Juneteenth steps toward state holiday status
By Sydney Brown | Washington State Journal Rep. Kirsten Harris-Talley, D-Seattle, often sees her grandmother’s features when she looks in the mirror. She thinks of how her grandmother, a woman of color, experienced systemic racism and fought for a better life despite societal barriers in rural Missouri only a few generations before Harris-Talley. Harris-Talley told the […]
State Senate plans Saturday income tax vote
By Jason Mercier | Commentary Cancel your weekend plans. The income tax on capital gains (SB 5096) has been scheduled for a vote by the full Senate on Saturday. I am truly stunned that the Senate is poised to ram thru an income tax before what everyone expects to be a large increase in the March […]
Navient broke the law in servicing student loan debt
By Office of the Attorney General, Washington state | Press Release SEATTLE, Wash., March 5, 2021 — A King County Superior Court judge ruled that Navient, the country’s largest student loan servicer, violated the Consumer Protection Act by engaging in unfair and deceptive conduct related to Washingtonians’ student loans. This is the first time a judge […]
Snohomish County Vaccine Taskforce opens fifth mass vaccination site
Vaccination efforts are hitting another milestone this week as mobile clinics are completed at long-term care facilities and adult family homes in Snohomish County By Snohomish Health District | Press Release SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. – A fifth mass vaccination site for the county opened Friday at Angel Of The Winds Arena in Everett. It is […]
Two Lynnwood locals complete community projects, earn Eagle Scout rank
By Erin Freeman | Lynnwood Times Staff Lynnwood, Wash. – In efforts to earn scouting’s highest honor, a Meadowdale High School student worked to improve access on a wooded trail at Pioneer Park. 17-year-old Noah Reid of Troop 312 (pictured to the right in the featured image above) completed his Eagle Scout service project on […]
State of the City: Mukilteo will remain resilient in 2021
By Noel Pai-Young | Lynnwood Times Reporter Mukilteo, Wash., March 3, 2021 – On February 17, Mukilteo Mayor Jennifer Gregerson gave her annual State of the City address where she shared the city’s COVID-19 stats, city budget and administrative progress, public work improvements, and the announcement of the new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission. Gregerson […]
Month-long Art View event in Edmonds starting March
By Art Walk Edmonds | Lynnwood Times Staff A year is long enough without an Art Walk! Art Walk Edmonds is ready to re-start our beloved event, and has retooled it to be all month long rather than a one-night occurrence. These will continue monthly until we are able to safely hold our Third Thursday […]
RSJ Coordinator position brings to question whether the city ever implemented its hiring freeze
By Noel Pai-Young | Lynnwood Times Staff Lynnwood, Wash., February 27, 2021 – A motion to delay the Race and Social Justice (RSJ) Coordinator position passed at Monday’s city council meeting. Majority of the council stated that the work scope for the position was ambiguous and that the timing for the creation of a new […]
Larsen votes to protect public lands, rivers in Washington state, nationwide
By Office of Congressman Rick Larsen | Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) voted for a comprehensive wilderness and public lands protection bill which includes Representative Derek Kilmer’s legislation to designate more than 126,000 acres of public land as wilderness and nearly 460 miles of rivers and major tributaries as Wild […]
International WeLoveU Foundation volunteers take action to negate COVID-19’s impact on the nation’s blood supply
SEATTLE—This winter, volunteers from the International WeLoveU Foundation have been hosting blood drives across the United States to negate the impact of COVID-19 on the nation’s blood supply. Amid a flurry of pandemic related news and changes to daily life, the effect of coronavirus on the US blood supply has gone unnoticed by most. Typically, […]
