Update: 5:15 p.m., Tuesday Due to still-icy streets in many areas and the possibility of more snow overnight, Metro will be operating approximately half of its regular weekday service on Wednesday, Dec. 24.
As the district moves closer to making a final recommendation regarding school closures, parents and staff at West Seattle schools have grown frustrated with the process and are voicing their objections to the school board.
To address a project $24 million deficit in their 2009 budget, the Seattle School District is looking to close some schools across the city and relocate others. There is also an imbalance in capacity across the city.
Update: 5:15 p.m., Tuesday Due to still-icy streets in many areas and the possibility of more snow overnight, Metro will be operating approximately half of its regular weekday service on Wednesday, Dec. 24.
Please check the Metro Online website and click on the ?adverse weather? link, http://metro.kingcounty.gov/up/rr/adverseweather.html, before travel to check up-to-date route changes/cancellations.
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'Tis the season for Christmas regifting.
In that holiday spirit, I present a column that first ran in the very memorable year of 2001. It was headlined, "Not an Osmond Family Special but family is special on holiday."
I can't express what Christmas means to me any better.
The column needs a little updating.
Our Christmas Eve gathering is no longer at the old family home in Burien.
So many of us worked so hard for so many years attending dozens of meetings fighting against the third runway.
We knew that the Port would do or say anything to get their precious runway built.
And now everyone knows what we hardcore fighters knew all along.
Well, it's here, folks. I mean the third runway.
Yep, it's here now and I can appreciate those who tried to stop it. Sorry you didn't succeed.
It reminds me of one of the Star Wars movies where Lando Calrissian says that the Death Star is operational.
That pretty well says it for the third runway.
You probably have noticed that The Highline Times has recently run a couple of articles about the Third Runway at Sea-Tac Airport, and how many of the airport neighbors in surrounding cities are feeling "duped" because we were told (promised) that the runway was to be used as an alternate to the existing two in inclement weather, and now, it is obvious that it is being used daily.
The Port has even admitted that it "will be used 365 days a year."
I personally also believe that they are using it for takeoffs as well.
Having spent over 20 years in the airline bus
"Two cities agree on annexation." That was the headline on Dec. 17th in the Highline Times.
The city council seems totally oblivious on what is happening in the real world of finances. The federal government is running a deficit. The state is on the verge of creating a deficit.
When has the government, at any level, brought in a project under cost or within budget and original specifications?
Imagine turning your family loose in a department store at Christmas and telling everyone to fill several shopping carts.
Just spend! Grab items off the shelf! Don't worry about the cost!
Boys purchase the "boy toys" and girls get the "girl toys."
It is a whirlwind of a shopping trip. It can also be difficult to fathom the feeling of such a shopping frenzy.
One SeaTac family can actually tell how it feels, because it is a holiday tradition.
Meet Pam and John Cowin.
