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Inslee wants taxes for schools, roads Governor meets with Sound Publishing staff to discuss budget details BY BRANDON MACZ REPORTER NEWSPAPERS
With opposition to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's proposed 2015-17 biennial budget coming from both sides of the aisle, the state's top executive says it's up to the Legislature to provide a better alternative. Inslee revealed his budget last week in separate portions, ending with his revenue strategy on Dec. 18. Staff members from Reporter newspapers met later that day in Bellevue to discuss the budget with the governor. Inslee’s budget would fund a number of major state transportation projects over the next 12 years, including completing the State Route 520 floating bridge and Interstate 405 projects between Renton and Bellevue. About $4.8 billion of that money would come from a cap-and-trade plan on carbon emissions that affects 130 of the state's biggest
"This is not a rocket ship to the moon where we have to invent a new science," the governor said. "This is a well-known, wellaccepted, successful policy, so I don't think there's any reason we shouldn't be able to learn from the experience of other states." The governor said he's open to other ideas, adding his budget has encouraged Republican lawmakers to reconsider raising the gas tax for the 2015-17 biennium. "It's interesting; I've heard some critiques of this (emissions plan) where, all of a sudden, some of my Republican colleagues are falling in love with the gas tax," Inslee said, "and I'm wondering where they've been the past two years." Inslee said his budget also includes a "mark of good faith" to Republican lawmakers by diverting Craig Groshart, Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter up to $650 million in sales tax on Staff members from Sound Publishing newspapers question Gov. Jay Inslee on transportation projects from the Dec. 18 about the revenue portion of his budget. From left are: Joe Livarchik, general fund into more transportaMercer Island Reporter; Daniel Nash, Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter; tion projects. Neither he nor his felBrandon Macz, Bellevue Reporter; Gov. Jay Inslee; and Jon Bauer, the Herald low Democrats think it is responsible, given the state's education in Everett. funding obligations, Inslee said. gas tax. He added this has been a polluters. That, the governor said, About 40 percent of the projectproven method in the United States would advance the state’s clean and other parts of the world. air obligations without raising the SEE INSLEE, 7
Teens surrender after 7-hour standoff with police, SWAT teams BY DANIEL NASH ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
Two teenagers surrendered to police Dec. 18 after a seven-hour standoff with police on Third Place Northwest. Police and SWAT teams had been called to the address at about 5 a.m. in response to a domestic violence incident. The teens had barricaded themselves inside the home and threatened officers. Newport Way Northwest and First Avenue Northwest were closed for police activity. The response was not related to the recent threats
at Pacific Cascade Middle School from an unknown person, city spokespeople said via Twitter. The suspects surrendered peacefully at about noon. Both boys were arrested for felony harassment and one boy was arrested for domestic violence. Daniel Nash: 425-391-0363 ext. 5052; dnash@issaquahreporter.com
Not guilty plea entered in crash that left 2 dead, 1 injured at lake house BY DANIEL NASH ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
A 68-year-old Sammamish woman accused of killing her husband and sonin-law and severely injuring her daughter after driving her Jeep through her home — with her grandson in her lap — pleaded not guilty Dec. 18 to charges filed by the King County prosecutor. Carol Sue Fedigan faces two charges of vehicular homicide, one charge of vehicular assault and one charge of reckless endangerment from the May incident. If convicted on all counts, she faces up to 13
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years in prison. According to charging documents, Fedigan had been eating dinner with her family at the lakeside home she shared with her husband when she left to move her new Jeep into the driveway. She took along her infant grandson. Minutes later, the Jeep plowed through the front of the home, through the dining room and seated family members, out the back and onto the home's boat deck. The car narrowly avoided falling into the water by becoming stuck on a protective SEE CRASH, 7
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