Ms. Tosta is a Council Member for the City Of Burien and chairs their Aviation Committee. This letter was hastily started after their meeting tonight. I asked her to consider placing the following item on the agenda for the Committee’s next meeting: “How do we turn our resolutions into legislation?” Council Member, I wanted to
A Letter To The Port Of Seattle Commissioners (Part II)
As I wrote in the first part of this letter, you got two doses of my fantastic eloquence at the last general meeting. I said there were two points I wanted to make to flesh out what I said and this is the second. My first point concerned a less expensive and more efficient way
A Letter To The Port Of Seattle Commissioners
At today’s general meeting you got not one, but two doses of my fantastic eloquence. Lucky you. There were two points I wanted to make to flesh out what I said. It’s always hard (at least for me) to be that brief and actually make sense on such complex issues. Hopefully I’ll better make the
Fungibility
Can you say ‘fungibility’? Sure. I knew you could. Everyone involved with the fighting the Port Of Seattle should learn this word because it’s key to understanding the Port’s operations and their whole set of lame excuses as to why they can’t provide airport communities with mitigation and relief from the noise and pollution. Money
You Can’t Build Your Way Out Of This (A Letter To Mayor Matt Pina Of Des Moines)
Written after the City Council’s Study Session which covered the 2019 Legislative Agenda with a lot of emphasis on siting a second airport. Your Honour, Still awaiting a reply on my last letter. 😀 But I digress. There was much discussion tonight on the siting of a second airport. Although I certainly hope for another
*Why There Is No Second Airport In Site
I admit to a bit of Schadenfreüde whenever I attend a public forum of electeds where the potential siting of a second airport is to be discussed. Because I know I’ll be witnessing my electeds feeling frustrated, patronised and condescended to. Which is how I feel a hundred or so times a year when I
Who Has The Time?
Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. As a bit of a status report, I think that so far we’ve done a pretty good job of uploading a bunch of content. There’s still a of indexing to do so if you can’t find something, please write! The thing that we’ve definitely been remiss about is providing
A Letter To Mayor Matt Pina Of Des Moines
I wrote this letter to our mayor on November 2nd. On 8 November I received notice from the City Clerk that I would receive an official reply from the City. I have not heard back. I mention this only vb this to distinguish this letter from the dozens I have received no reply to where
Slide 29
Dear Commissioner, Regarding Slide 29 of today’s Tax Levy Presentation. (Where Commissioner Bowman opined that she wished the Port would do a better job explaining the benefits of the Tax Levy to the community.) Forgive me for saying so but you can’t really blame the public for having a tough time appreciating the benefits of
Letter To Dominic Gates
Dominic Gates is the Aviation Reporter for the Seattle Times. Hi again, We read with interest your articles this past weekend. Great work. I wanted to pass along one minor criticism. You quote Lance Lyttle as saying that he is severely limited by the FAA from helping residents in controlling noise and pollution in the