By its very nature, a city budget is a bit of a bore, a bloodless document full of endless numbers.
In glancing at the preliminary budget for 2002, though, we were immediately struck – perhaps even smote – by the fact that the largest single expense category is something labelled “support for developers.”
At first blush, the city’s preliminary budget looks badly askew.
Viewed by percentages, the largest item of spending for the coming year is labeled “support for developers.” The budget item totals over $3.2 million – almost 20 percent of the operations budget – in 2002.
It begins, as such matters often do, with the coquettish wiggle of a tail.
With a like-minded mate, that wiggle becomes a spirited, frenzied flapping, and a brief but intense union on a bed of loose gravel into which will be committed the seed of the next generation.
Give the event sufficient vigor – two salmon can indeed make quite a ruckus – and even the neighbors may notice.
For Bainbridge activist/authors Linda Wolf and Neva Welton, writing “Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century” has served personal ends, and larger ones.
As a Superfund environmental cleanup rolls on around it, an old house needs a new home.
Local historians hope to preserve the former Wyckoff plant’s sole remaining row house, believed to be of pre-World War I construction and the last of 17 that were part of the company town called Creosote.
Despite the common perception of rapid change, Bainbridge is a rather stable community, according to two new surveys that shed light on island demographics.
But we are not economically independent or isolated.
Note to AT&T Broadband: Islanders like their Mariners games. All of them.
Second note: They’re perfectly happy to drop cable for satellite dishes, when the service of the local provider falls short.
On the home front, the environment still matters.
Touring the Wyckoff Superfund site Saturday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell pledged support for completion of cleanup projects around the Northwest, even as the nation’s attention is focused abroad.
Lies are true in author George Shannon’s books.
They are just not the whole truth.
Shannon’s new collection “More True Lies; Eighteen Tales for You to Judge” invites young readers to resolve paradoxes embedded in language.
AT&T Broadband’s buyout of the Northland cable TV franchise on Bainbridge Island will require approval by the city.
The event is island-grown, but the guitarist is an import.
For world-renowned guitarist Bill Frisell, who moved to Bainbridge a year ago, an appearance with a roster of local artists at the Nov. 11 “Homespun” variety show marks his first island gig.
“It’s good to be playing at home,” Frisell says, “and I’m looking forwaThe event is island-grown, but the guitarist is an import.
For world-renowned guitarist Bill Frisell, who moved to Bainbridge a year ago, an appearance with a roster of local artists at the Nov. 11 “Homespun” variety show marks his first island gig.
“It’s good to be playing at home,” Frisell says, “and I’m looking forward to getting up there with Robin (Holcomb, vocals) and Dan (Barnes, banjo).”rd to getting up there with Robin (Holcomb, vocals) and Dan (Barnes, banjo).”
When Suzanne Selfors and her daughter Isabelle Ranson disembark from the schooner “Sea Scout” at Alki Point next Tuesday, they will be retracing the steps of ancestors.
Selfors and Ranson with other descendants of Seattle’s first white settlers – the Bells, Borens, Dennys, Lows and Terrys – will be recreating the Nov. 13, 1851 debarkation from the schooner “Exact” to kick off a year-long celebration of Seattle’s 150th anniversary.
Voter support for an $8 million open space levy didn’t surprise Mayor Dwight Sutton. The level of that support – 68 percent – did.
“It’s a great outcome,” said Sutton, who proposed the levy earlier this year and shepherded it to Tuesday’s ballot.
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