The Federal Aviation Administration announced on Friday, April 5 that it would be delaying the closure of 149 air traffic control towers around the U.S., including the tower at Renton Municipal Airport.
Using Renton’s award-winning Talbot Hill Elementary School as his backdrop, Jay Inslee, Democratic contender for governor, said Thursday he would make schools and children’s futures the No. 1 priority as governor.
A briefing of the Renton City Council scheduled for Monday, Feb. 28, on the Quendall Terminals mixed-use project on Lake Washington has been moved to March 14.
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You’re more likely to get killed in a traffic accident involving speed in King County than anywhere else in the state.
That’s probably not surprising, given the county’s population and traffic load. Counting 2004 through 2008, speeding killed 246 people in King County, or 21 percent of the state’s total.
Beginning Friday for three weeks, about half of the state’s roughly 300 police agencies began taking part in the first-ever emphasis patrol targeting predetermined areas where speed is a known problem.
