You may ask yourself, why are we talking about something in Seattle?
Well for starters, have you noticed that the panhandling keeps getting worse here in the City of Renton?
We know there are people out there struggling to make ends meet but many of the panhandlers right here in Renton have been asking for the same bus fare for two plus years!
This didn’t used to be an issue here in our town. It seems like now that we are a “big city” we are getting more and more “big city” problems. Crime, out of control spending, higher taxes and panhandling.
Read the story about Seattle’s panhandling law over at King5.com.
The City of Renton will conduct a day-long test of its CodeRED emergency notification system starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday to ensure the proper functioning of the system.
The test is also a reminder for residents and business owners within Renton’s city limits to enter their contact information online.
For businesses you can enter your information here. For City of Renton residents use this link.
You can read the rest of the story over at the Renton Reporter.
Thanks to Dori Monson over at KIRO people are now taking note that there are way to many government “officials” making over $100,000.
Dori even was kind enough to provide a link to an Excel spreadsheet with the salaries listed.
This nonsense needs to stop. Starting voting these clowns out of office so we can reduce government and save some money.
We’ve posted Renton’s salaries from 2007 here on our site as well. Take a look here. There’s lots of folks here in Renton making over $100,000 working for the City of Renton as well.
And our new King County Executive wants to increase the sewer tax by 10%. You’ve got to be kidding. It’s staring to sound like Tax to the Max Sims is back in office.
While we support the Renton Police Department 100%. Who decided they need new badges?
Didn’t we just have a furlow day for City Employees? Couldn’t this have waited until the economy turned around? And how many people really even know what the Renton Police Department badge even looks like?
On Friday, April 16, the Renton Police Department will retire the badge worn by officers for the past 54 years and don new badges.
“The new badge, which symbolizes the progressive changes within the Police Department, is engraved with a depiction of City Hall. This image illustrates the strength of the Renton community and the Police Department’s dedication to serving the citizens of Renton,” said Chief Kevin Milosevich.
Sara doesn’t drive Interstate 405 very often, so she’s not familiar with all the exits and on-ramps. Recently, when trying to get to a restaurant, she was following directions to take the northbound state Route 167 exit from northbound I-405. But there were no signs along the freeway for northbound state Route 167 and she wound up missing the right exit.
She saw a sign for southbound state Route 167; and signs for Rainier Avenue and another street. Then, a Jersey barrier separated her from the following two marked exit lanes. At the end of the Jersey barrier, she noticed another sign for Rainier Avenue that also was marked for northbound state Route 167, but it was too late by then. “We had to go an extra mile- and-a-half north to get off and backtrack where we had been. If I’d been alone and hadn’t had a navigator with me, I would have been completely screwed,” she writes.
“I imagine the folks who drive it all the time know what to do, but those of us that are not there all the time are clueless,” she says.
More than 400 workers laid off at Kenworth’s Renton truck plant last year can get new unemployment and retraining aid under the Trade Adjustment Act, the Department of Labor says.
Those workers were laid off after sales of the heavy duty trucks they were building fell steeply with the recession. Only 66 workers remain at the huge plant producing specialty trucks.
by GARY CHITTIM / KING 5 News
Posted on April 12, 2010 at 4:13 PM
Updated Monday, Apr 12 at 5:58 PM
After running down a steep highway construction project, the bathtub sounds pretty good. And that is just where storm water runoff from a project on Interstate 405 in Renton is heading.
It may look like just a pile of rocks, but State Department of Transportation engineers call it the environmental bathtub. Water running off the steep hillside above the project washes over the site and could carry harmful silt to a small creek below. And since that creek leads to the Green River, where protected salmon spawn, it must be cleaned.
