A U.S. Coast Guardsman died Sunday from injuries received during a security patrol near Vashon Island.
Two 25-foot, fast-response boat crews from a Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team were involved in a security patrol and training mission north of Vashon Island at approximately 2:15 p.m. when a Coast Guardsman was ejected from a vessel.
SB 5089
Conforming Washington's tax structure to the streamlined sales and use tax agreement. By a vote of 76 to 15 on March 16, the House approved SB 5089, which would conform Washington law to the national Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. The bill requires that sales and use taxes to be collected under a destination based system. The bill also provides financial mitigation to small businesses and local jurisdictions that are negatively impacted from the change in sourcing.
The Department of Neighborhoods announced funding for 28 different neighborhood projects through the department's Matching fund.
This season's award recipients will include projects from all over the city covering subjects as diverse as public art, race and social justice, youth-development, and environmental protection.
Four times a year, Small and Simple Project Fund Awards are given to groups committed to building a better community by matching public funds with locally raised money, donated materials, and volunteer labor.
The Internal Revenue Service today urged taxpayers to check to see if they qualify for the telephone excise tax refund after more than 10 million early filers did not request the one-time refund.
In the first release of this year's weekly filing season statistics, about 30 percent of all taxpayers did not request the telephone tax refund.
"Many taxpayers are overlooking this special refund and the chance to get a bigger refund," said IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson.
Aromas of buttery brioche waft out the doors and into the Junction. Locals beam as they fill up their bike baskets with fresh-baked baguette and happily ride away to their first spring picnic.
I'm the one running east on Northwest 56th Street in shin-length cotton pants and clogs, a yoga mat under one arm. Some day I'm going to trip and chip my teeth while cutting through the Washington Mutual parking lot, jumping curbs and then hurtling down the bright yellow tunnel to Ballard Health Club for drop-in yoga.
A three-month-old female Sumatran tiger cub needs a name and the public is invited pick her name. The Malay-Indonesian names reflect the endangered tiger's native habitat: Hadish, or "gift;" Senang, "happy;" Sendiri, "single;" Berani, "courageous;" or Satu, "one." The winning name will be announced when the cub makes her public debut on Monday, April 9.
Once San Francisco was a city filled with vibrant people enjoying its beauty and its relatively good weather. Visitors came from far and wide, enjoyed the City by the Bay, shivered in summer when winds from the Pacific Ocean blew in and basked in the warmth of a January in the sun.
Youth from around the nation, and particularly the western part of the country, flooded into San Francisco to go to school, meet potential mates and often they settled down in the City to enjoy its cosmopolitan lifestyle.
No more.
Let's move forward, not backward
By Larry Phillips
The fight over how to replace the viaduct seems to have caused a surge of conversation around the idea of regional transportation governance reform, an issue currently being considered by the Washington State Legislature.
In a dark living room, illuminated only by candles, a group of local residents gathered for a peace vigil protesting the war in Iraq in the home of Ballard resident Diane Carlton on March 19.
Thirteen people attended the vigil. Protest signs were spread out on a coffee table with the message "Keep 'em Safe. Bring 'em home.
