Posted Fri, Apr 20, 11:06 a.m.

I guess Mr Bozeman forgot about his opportunity to create private sector jobs to prevent stormwater pollution in Bellevue that dumps into Lake Sammamish and Lake Washington and chose to get on the same bureaucracy wagon as our wonderful governor, he so dissed.

Posted Wed, Apr 11, 5:41 p.m.

Groupon needs to help the little guy, I have seen some great restaurants go by the wayside for whatever reasons. In this economy we shouldn't encourage businesses to fail, we are all in it together.

Posted Tue, Apr 3, 2:24 p.m.

all the while the politicians spend billions on an election they can't win with honesty, integrity or character.

Posted Sat, Mar 31, 5:03 a.m.

I bet no one takes you up on the bet, LOL @ save the sound by 2020 herd the sheep by 2012,,,,baaaa

Posted Thu, Mar 29, 5:06 p.m.

ad hominem- is that the same thing as going to a public hearing only to have the deck stacked against you with government employees urging for more bureaucracy? or like the majority of the citizens voting on an issue only to have government reverse it?

Posted Wed, Mar 14, 10:15 a.m.

What? no prevailing wage clause?

Posted Tue, Mar 13, 4:55 a.m.

Seattle has no money so let's build sidewalks? Must be a sidewalk sale giving away free sidewalks. Do what the City of Shoreline does, plant trees between the sidewalk and the road so that eventually you need to replace the sidewalk. Sidewalks don't cost any money and trees are free. ...

Posted Wed, Mar 7, 3:17 p.m.

When did Puget Sound get cleaned up or restored? I missed that part of the article. Just because government throws money at an issue doesn't mean squat. For the record, in order to clean up or restore Puget Sound you HAVE TO start at the storm drains and catch basins ...

Posted Mon, Mar 5, 6:13 p.m.

what randy said

Posted Mon, Mar 5, 5:02 a.m.

I didn't read anything about the urgency to prevent pollution from stormwater runoff effecting lamphrey's habitat. One would think that if the lamphrey clings to rocks to get to its spawning area it would be similar to the barnacles around Puget Sound. Once oil off roadways coat the rocks along ...

Posted Fri, Mar 2, 2:03 p.m.

Norm Dicks will get a job in the private sector from the people he helped the most. He brought home the bacon and the taxpayers got the grease.

Posted Fri, Mar 2, 1:56 p.m.

When Norm Rice was Mayor of Seattle the agenda was to be completed in 2010. Remember the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority or the Puget Sound Action Team? Puget Sound Partnership is the same do-nothing unaccountable and no enforcement capabilities agency. The science is there, just ask any weatherperson, after ...

Posted Fri, Mar 2, 5:16 a.m.

What a waste of taxpayer dollars. The questions you should of asked, How is the NPDES going to stop pollution? especially the pollution running off parking lots, highways? Why are there so many government agencies involved in stormwater? Why can't you just use filters manufactured locally that remove pollutants from ...

Posted Wed, Feb 29, 3:10 p.m.

So if stormwater is streamlined does this mean Department of Ecology and all stormwater municipalities employees will lose their jobs? Currently with all the government employees stealing the lionshare of funds Puget Sound will never benefit. Seems like this is another chicken little story. I get tired of hearing about ...

Posted Mon, Feb 27, 6:51 p.m.

If the parks department quit driving around avoiding work, and actually did what they are paid to do we wouldn't be in this mess,,,duh

Posted Mon, Feb 27, 6:50 p.m.

If the parks department quit driving around avoiding work, and actually did what they are paid to do we wouldn't be in this mess,,,duh

Posted Mon, Feb 27, 6:45 p.m.

Build now, pay later,,,,the american way

Posted Mon, Feb 27, 6:41 p.m.

Puget Sound Partnership is worthless, no authority to enforce squat and no enforcement capabilities to achieve squat.... throw it under the bus.

Posted Thu, Feb 16, 5:09 a.m.

These couple of comments in the article caught my eye and need to be repeated in case it isn't obvious to anyone else depleted reserves; high fixed costs; the use of one-time budget fix-it measures; the state's above-average debt; borrowing against future revenues; reliance on an accounting measure to put ...

Posted Wed, Feb 15, 4:57 a.m.

Our state is already the laughing stock of the country, this just proves how out of touch our legislature is. I mean really, balancing the budget by diverting payments for school buses? Building another floating bridge when the one we have works just fine, or tearing down a viaduct when ...

Posted Tue, Feb 14, 11:06 a.m.

what a total waste of taxpayer dollars over and over again. Let's create a bunch of local jobs where we have to reinvent the wheel and never address the real problem. $8 million only? How much is it costing us for studying, analyzing, interpreting, communicating and delaying the inevitable? How ...

Posted Sat, Feb 11, 3:26 a.m.

The bigger story in the Puget Sound Partnership fiasco is that the government has monopolized in preventing any solutions to preventing pollution, whether its federal, state, counties and cities. There's no money left anywhere to pay for a solution. The solution to pollution would create real jobs in manufacturing, recycled ...

Posted Sun, Feb 5, 5:01 a.m.

wonderful or worthless?

Posted Thu, Feb 2, 5:06 p.m.

Amazing that no one wants to do anything that creates private sector jobs that can and does remove tangible amounts of toxic sludge from stormwater runoff if installed in a catch basin. Instead the agencies that are paid to prevent and protect us from pollution, because we pays for it ...

Posted Thu, Feb 2, 4:50 p.m.

Great article,,,,too bad the DOE doesn't have the same vigilance at every drive thru restaurant where 2 cups of oil dripping daily is the norm. Then when it rains it kills any chance of salmon surviving because nothing prevents that oil from reaching the creeks, stream, lake, or Puget Sound. ...

Posted Wed, Jan 25, 2:41 p.m.

Salmon can survive on their own if we quit destroying and polluting their habitat. Our government spends billions on preventing any sustainability. Doesn't anyone else see this?

Posted Tue, Jan 17, 12:08 p.m.

Dear Legislature, Stormwater is a sensitive issue for me. Its been 20 years since I went through the "process" of trying to get a filter for storm drains recogized as a viable solution to stormwater pollution. When I started out no one had heard of a filter for storm drains. ...

Posted Fri, Dec 30, 2:55 p.m.

Why not include the comments from the original posting as well? As I recall the comments were the "Best" part of the article. The article is the same ole same ole jargon that doesn't have any response from critics tired of watching Puget Sound being flushed down a toilet while ...

Posted Sat, Aug 20, 5:05 a.m.

I don't have to read the article to know there are two economies. One is government, the other is middle class. My revenue is also governments revenue, this is where i see the problem. Governments revenue is made up of taxes from the middle class, plain and simple. Won't be ...

Posted Wed, Aug 17, 4:16 p.m.

I am sure Mr Ruckleshaus is a nice guy and all and yes he is a pioneer in protecting the environment, but let's get serious. If a river is burning common sense says we should deal with it. But today the river's aren't burning, they are absorbing. Absorbing heavy metals, ...

Posted Tue, Jul 26, 4:42 p.m.

I applaud Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, they're futuristic thinkers there and they "get it done" kudos

Posted Fri, Jul 22, 4:09 p.m.

This article makes me think that Roger is paving the way for the teardown of the viaduct and is sidetracking the topic to avoid saying "the developers have bought and paid off politicians in order to build 100-story condos along the waterfront, and your view will be worthless, compared to ...

Posted Fri, Jul 22, 10:40 a.m.

With the talk of tolling, why not let private industry build the tunnel and collect tolls? Answer: A.because it's a bad idea B.private industry won't make as much if the City foots the bill C.too many "what ifs" D.All of the above With the need to stabilize the Viaduct and ...

Posted Tue, Jul 19, 4:39 p.m.

should i repeat it?

Posted Tue, Jul 19, 4:37 p.m.

how many times have we voted against something and the powers that be build it anyway? wake up folks

Posted Tue, Jul 19, 4:37 p.m.

how many times have we voted against something and the powers that be build it anyway? wake up folks

Posted Tue, Jul 19, 4:37 p.m.

how many times have we voted against something and the powers that be build it anyway? wake up folks

Posted Tue, Jul 19, 4:37 p.m.

how many times have we voted against something and the powers that be build it anyway? wake up folks

Posted Mon, Jul 18, 6:46 p.m.

its called "tunnel vision"

Posted Sat, Jul 9, 5:06 a.m.

These so called environmentalists are still trying to figure out why Puget Sound is polluted and where the pollution is coming from. Common sense isn't their strong point.

Posted Tue, Jul 5, 5:41 p.m.

I still think the the viaduct can be supported by all the developers interested in taking over the viaduct IF it were to be demolished. Build your condo's underneath it and put the seawall in front of it....DUH! and lets make this happen as lickity split as the bike lane ...

Posted Fri, Jun 17, 4:24 p.m.

Somewhere along the line there was an acronym at Department of Ecology that would have prevented a lot of bullpuckey and redundancies. AKART- All Known And Reasonable Technologies, it was a simple solution that was eliminated in Department of Ecology's Stormwater Manual due to it encroaching on governments monopoly of ...

Posted Thu, Jun 9, 4:39 p.m.

We could beat this to death, but the government needs to bleed the taxpayers for more. Government monopoly+ no private sector jobs= recession with benefits. Just keep voting the same old nimrods into office, no one cares and nothing will change, doo-dah doo-dah

Posted Tue, Jun 7, 4:50 a.m.

Anything article coming from Lisa Stiffler in my opinion is paid for by lobbyists pushing for more gubment bureaucracy to study it to death. Lisa gives investigative reporting a whole new meaning.

Posted Mon, May 30, 3:17 p.m.

I wasn't sure if you were dissing on Trader Joe's or not? Every store has their niche, and Trader Joe's appears to have good quality food at a reasonable price. It's one of my favorite store's to shop. Costco is a good store, but i can't afford to go there ...

Posted Fri, May 20, 3:13 p.m.

One thing that was left out,,, campaign finance reform. We need to take notice to who is influencing whom and how things got the way they are. As far as the debt ceiling, no more debt,,,,cut the czars, renegotiate union contracts, eliminate redundancies and cut all middle managers to make ...

Posted Wed, May 18, 5:05 a.m.

I call it the "instant gratification generation". Seems to me the poor have more than the middle class. The poor are the ones with a shopping cart full of groceries or driving new cars,,,,what's up with that?

Posted Mon, May 9, 4:48 a.m.

Myth: "Stormwater projects involve a lot of heavy construction — think excavation, concrete pours, large-diameter pipes — so they would generate construction-industry jobs. Not surprisingly, some labor unions have supported the idea. Stormwater projects also cost a lot of money that city and county governments, which are legally obligated to ...

Posted Sat, May 7, 5:16 a.m.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2014985104_guest07shea.html

Posted Thu, May 5, 5:06 a.m.

any wonder why our economy is in the dumper?

Posted Wed, Apr 27, 3:25 p.m.

The way it works, by the time there is a public hearing or a study session it isn't because the government cares about what the taxpayer footing the bill wants, they already made up their mind. Whether its a stadium, highway, parks, stormwater, development, or your future, it doesn't matter. ...

Posted Wed, Apr 27, 6:23 a.m.

NO ONE CARES ABOUT POLLUTED STORMWATER !!!! Just ask Norm Rice, Gary Locke, Christine Gregoire , Greg Nickels, Larry Phillips etc., they are all for process, not progress. If our government did, they would have used my enviro-drain stormwater filters to prevent pollution from entering catch basins and required businesses ...

Posted Tue, Apr 26, 5:06 a.m.

Government has monopolized stormwater as their cash cow,,,any questions?

Posted Tue, Apr 26, 5:03 a.m.

if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck,,,, In reality a ditch that infiltrates stormwater is a great idea to curb overflow into the sewer system. But to allow pollutants to flow into these ditches with oil, pesticides, soaps etc. contaminate soil and groundwater. Where's the prefilter? ...

Posted Wed, Apr 13, 5:15 a.m.

People for Puget Sound is a joke! I have watched People for Puget Sound for 20 years with scare tactics and brown nosing claiming to "protect" Puget Sound. People for Puget Sound prays on people wanting to make a difference by donating to their cause, still not sure what that ...

Posted Sat, Mar 5, 4:42 p.m.

this was a comment from another article that i think relates: But that's the fault of the corporate media, that slavishly repeats every idiot idea that the Grand Hypocricy Party puts out. Now they're repeating the line that only cuts for public services- roads, teachers, firefighters, cops, can solve our ...

Posted Tue, Jan 4, 6:42 a.m.

First of all,,, Start by cutting the Dept of Ecology, they should enforce the Stormwater pollution laws, Period,,,, not perpetuate the bureaucracy hiring full time finger pointers. If DOE enforced the laws, businesses could spend their hard earned dollars on fixing their pollution problem, instead, businesses have to pay DOE ...

Posted Wed, Dec 29, 2:41 p.m.

Start with EPA,,,, Then Dept of Ecology,,,, whatever happened to enforcing the NPDES? why has the state been allowed to monopolize stormwater pollution? the reason there is no accountability, because their is no one in charge,,,,everyone assumes the bureaucrats know best. I saw this coming 20 years ago,,,, don't enforce ...