Posted Wed, Aug 3, 11:15 a.m.

Would have been good to have interviewed some of the key players in the Elwha restoration in the Port Angeles area to get their opinion on this hatchery, rather than just make assumptions based on other rivers. While you might be right, I would have like to have heard from ...

Posted Thu, Apr 16, 1:01 p.m.

And the battle over the Shoreline Master Program (SMP)updates along with Critical Areas Ordinances in Watcom and Jefferson counties pit poor rural county protections against development (and job) needs. Think it's a side battle? The main players helping the anti SMP & CAO forces are thinly disguised fronts for the ...

Posted Wed, Jan 14, 8:01 a.m.

And while we wistfully wait for these technologies to bear fruit, and continue to trash the idea of monorail here, we are being forcefed a 'big Dig' for a small stretch of road that will take up vastly more of our resources (taxes, etc), than the monorail ever would have, ...

Posted Tue, Dec 16, 12:26 p.m.

When it comes to protecting Puget Sound, it's the old song, with new lyrics. "Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die." Everybody wants to save the Sound, but nobody wants to say no to more industrial development on shores that spawn the fish. It raises grave ...

Posted Mon, Aug 25, 1:59 p.m.

The losers? All of us: Good rollup on the issues. However, you are only partially right in saying that the environmentalists are the losers. What has been lost is any vestige of really saving Puget Sound and the salmon streams that feed it. The Sound is in trouble, and pretending ...

Posted Thu, Aug 7, 5:11 p.m.

One thing I'm concerned about what you write...: I get nervous when I read, "Huge torrents of money dedicated to environmental good works already flow through government agencies and the western Washington economy. If those cash flows were channeled into projects that would help preserve and restore Puget Sound, the ...

Posted Thu, Jun 26, 6:14 a.m.

RE: Old White Male Farts Against Light Rail: Yeah, I guess all our founding fathers were just a bunch of rich old white farts (like Benjamin Franklin) wining about English taxation without representation. Their whining is just fine with me. Attacking some of the people who want to criticize a ...

Posted Thu, Jun 26, 6:07 a.m.

RE: LRT is not commuter rail: Electricity will get a whole lot more expensive as we produce a fleet of electric cars. I don't think we've seen anything yet as it relates to electricity costs. And if the powers that be have their way, we will have more nuclear and ...

Posted Thu, Jun 26, 6:04 a.m.

RE: Where was Doug?: I don't know about "spending dollars without laying one mile of track". I think every project needs to do that. But to be clear, and not to belabor the fact, in Europe and Japan, which are different from us but yet very similar, businesspeople, construction workers ...

Posted Mon, Jun 23, 8:22 a.m.

Well, well. Maybe we should force all the Sound Transit proponents to ride the bus: After helping fight against the stupidity of spending vast amounts of our tax dollars on the silly light rail proposals, it's wonderful to read someone who used to be in a high position in Olympia ...

Posted Wed, Jun 18, 11:12 p.m.

Buses, cars and living close to work.: We are seeing a sea change in people's attitudes, but it still hasn't done enough to get them out of their cars in large enough numbers. Rail just won't cut it, except for us to expand routes between large urban areas. Rail will ...

Posted Tue, Jun 10, 9:03 a.m.

A most absurd proposal: I have no idea what politically correct nonsense drove this, but I totally agree with your post, that banning these fires is about a trivial a proposal as anyone could put forward. As the quality of life continues to decline, to take away these fun activities ...

Posted Mon, Apr 28, 11:46 p.m.

Missing something in analysis: Stuka & others say it well. One other thing to mention, is that, since Royer's day, the city has gone from a city of poverty ("last one out...") with the Boeing bust, to a city of enormous wealth. I like to say that the vortex of ...

Posted Fri, Feb 8, 9:38 a.m.

Funding for cleanup should be broad based and focus on infrastructure: Good wrap up of the issues facing PS cleanup. My feeling on getting the $ is that, we ought to be looking at "true costs" of major projects, like large scale construction projects (i.e malls, suburbs) that cover large ...