April 2007

Highline House members differ on cell phone bill

The Times/News presents a weekly summary of actions on bills by Highline-area legislators.

For complete information, go to www.WashingtonVotes.org-a free, non-partisan Website with plain-English explanations of bills and a record of each legislator's votes-which is the source for this report.

Highline is represented by:

District 11-Sen. Margarita Prentice; Rep Zack Hudgins, Rep. Bob Hasagawa.

District 33-Sen. Karen Keiser; Rep. Shay Schual-Berke, Rep. Dave Upthegrove.

District 34-Sen. Erik Poulsen; Rep. Eileen Cody; Rep. Joe McDermott.

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Driver saved from car fire after SeaTac crash

Friday the 13th was both lucky and unlucky for a 24-year-old Kent man after he was involved in an early morning one-car accident in SeaTac.

A King County Sheriff's sergeant pulled the man, still unconscious, from the burning car he had been driving moments earlier-then arrested him a short time later for driving under the influence.

According to sheriff's office spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart, Sgt.

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Sports Roundup

Baseball

Evergreen 5, Highline 2

Peter Santie won on the hill for the Wolverines Friday, April 6, striking out six. Tony Holm had two RBI for Evergreen, while Walter Johnson hit 2-for-4 with one run and one RBI and Mitchell McElwain 3-for-3 with one run. Derrick Solomon doubled, drove in two runs and scored one run.

Brendan Gardner-Young of Highline tripled and drove in one run and David Wagner hit 2-for-3.

Mt. Rainier 8, Tyee 0

J.T.

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Get With It

Fishing

Walleye Club

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The Western Washington Walleye Club meets the third Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. behind and below the Green Acres Learning Center located at 1826 So. 240th St. in Des Moines just past Highline Community College. There is a large lighted parking area.

Guests are welcome. Each meeting includes lots of fish stories, some refreshments and a very special program.

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Morgan Junction Murder

Early Sunday, a 44-year-old Morgan Junction resident was found dead in his apartment after acquaintances alerted police to an earlier fight and expressed their concern over the man's welfare. The victim, who was wheelchair-bound, suffered severe head trauma. Officers followed a blood trail and were alerted later that a possible suspect, covered in blood, was taken into custody near California Ave. and SW Holly at 5:45 am. Other residents reported hearing an early morning disturbance, but had become accustomed to such incidents.

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At The Admiral - 'Letters From Iwo Jima' gets acclaim

Every soldier's story follows an arc from bright dreams of glory into shadows of chaos - to a place where illusion is stripped away, leaving only the rawest elements of character and instinct to scrape against each other.

Combat drama, at its best, threads its way along this same path, pushing our imaginations past adolescent fantasy, towards a glimpse of life at the edge of annihilation.

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My West Seattle - Another trip to a place of adventure

In the 1960s (and today), for kids living on the west side of West Seattle who liked to fish, there was no close place to go. No legal place, that is. But there were three piers within easy walking distance, three giant piers that took you way out over deep water. Three perfect piers for fishing. But then (as today), fishing there was taboo, forbidden, a big no-no. Come along now, as two young boys decide to go fishing.

It was a summer morning in the late 1960s, and my friend Larry and I were about to set off on our latest adventure.

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Give her time

The real problem right away for our new superintendent of schools is to keep from being smothered and hogtied by the helpful people of Seattle, each and every one of them believing they and they alone have the key to success in the Emerald City. You can be that person's friend and accept and agree to everything she or he says, or you can be heaped with scorn and derision and even attacked if you dare even for a moment to disagree.

That is the Seattle way.

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Op-Ed - Look before you leap

The Swedish government announced recently that it was eliminating its property tax on houses and apartments and would soon eliminate its so-called "wealth tax" as well. That tax, implemented back in 1947, is imposed on family assets - the car, house and bank accounts - valued above $215,000 for singles and $430,000 for couples. These taxes are levied on top of Sweden's hefty income taxes, which range from 29 percent to 60 percent.

This news is particularly noteworthy because Sweden is the bastion of cradle-to-grave socialism.

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