DISH FROM THE COMMISH
Like all families in Kitsap County, local government is not immune to the global financial crisis and is faced with the challenge of balancing our pocketbooks by keeping rising costs in line with incomes. Kitsap County has worked hard to be excellent stewards of your tax dollars by reducing the cost of government. The Board of County Commissioners is committed to “living within our means.”
Transportation is a big issue nowadays. Between rising costs for materials and labor and shrinking budgets, it requires a certain amount of agility to do a good job at it. Unfortunately, that has not described the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) of late.
Sometimes adults tend to forget they’re supposed to be adults. We all do it. We all throw micro-tantrums when things don’t go our way.
If government could be run more like a business, what would our elected officials do differently?
Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written specifically for this feature. Today, Liv Finne, director of Center for Education at the Washington Policy Center, reports on the findings of a new study recommending changes to the state’s public education system.
Few are unaffected by the tightening economic squeeze, but the ones feeling the crunch the most are the nonprofit programs struggling to stay afloat during this financial mess.
Our perennial election day luncheon of political junkies didn’t do so hot this year compared to 2004. We blew it on four out of 16 prognostications, with one more still in the air at this writing.
Our perennial election day luncheon of political junkies didn’t do so hot this year compared to 2004. We blew it on four out of 16 prognostications, with one more still in the air at this writing.
Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written specifically for this feature. Today, Kitsap County Assessor Jim Avery responds to an earlier letter from an Independent reader regarding his office.
“Do you want what’s in the box or what’s behind door number three?”
To put it as simply as possible, the most effective way to deliver the most assistance to people in need in our community who are in distress is to give to United Way. Here in Kitsap County this is particularly true. United Way carefully and thoughtfully distributes the community’s donations to nonprofit agencies that can prove they make a difference. Money donated is carefully distributed to organizations on the basis of demonstrated results. Examples:
Charlotte Garrido, whose performance in her previous term as South Kitsap commissioner earned her an eight-year, voter-enforced hiatus from office, promised last week she’ll take a more balanced approach to her duties this time around.
Remember that great scene in “Bridge on the River Kwai” where Alec Guinness discovers the plot to blow up the bridge, and says, “What have I done?” before he and a couple of the plotters are killed?
Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written specifically for this feature. Today, Port Orchard resident Bruce Stigler takes issues with the mayor’s involvement in the city’s efforts to develop a “name brand.”
Tears of joy streamed down Democrats’ faces in the sardine-packed room on Tuesday night. There were smiles, hugs, high-fives and many, many tears. Democrats from all over Kitsap County gathered to watch history unfold. And it was historic history, at that.
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