This is a follow up letter to a previous letter I wrote to the editor.
At a forum at Lockwood Elementary it was disconcerting to listen to Dawn McCravey’s response to questions asked of her.
More and more politicians are stating that they are pro-choice.
As a past Chamber president and a local real estate broker with Keller Williams, I am encouraging all of you to consider voting for Proposition 2, the levy for Kirkland parks, in November.
Recently, a Referendum 47 yard sign in support of Marriage Equality was removed from our property.
They say that engaging in politics is like watching sausage being made. Last year I got a frightening glimpse of how Democrat Rosemary McAuliffe, Washington State Senator in the 1st Legislative District wanted to gather more meat for the State Sausage Machine.
From the beautiful waterfront parks, often referred to as a “string of pearls,” to the stunning nature parks, to the first class sports fields, to the series of family friendly neighborhood parks; we in Kirkland are very fortunate to have such a high quality park system.
My son was born at Evergreen, and grew up by Van Aalst Park. At Peter Kirk Park, he perfected his monkey bar skills, bought bubble gum, and once got to put a baseball through the return.
Proposition 2 is the Kirkland parks levy and if passed will add 16 cents per $1,000 of assessed value to your property taxes each year.
Prop 2 will help the Green Kirkland Partnership. This volunteer program is amazingly successful and the benefits are huge to the entire community and to every one of us. Since the program started, 38 acres of natural areas are in restoration, more than 20,000 native trees and shrubs have been planted and more than 37,000 hours of volunteer work have been logged.
I read with interest the recent letter to the editor on Sept. 21, that warrants a reply.
The letter writer stated he was “appalled” by the audacity of this “young fellow” to shake him out of his comfortable slumber by expressing his political opinion.
I’ve been a Kirkland resident for 24 years, and the things I love best about living here are the water, parks, trails and green spaces. That’s why I’ll be voting for Proposition 2, the Levy for Kirkland Parks, in November.
The letter writer supporting Kirkland’s Prop 2 is not very well informed. Kirkland’s budget has never been less than the year before. It always grows at a rate four times faster than our cost of living allowance. The money is already there. Taking more than they need to run the City has serious consequences on fixed income citizens and on the earned income of people trying to make ends meet.
A year and a half later, citizens are more involved and more incensed than ever about the Potala project on Lake Street and 10th Avenue South. That was clearly apparent by the huge turnout for the city council study session Sept. 18 on amendments to our commercial zoning code as developed and presented by the Planning Commission – at the City Council’s request.
Education in this State, as in so many other states across this nation, is suffering from a plethora of problems.
In a recent editorial in the Kirkland Reporter, Jeff Jared suggested that privatizing the Peter Kirk pool and the Lee Johnson field would be a better use of public assets by introducing a profit motive incentivized by letting these facilities operate under the management of private business owners. Mr. Jared’s assumption is that these assets could become profitable, if only they weren’t in the hands of government.
Well, it’s not the 12 units/acre residential density cap the Planning Department gave Lobsang Dargey on Dec. 3, 2009, before he entered into any purchase or lease agreements for the three-parcel patchwork of properties he cobbled together for his proposed mega-block Potala Village on Lake Street South, Lake Washington Boulevard and 10th Ave. South.
Another Potala condo in the Market Street Area? Not on your life!
The city planners and council have made a preemptive strike to limit any further building in that area to a density to 24 units per acre.
It amazes me to read stories such as that concerning Kelly Ann Hudson in the Aug. 31 issue of theReporter. Here’s a woman who was driving in the evening after admitting to taking medication and drinking wine, weaving across the center line causing a head-on crash with another vehicle resulting in the death of one passenger and severe injuries to others.
Mr. Villeneuve,
I think you missed the point of the GOP convention. It’s the economy!
When President Obama took over, unemployment was at 7.8 percent and it is now 8.1 percent with 40 continuous months of unemployment over 8 percent. The American Recovery and Reinvestment act was supposedly a guarantee to keep unemployment under 8 percent.
