Both Washingtons are in a financial bind. In our nation’s capital, President Obama and Congress are running trillion-dollar budget deficits and our national debt will soon exceed $14 trillion.
How much is that? To pay back $14 trillion, you’d have to spend $1 each second for the next 448,000 years.
Electric cars are the new wave in automobile technology. Many see them as the way to cut greenhouse gas emissions…
The Covington IHOP celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon cutting ceremony Dec. 1.
Even though voters rejected Initiative 1082, which would have allowed private insurers to write workers’ compensation insurance in our state, the need to reform the system has become even greater. It has become too costly for employers and too cumbersome for injured workers, and in 2011, rates will increase an average of 12 percent.
MultiCare and city officials participated in a groundbreaking ceremony Nov. 10 at the Covington Urgent Care site to commemorate 24-hour emergency department the health care facility is building.
For too many Americans, the last three Thanksgivings have been pretty lean. Our nation is suffering from the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Particularly
In 1992, a single male sockeye salmon managed to swim 900 miles from the mouth of the Columbia River to Redfish Lake in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, the end of his migratory journey. Biologists dubbed him “Lonesome Larry.”
Jay Buhner, Seattle Mariners Hall of Fame player, and the Mariner Moose kicked off the grand opening of the Lake Wilderness KeyBank branch Saturday morning.
A line of youngsters and adults received autographs and took pictures with the former right fielder and slugger along with the Mariner Moose.
Regional administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration
After the Recovery Act passed in February 2009, the Small Business Administration was able to help about 70,000 small businesses get our recovery loans to help keep doors open, shelves stocked and employees paid.
For most small businesses, these last two years have been anything but “business as usual.”
So what’s a local business owner to do? For those of you who have played sports or love watching sports, you know the answer. It’s the old football adage: The best defense is a good offense.
The Maple Valley Economic Development Committee and the Greater Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce announced the buy local campaign with the introduction of the Maple Valley Power Card.
The goal of the card is to help those participating save while raising awareness of the products and services available locally.
Over the last month, France has been wracked by a series of protests and strikes that threaten the nation’s economy. Angry mobs set fires and battled with police as strikes shut down the country’s rail system, buses, oil refineries, ports and garbage collection.
Flipping all kinds of pancakes became a hot item in Covington this week.
John Khauv opened an International House of Pancakes restaurant, also known by its acronym IHOP, in Covington featuring 16 different types of pancakes ready for flipping and serving to hungry customers.
Seattle Mariners Hall of Fame player Jay Buhner will help launch the new KeyBank branch in Maple Valley Saturday, Nov. 13.
The question Washington voters should ask themselves before voting on a state income tax this fall is, “Will we be better off with an income tax?” Judging from experience, the answer is, “No.”
Initiative 1098 would impose a 5 percent income tax on individual income over $200,000 and $400,000 for a couple. In addition, the measure would reduce some business-and-occupation taxes for small businesses and reduce property taxes by about 4 percent.
That might sound reasonable to some, but experience tells us that a state income tax is a bad idea.
First, economists agree that it’s never a good idea to raise taxes in a recession. Increasing the tax burden on small employers – many of whom file taxes as individuals – makes it harder for them to add or retain employees.
Portions of the new national health-reform law are just now going into effect, but the impact is already being felt. Insurers are warning of higher premiums and some companies say the law will force them to eliminate employee health insurance coverage.
More than a dozen restaurants in Covington are participating in the Purple Light Nights Bite of Covington as part of the campaign headed up by the Covington Domestic Violence Task Force during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
KeyBank is opening its new location known as the Lake Wilderness Branch in Maple Valley at 23928 225th Way S.E.
It is the second branch in the city for the Cleveland-based bank.
Kirk Lantier will be moving from the management of the Four Corners KeyBank branch to the new bank.
Our founding fathers envisioned a government by the people. In fact, in his Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln concluded with the words, “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
In the last few years, we’ve forgotten Lincoln’s words. We now have government by regulation and it is paralyzing our nation.
KeyBank will open the a branch in its Puget Sound expansion program Oct. 18 at 23928-225th Way S.E in Maple Valley.
This will be the second branch in Maple Valley for the Cleveland-based corporation.
