February 2008

The Times/News presents a summary of action on bills by Highline-area lawmakers in the Washington Legislature.

For complete information, go to www.WashingtonVotes.com - a free, non-partisan Website that is the source for this report.

Highline is represented by:

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

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

District 34-Sen. Joe McDermott; Rep. Eileen Cody; Rep. Sharon Nelson.

Teens arrested after man

thwarts burglary at home

February 7-Four teenage burglars had a bad day.

First, said King County Sheriff's Sgt. John Urquhart, the owner of the home they were burglarizing returned and chased them out of his house at gunpoint.

Two of the burglars were caught by police within minutes.

The other two were caught after the area was flooded with King County Sheriff's deputies, Burien officers and Guardian One - the sheriff's helicopter.

Meet Lee Bailey

He owns 60 pair of Air Jordan basketball shoes and is a Seahawk fanatic.

He cans also bench press 350 pounds.

Not bad for a guy 56 years old.

Lee lives in SeaTac and has been a member of Highline Athletic Club for 15 years.

He works out three to four times a week to stay in shape and looks like he could hold your Volkswagen up while you changed your tire.

Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem.

President Ronald Reagan

First Inaugural Address

Not long ago I praised 33rd District Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines, for going after the Port of Seattle's recklessly misused property tax authority.

A broken clock, after all, is still right twice a day.

But as the current legislative session continues, it becomes increasingly apparent how abysmally - and irresponsibly - wrong Sen. Keiser is on so many issues

Now that the Port of Seattle has released its greenhouse gas inventories for SeaTac airport showing a full 22 percent of King County's total comes from a single source, the airport, what can be done about it?

I asked the Port to cap flights as a starting point, to begin a conversation about reducing flights. Clearly, they are not willing to cap flights. They fear a lawsuit from industry or FAA.

Here is one way the Port could cap flights and never fear any lawsuit. Don't build any new gates. Vote no on expenditures for expansion. Don't create new facilities.

Buyer beware! A picture in a downtown paper touted a sale of a large number of boats sitting on tandem axle trailers at the Seattle Boat Show. Those trailer boats represent a future heartbreak to many potential boaters.

Boat launching points are as much needed by trailer boat users as airports to pilots or freeway entrance ramps.

About 80 Burien citizens attended the January 23, 2008, Highline School District public hearing about the sale of a piece of HSD land.

The Leagues of Women Voters of King County South and Seattle, representing all of King County, would like to respond to Mr.

Is there a product or service that has escaped an increase or a new levy of taxation in the form of Registration fees, Certification fees or Renewal fees? If there is one, be sure and tell Sen.

Glenn C. Proctor, the man Federal Way Police searched for in connection with the

January 18 Transit Center shooting, has turned himself in.

Representatives from the FWPD said Proctor, 20, was arrested and booked into

jail.

The Federal Way Police Department issued a warrant for the arrest of Glenn C.

Proctor, 20, for the murder of Darrel L. Miller at the Federal Way Transit