I recently attended a meeting sponsored by our local legislators. Many of our local teachers and college people expressed their wish for a pay raise as they hadn't had one for years, which is true.
I wish to congratulate Kent School Board President Debbie Straus for her recent, expertly negotiated, three-year contract for Calvin Watts, Kent’s new school district superintendent.
The May 1 political cartoon is not correct. Under the Republican plan, current revenue from taxes will allow for an increased spending of 8 percent ...
On page one of the May 1 edition of the Kent Reporter, there are stories about the city taking in $1 million from the school traffic cameras in one year and a story about city park facilities falling apart due to lack of funding.
We want to thank you for continuing to have conversations about the business and occupation (B&O) tax.
Mayor Suzette Cooke’s statement (“Kent seeks applicants for city’s new Financial Sustainability Task Force”, Kent Reporter website) that a limit on property tax increases of 1 percent per year is the underlying structural problem in the budget process is factually incorrect.
The Washington State Food Assistance Program was reduced by 50 percent in the 2012 legislative session, half of which was restored in 2013, in the midst of the Great Recession.
The Kent Chamber of Commerce wishes to express our support for the Kent Valley Regional Trail Connector project, proposed to connect the Green River Trail and the Interurban Trail.
The proposal to excavate, irrigate and landscape the medians on Pacific Highway South is one of the most ludicrous and wasteful schemes to come out of City Hall in recent months.
This is in response to the guest editorial printed on March 27 by a King County official about the Affordable Care Act.
I understand that the Kent Reporter does not have the money to hire a good cartoonist and I understand that Frank Shiers Jr.’s politics are different than my own.
I was appalled at an article I read in the (Feb. 27) Kent Reporter about a homeless man getting ticketed for sleeping under a bridge in his sleeping bag.
I agree with Mr. Richard Brandau's letter ("Against pay raise for mayor", March 13, Kent Reporter), but what do you expect when you attract people for the position of mayor at $102,000 like Suzette Cooke?
Today, as I sit in my broker's office at Kent Station's Coldwell Banker Bain Real Estate, reading the Kent Reporter article on how the elephants will be removed from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, my mind drifts back to the hot summer day in 1975.
It seems that Mayor (Suzette) Cooke is only concerned that her salary should be comparable to the salaries of mayors of similar-sized cities.
It’s startling to see that elephants will no longer be in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Frankly, I'm very surprised our local legislators are actively supporting, or appear to support, SB 5893 and HB 1930.
Great job by the Kent Police Department for the arrest of the two men responsible for the graffiti that was displayed all over downtown Kent.
In last week’s Reporter, Ms. Edenholm wrote, “Congressman Reichert supports me by voting for a 40-hour, full-time work week.”
I am so sick and tired of the endless whining about funding schools when there is a very simple solution.
