U.S. Representative Rick Larsen announced today he has helped garner $6.18 million in federal funding for a new facility to train firefighters at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.
The funding is included in the military construction appropriations bill for fiscal year 2009. It was passed by the Appropriations Committee this week and must get approval in the House and Senate before it can be signed into law.
The more I thought about Rachel Ray winning an Emmy, the more I thought that I needed to write a warning to the world.
When my manifesto is translated into foreign tongues, I hope the children will learn.
My warning to the world
Rachel Ray will eat your children.
Republicans are still stoking the coals left from last week’s campaign cookout; a “telephone town hall” held to hold Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen’s feet over the ferry fire.
Earlier this week, state Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser again accused Haugen of using taxpayer money to finance a campaign event. The claim follows last week’s telephone town hall organized by a Republican-funded political action committee that took Haugen to task over the Keystone-Port Townsend ferry crisis.
Police have yet to identify the man killed in a motorcycle crash on South Whidbey Saturday.
The motorcyclist was killed on Highway 525 Saturday afternoon when he tried to pass a line of cars near Coles Road and lost control of his 2002 BMC chopper.
Reece Rose’s campaign for Island County commissioner is really cooking.
The Republican challenger in the race won the Bayview Senior Center’s contest for best chili Saturday.
I was recently informed by a fair-and-balanced news source that presidential hopeful Barack Obama was caught on film bumping fists with his wife Michelle.
A fishing crew rescued a kite surfer who was in trouble late yesterday near Double Bluff.
Coast Guard officials said the crew of the Northern Eagle pulled the 42-year old surfer from the water after the Coast Guard issued an “urgent marine information broadcast” to mariners in the area.
State lawyers hired to represent the public interest have asked the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission to reject the proposed sale of Puget Sound Energy to a foreign-based consortium.
More than 120 Falcons left the nest on Saturday as South Whidbey High School held its 2008 commencement ceremony.
Island County Auditor Sheilah Crider said today her office was wrong when it said three candidates for county commissioner had missed a crucial deadline for being included in the local voter’s guide.
In the first major fumble of the 2008 election in Island County, three candidates for county commissioner missed a deadline last week to be included in the local voter’s guide.
Only one candidate in the commissioner’s race for District 1 — Republican incumbent Phil Bakke — submitted a candidate’s statement and photo to be published in the guide.
Nobody else did. At least, not in time to make the deadline.
Despite the historic showing earlier in the 2008 campaign cycle, Democrats are trailing Republicans in donations to political campaigns in local races, according to an extensive review of campaign finance records.
Island County Commissioner John Dean said he will not make an endorsement in the four-way race for the District 1 position of Island County commissioner.
