By Highlands Community Council
Tired of trekking to Seatac or Redmond simply to let your four-legged family member romp and play in a safe and enclosed natural setting? Are you weary of risking a $250 fine for exercising your dog off-leash anywhere else?
Read more about it here.
By Highlands Community Council
By Emily Heffter
Seattle Times staff reporter
Washington’s Open Public Meetings Act
Seattle City Attorney Tom Carr said the private, closed-door budget briefings between city council members and the mayor’s staff may violate the state’s open-meeting law. Carr joined the Washington Attorney General’s Office and the public-policy group Evergreen Freedom Foundation on Thursday in questioning the sessions.
Read the rest of the story in the Seattle Times.
Maybe the salary negotiations between the City of Renton and the Unions should be opened up for public discussion. Note that the non-union employees were asked to take furlow days but the union employees were not.
By Highlands Community Council
SEATTLE — After 57 years, Joe’s Sports, Outdoor & More, formerly known as G.I. Joe’s, is going out of business.
The decision came Thursday during a bankruptcy hearing. A liquidator plans to purchase the company and sell all of the merchandise down to the bare shelves. A massive going-out-of-business sale will begin Friday at all 31 of the chain’s stores.
Read more from KOMO News web site.
By Highlands Community Council
Should Mayor Law declare a Budget emergency and tell the Renton tax payers the truth about the tricky wheelin and dealing the City Administration has been doing with the Cities debt structure over the past decade?
By Highlands Community Council
We try to keep this blog focused on local issues but this one is just over the top.
Look at all discussion over AIG bonuses and now we find out the Federal Government is paying out bonuses in this economy.
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