Colin Powell hints he'll use the incoming administration to finish up on some old business. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. A Thurston County judge has stopped local citizen review boards from authorizing a switch of existing water rights from agriculture to residential or industrial development. The city of Bremerton must speak with one voice in several upcoming decisions that affect economic development. As long as the dispute over who wields the power to run city government continues, the mayor and the council put progress at risk.
Many structural options face freeholders.
You won't be able to go to all their meetings, but you should start thinking now about what you want the freeholders to do. In its immediate effect, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling gave George W. Bush the presidency. But longer term, the extraordinarily bitter set of decisions this case has generated will taint this court with disquieting questions about its distance from the partisan fray. You won't be able to go to all their meetings, but you should start thinking now about what you want the freeholders to do. But teacher pay still needs legislative attention.