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
Well that’s a relief! SB5370
TVW Video (1:45:00) Just a quick note to give followers a bit of the sausage making in those whole boring process of SB5370. One nice thing about State business is that even the Executive Sessions are available on video. Ironically, this is one of their arguments against having full transparency of all documents. At the
JDA Journal: Washington State legislator’s Aviation Initiative
The only professional pilot in the Washington State legislature, District 13 Rep. Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake. has proposed four aviation specific bills: HB1683 to evaluate the best location for a new airport by a Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission established to evaluate the best location for a new airport HB 1456 would create a community aviation
Picking a location for a new airport, other aviation issues before lawmakers
OLYMPIA — Addressing the need for a new airport and encouraging the growth of the aviation profession was the topic of proposed legislation and public testimony, Thursday, at the House of Representatives Transportation Committee. The house heard four aviation specific bills all sponsored by the Legislature’s only professional pilot, District 13 Rep. Tom Dent, R-Moses
What’s Not To Like? HB1683
So I was back in Olympia last Thursday, this time at the House Transportation Committee to comment on HB1683, the companion to SB5370 which we talked about last time. TVW Video House Transportation Committee Feb 7 3:30PM (HB1683 begins @ 43:00) I made my feeble comments along with Des Moines City Councilor Traci Buxton and
House Transportation Committee Meeting on HB1683
Come to Olympia and support Tina Orwall’s bill to site a second airport. You can always keep updated on the progress of any bill here: HB1683
Second Airport: Arguing about capacity won’t work
I got several objections to my last post on SB5370 and specifically my public comment at the Senate Transportation Committee Hearing: Go to 57:00 But at the risk of sounding demagogic, I have to remind readers that our job is to tell the truth. And the truth is that siting a second airport will have
Our Co-dependent Love Affair SB5370
TVW Video (Discussion & Comments 40:00) Have you ever been in a relationship that you knew was bad for you? And not just you, I mean for both of you? But for any number of reasons, you just keep slugging it out, year after year. You (or they) keep telling yourself all the reasons it’s
SB 5370 (Siting a second regional airport)
A bill, co-sponsored by State Senator Karen Keiser, to site a second regional airport as an alternative to Sea-Tac International Airport. Follow the link to get e-mail notifications and provide your support. SB 5370 Original Bill