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Paine Field Therapy dogs offer comfort to children, crime victims terminal proposed A New York-based firm wants to build a passenger-terminal and parking lot at the airport. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
work day at Dawson Place, the county’s child advocacy center. Dawson Place serves more than 1,000 abused children every year. The center provides medical care and counseling for young crime victims and their families. It also houses detectives and prosecutors who investigate crimes against children. Harper’s handler, Gina Coslett, is a child interview specialist at Dawson Place. She’s tasked with asking children about crimes they’ve witnessed or have had committed against them. Coslett often brings Harper, and now Lucy, to interviews. The highly trained dogs can break the ice when children are
EVERETT — As opponents try to foil Paine Field passenger air service in court, a private investment firm is trying to make it a reality. New York-based Propeller Investments has asked Snohomish County, which owns and operates the airport, to start discussions leading to construction of a terminal and parking facility at Paine Field. The private equity firm doesn’t have a formal proposal, but on Tuesday, its CEO and founder Brett Smith spoke about a possible arrangement in which it would shoulder the risk — leasing land from the airport, financing terminal construction and finding tenant airlines. “We’re very flexible,” though, Smith said. The company is “willing to work within the confines that work for the county.” In a short letter dated Monday, he asked county officials to start talks within 30 days. Passenger air service at Paine Field will encourage economic development and give travelers here a more convenient and cheaper alternative to SeattleTacoma International Airport and Bellingham International Airport, he said. Propeller Investments envisions four or five commercial flights a day to regional destinations, such as Spokane, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles or Long Beach, he said. Paine Field handles about 300 flights a day, ranging from small single-engine airplanes to big Boeing jetliners rolling out of the Everett assembly plant, which abuts the airport. That is about
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Gabrielle Sterbank, 9, plays momentarily with new courthouse therapy dog Lucy, a two-and-a-half-year-old yellow Lab, as handlers Kathy Murray (left) and Gina Coslett watch. Gabrielle, who is not a client, was in the office visiting her mom, a civil deputy prosecutor with Snohomish County.
By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
EVERETT — Lucy was on the job only a few days before she was led into a roomful of grief. Snohomish County deputy prosecutors and victim advocates were meeting with the family of a woman who’d been killed. Lucy, a petite Labrador and Golden Retriever mix, roamed among 20 or so people. Over the next two hours she often returned to the same woman — the victim’s mother. “Instinctively, she knew,” said the dog’s handler, Kathy Murray. Lucy is a compassionate visitor. She will sit next to a scared child for hours, soaking up the tears. She cuddles and presses
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Sterbank hugs Lucy, who is joining the other yellow Lab, Harper.
her nose into shaky hands. She leans into the hurt. Lucy is the county’s
newest courthouse dog. She joins Harper, another dainty Lab, who spends most of her
State revenue increasing, but not enough to cover costs OLYMPIA — Money Washington collects as taxes and fees is increasing, but perhaps not fast enough to stave off spending cuts for state agencies next year.
A new forecast issued Tuesday predicts the state will take in $157 million more in revenue in the next fiscal year than had been assumed three months ago. And it predicts the slowly growing economy will generate $238 million more for the next
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two-year budget than had been previously estimated. But even with those millions of additional dollars, Gov. Jay Inslee’s budget director said it won’t enable the state to cover the cost of existing public services and comply with a state Supreme
Phoning it in Explains why Jeff Bezos is wearing a black turtleneck: Amazon is expected to launch its own smartphone today. The phone will work primarily as a portal for shopping, including a 3-D camera that will allow users to photograph items at other stores, then buy them on Dear Abby. . . .D5 Good Life . . . .D1
Court order to meet the state’s constitutional obligation to fund public schools. “It’s a helpful step but it’s a pretty small step when you are looking at maybe a $2 billion budget problem to solve,” budget director David Schumacher said
Amazon (Page A11). After purchasing an item, the phone will recommend: “Customers who used Sears to try on a swimsuit before buying it from Amazon, also took advantage of Target, Wal-Mart and Nordstrom.” Not what we meant by “intel inside”: A German security firm says it has
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discovered malicious intelligence software preloaded on cheap smartphones made in China that could allow hackers to easily steal data or turn on the phones’ cameras and microphones (Page A11). Amazon immediately filed a lawsuit claiming patent infringement. Don’t know much about Sports . . . . . . . C1 TV . . . . . . . . . .D6
after a meeting of the Revenue and Forecast Council, at which the latest forecast was presented. Last week Schumacher directed leaders of state agencies to identify ways to pare 15 See REVENUE, Page A4
history: On this day in 1964, President Johnson and Japan’s prime minister spoke by phone, the first call over the trans-Pacific cable (Today in History, Page A2). Sadly, without videophone technology, Johnson was unable to show the Japanese official the scar from his gall bladder surgery.
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