Two local groups that question Puget Sound Energy’s proposal to build 18 miles of new high voltage transmission lines on the Eastside will soon hear a response to their complaint filed in June with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
As of late last week, 33 ‘large’ fires were burning across Washington state and in Oregon — 20 in Washington alone.
What is it about people who think it is okay to bring a dog into a grocery store or a restaurant? The better question might be: Why doesn’t anyone object? While I love my own dog — a tiny elderly mini-Dachshund — I do not, would not, take him into a grocery or restaurant. And why? It is prohibited Washington food code, in conjunction with the FDA Food Code 2009 (See FDA Food Code 2009: Sec. 6-501.115 Prohibiting Animals).
Fifty years ago, on July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law as an amendment to the Social Security Act. In that year, almost half of those 65 and older in the United States, did not have health insurance. They lived in fear that getting sick or going to a doctor would send them and their families into poverty.
