs.
Seattle's first biodiesel fuel station owned and operated by a national retailer is located in the Admiral District.
The Safeway gas station at 4115 S.W. Admiral Way is now equipped with a self-serve biodiesel pump with a mixture of 80 percent petroleum diesel and 20 percent diesel made from soybeans.
West Seattle has a new park with a new name, plus an official name for a future park.
Located at Southwest Brandon Street and 26th Avenue Southwest, Cottage Grove Park is named for the neighborhood where it is located. The small, rectangular new park has a plaza, pathway, play structure and grassy areas.
Cottage Grove Park is sandwiched between Puget Boulevard Commons to the east and Greg Davis Park to the west.
