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Bellevue man suspected of skimming BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks to reporters with Sound Publishing on Friday, Oct. 25, about his goal for a legislative agreement on a state transportation plan by the Apple Cup in late November. CRAIG GROSHART, Bellevue Reporter
Gov sets deadline for transportation plan BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
Before an Apple Cup champion emerges, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says he wants to see an approved transportation bill on his desk crafted through a bipartisan effort and identifying $10 billion in revenue sources needed to keep the state’s roads and bridges from
failing. “November is the month for action here,” Inslee told a room full of Sound Publishing editors and reporters on Friday, Oct. 25. “Actually, April and May were the months.” The governor said he is disappointed the Senate was unable to come up with a transportation bill after six months while the House passed its
legislation. Senate Republicans opted not to approve the House bill in favor of launching a listening tour in Washington to find ways to find savings through reforms before pushing for tax increases. Inslee said there is a need for reform, which is already occurring within the Washington State Department of Transportation with the appointment
of Lynn Peterson as head of the agency, as well as making improvements to permitting processes, cutting fat from projects, streamlining maintenance and leaner management of the transportation department. Peterson also attended the Sound Publishing meeting.
The Secret Service is investigating a Bellevue man’s involvement with a possible skimming plot originating in his home country in the Republic of Moldova and later with the discovery of multiple gift cards at his home believed to have been used to encode stolen credit card information. A package destined for Burien was halted at a Moldovan post office in September and found to contain a skimmer ( a device used to obtain credit card information to produce counterfeit cards), Cirlig a USB device, a rectangleshaped device fitted with a camera and a power supply, according to an affidavit for search warrant filed in King County Superior Court. The Secret Service allowed the package to be delivered to the intended recipient as part of its investigation. According to the affidavit, the package was delivered by a postal inspector and Secret Service agent to the Burien man at the Bellevue Library near where the man works at the Danube Bistro. The man told the agent he agreed to receive the package from a friend, a 23-year-old Moldovan native he
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‘Life on Nubis’ author talks tech, economics and whether man will be displaced BY DANIEL NASH BELLEVUE REPORTER
Technology is changing; perhaps more rapidly than at any point in history. Do we know what the future will look like even 20 years from now? A decade? Five? One Sammamish author and futurist, Robert Harken, has taken a look at two possible fu-
tures — both fewer than 30 years away — and what they would mean for humanity. Harken published “Snow Falling,” a short story about a woman fighting for privacy and survival in a social media-driven economy, in November. “Life on Nubis,”
his novel about interplanetary exodus after humanity’s displacement by hyper-efficient machines, was released in January to acclaim from the Midwest Book Review. Harken Harken will speak publicly about technological developments and the
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porter.com. Reporter: Had you written fiction prior to “Snow Falling” and “Life on Nubis?” What inspired you to begin publishing your stories? Robert: My writing prior to “Snow Falling” and Life on Nubis primarily focused on business
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consequences for mankind 1:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Issaquah Library, and again 2 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Bellevue Library. He agreed to sit down with the Reporter with a few of his thoughts on his stories and ideas about the future. The following interview has been edited for space, but not content; the full interview is available at bellevuere-
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