Highline highlights: It’s a technicality

Contrary to my expectations, today’s Highline Forum was the most ‘content-rich’ affair I’ve been to in quite a while. If you weren’t there you shoulda been there. Or maybe I’ve been going to these pointless meetings for so long I’ve become so used to boredom that any excitement gets me hot and bothered. I don’t

A Letter To Adam Smith Re. ANCA

Dear Congressman, Per my public comment today. I would like you to consider creating legislation to provide some very minor changes to the 1990 ANCA law. I’ve included the specifics in the attachment. As you will see, the changes I would like to see represent a total of merely eleven (11) lines of text. In

Apparently mold is unhealthy. In a restaurant.

And in today’s news: Des Moines building with two restaurants closed due to serious health hazards Port Package Problems A bit of background: We’ve tried and tried for a couple of years now to raise the alarm on the issue of mold in homes with Port Packages. We were first alerted to the problem when

Priorities

I attended my first StART meeting in a while last night. The first thing I noticed was how ‘official’ it has become. By that I mean, it was sparsely attended, quiet and the attendees were engaged in some very fine-grained the work, mostly on the whole Glide Slope thing. The second half of the meeting

Sea-Tac Arabia

If you follow foreign affairs even a little bit, you’ve heard over the past decade or so how the Saudis are trying, with varying degrees of success, to spend their considerable fortune to actually move their economy away from selling fossil fuel products. They realize that ultimately this is a dead end strategy, if not

Sea-Tac Communities Plan Chapter 6 Maps (South Reinforcement Area, Program Application)

This is an excerpt from Chapter 6.6.5 of the Sea-Tac Communities Plan (1976). ‘Reinforcement’ was one of three types of planning that were considered. It refers to efforts to strengthen the existing community to be more compatible with the airport through the techniques of property buyouts (to create a noise buffer) and sound insulation.