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2019-03-01
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 -
League Of Quiet Skies Voters Announced
Citizen groups and activists from communities neighboring Sea-Tac Airport, including Quiet Skies Puget Sound, Burien’s Quiet Skies Coalition, the Federal Way Air Noise Alliance, and The Briefing Project, have formed the new “League of Quiet Skies Voters,” to assure that impacts from recent and proposed airport expansion on human health and the environment are a -
Port Of Seattle Commission Meeting (SAMP Update)
The Port of Seattle Commission will be briefed on the SAMP Near-Term Projects Scoping report. This is a reschedule of the meeting originally set forTuesday, February 12th. This session is open to the public. The Commission meeting location is at Sea-Tac Airport, 17801 International Blvd, Seattle, WA, in the Conference Center on the Mezzanine level -
Washington lawmakers wrestle with how to purge greenhouse gases from state power supply
The coal plant in Colstrip, Montana, is partly owned by Puget Sound Energy. The plant sends power to Washington, but under bills pending in the state Environmentalists are pushing for 100 percent clean power by 2045, while utilities are wary of the costs and risks of leaving behind all fossil fuel-generated electricity. By Hal Bernton -
A Letter To Michael Matthias re. Port Packages
Michael Matthias is the City Manager of The City Of Des Moines. He also chairs the City’s Airport Committee, serves as the City’s Economic Development Director, sits on the StART Committee and represents the City on the State Environmental Impact Study. This letter is in regard to public comments I made at the General City -
Des Moines City Council Meeting
Regular Meeting at City Hall. Highlights include ILA w Normandy Park for Senior Services and agreement w Verizon for cellular tower access. -
Therma-Stor Fresh 80 Replacement Filters
If you have a Port Package, these are replacement filters for Fresh 80 vents. -
Therma-Stor Fresh 80 Air Filters
If you have a Port Package, you likely have these air filters in two spots in your house. Many people have no idea what they do, but they are important to the health of you and your Port Package and your house so you should learn how they work. First of all, you should change -
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.