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Highway 522 crash victims identified By Eric Stevick Herald Writer
MALTBY — The two people killed in Monday’s head-on crash on Highway 522 have been identified as a Redmond couple in their 70s. Joan S. Kinger, 76, died at the scene. She was a passenger in a 2007 Ford Fusion. The driver, Stanley Kinger, 79, was transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle where he also died. The other driver, 24, was listed in serious condition
in intensive care at Harborview on Tuesday. His passenger, a 1-year-old girl, was listed in critical condition in intensive care. Both were listed as living in Monroe, according to a Washington State Patrol accident memo. The two-car collision occurred around 3:20 p.m. Monday east of Fales Road. A stretch of the highway was closed for about three hours while officers investigated. The crash involved the Ford Fusion and a Mitsubishi Eclipse.
Troopers believe that the driver of the Mitsubishi was heading east and crossed over onto the westbound shoulder. The Mitsubishi hit a traffic barrel that was in some grass beyond the shoulder. The driver overcorrected before crashing head-on into the other car. Drugs and alcohol are not believed to be factors in the crash, the State Patrol memo said. They also have ruled out the driver being distracted by texting or cellphone use. It is too early to know
what caused the car to cross over. “We still need to talk to him,” trooper Keith Leary said. “It’s still an unknown. It’s still under investigation.” Traffic barrels are used to shut down lanes. No construction was going on in the immediate area. The only construction happening was at the Snohomish River Bridge project well east of where the crash happened, Leary said. Eric Stevick: 425-3393446; stevick@heraldnet. com
Man shot by troopers on I-5 dies at hospital Associated Press SEATTLE — A man shot by Washington State Patrol troopers on I-5 in Seattle has died at a hospital. A nursing supervisor at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle
said the man died Monday night shortly after his arrival. He has not been identified. The southbound lanes of the freeway reopened about midnight after a five-hour closure at the Ship Canal Bridge
where the man stopped his truck, set it on fire and spray-painted a large green circle on the freeway. Seattle police said when troopers arrived the man displayed a knife. A trooper used a Taser, but
the man still advanced with his knife so two troopers shot him. The incident backed up traffic for miles. Troopers turned some cars around and diverted others. Some bus passengers got out and walked.
Revenue: Possible cuts to prisons From Page A1
percent from their budgets. Some of those ideas might find their way into the 201517 budget proposal Inslee is to deliver to lawmakers in December. “This is not a drill to impose across-the-board cuts,” Schumacher said. “This is a drill to give the governor options. We’re not expecting to do 15 percent in each and every agency.” Washington is midway through the 2013-15 budget cycle, and in January the governor and lawmakers will focus on approving a 2015-17 budget. State economist Steve Lerch said Tuesday that the state expects to take in $33.8 billion in this budget, up $157 million from his last report in February. And he said the state will collect $36.6 billion during the 2015-17 biennium. Those figures represent what the state collects and spends through a general fund and associated accounts, not federal dollars that pass through. If September and November forecasts for
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You have to shut down probably an entire facility, a large facility, to save that kind of money. — Rep. Ross Hunter, D- Medina chief House budget writer
revenue continue to rise, cuts might not be needed in the governor’s proposal. But that’s a tall order given that the state needs to spend $1 billion to $2 billion to make a dent in education funding obligations per the so-called McCleary decision by the Supreme Court, Schumacher said. And, he said, there are obligations for such things as employee pensions and health care for low-income residents, as well as pressure to provide teachers and state workers with a cost-of-living increase. The June 13 directive stirred concern in some quarters of state government. Corrections Secretary Bernie Warner shared the news with employees that it amounts to shaving $250 million in agency spending. It drew a sharp response from the largest union representing correctional employees.
“Cuts of this magnitude would likely mean more prison closures and the early release of prisoners into our community,” Tracey A. Thompson, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 117, said in a statement “Public safety and the safety of correctional staff would be put at risk. We ought to allocate more resources to protect and retain prison staff, not make their jobs more difficult.” Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina, the chief House budget writer and chairman of the Revenue Forecast Council, said that where prisons are concerned, such a deep cut can’t be done without shuttering facilities and releasing inmates. “You can’t cut 15 percent out of (the) corrections budget and maintain anything close to a safe workplace, either safe for the inmates or safe for the staff,” he said. “To achieve that level of
savings in corrections, you have to let a lot of people out. You have to shut down probably an entire facility, a large facility, to save that kind of money.” Stephen Gehrke, a spokesman for the agency, said options will be prepared, though it’s too soon to know exactly what they might look like. “Any cuts are inherently difficult, particularly given that the agency just went through a difficult round,” he wrote in an email. “Right now it’s important to keep in mind this is a contingency exercise and is just getting under way.” Marty Brown, executive director of the state Board of Community and Technical Colleges, said it would be “catastrophic” to the system of twoyear higher education institutions. A 15 percent reduction is about $92 million and would require a 24 percent tuition increase as an offset, he said. But Brown, a former state budget director, said Schumacher is taking the right approach given the pressure to come up with money for the McCleary decision. “I thought it was a prudent thing for them to do,” he said. “It’s a planning tool. It’s not a budget.” Jerry Cornfield: 360352-8623; jcornfield@ heraldnet.com.
State residents rail against oil shipments By Nicholas K. Geranios Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. — Numerous speakers told a state Senate committee Tuesday that they oppose the rapid increase in railcars carrying crude oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota and Montana through the state. The Senate Energy, Environment and Telecommunications Committee met in Spokane, a major railroad hub for the northern United States, to take testimony on a bill that seeks to improve the safety of those oil shipments. But nearly all the members of the public who spoke attacked the measure as too friendly to the oil and railroad industries. Numerous people referred to last year’s explosion of a rail car in Quebec, Canada, that killed 47 people, and worried that could happen in Washington. “I personally don’t believe we should send these ‘bomb cars’ through our community of almost half a million people,” said Mike Petersen of The Lands Council, a Spokane environmental group. An explosion like the Quebec blast would be catastrophic in downtown Spokane, where elevated railroad tracks run near or adjacent to office towers, hotels and hospitals, speakers said. But officials of the BNSF Railway noted there hasn’t been a rail accident involving hazardous materials in the Spokane region in decades, and said rail traffic is getting safer. Patrick Brady of BNSF said the railroad has had one flammable release this year in 900,000 shipments of hazardous material. “It’s pretty rare for them to occur,” he said. The oil boom in North Dakota and Montana has created a sharp increase in rail shipments to West Coast refineries and ports. There were no crude oil shipments by rail through the state in 2011, but that increased to 17 million barrels in 2013 and is projected to reach 55 million barrels this year. That has raised concerns in communities across the state about a derailment and explosion in a populated area. A bill to regulate crude oil shipments failed in the
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Legislature last year, but Senate Bill 6582 will be introduced in the next session. The measure calls for the state Department of Ecology to study the safety of the shipments. It also seeks to train emergency responders, and create caches of emergency gear in rail communities. It would be funded by an extension to rail of a 5-cents-per-barrel tax that currently applies only to oil shipments by sea. “We want to prevent something catastrophic, and to be prepared if something happens,” said state Sen. Mike Baumgartner, R-Spokane, a sponsor of the bill. Baumgartner noted the state’s ability to regulate the shipments is limited because interstate commerce is a federal issue. Critics of the bill included Katie Evans, of the local chapter of the Sierra Club, who said it spends too much money on accident response and not enough on accident prevention. “We want a moratorium on any increase in crude oil shipments,” she said. Bonnie Mager of Cheney worried that if an oil tanker exploded near her home, “we’d be incinerated.” Other speakers complained that BNSF should be forced to use only the most up-to-date rail cars for the shipments, and should be required to alert local leaders when shipments are coming through their towns. Kari Cutting of the North Dakota Petroleum Council told lawmakers that rail tankers are safe to contain the Bakken crude, which is not more volatile than other crude oil. But she acknowledged there was no way to ensure that an accident did not punch a hole in a tanker car. “You can’t reach zero percent probability,” she said. She said about 40 percent of the oil shipped by rail is transported in older cars that are not as safe as newer models. Johan Hellman of BNSF said about 5 percent of the railroad’s cargo was crude oil.
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