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Michael Chadd Boysen found dead in jail BY DEAN A. RADFORD
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Michael Chadd Boysen, center, during his sentencing hearing in 2013. FILE PHOTO BY DEAN A. RADFORD, Renton Reporter
Michael Chadd Boysen, the Renton man convicted in the 2013 killing of his grandparents, died on March 18 of natural causes at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, according to the Walla Walla County coroner. Boysen died of a pulmonary emboli, a blood clot to the lungs, according to coroner Richard Greenwood. Final toxicology and autopsy reports will take approximately 8 to 10 weeks to complete. Boysen, 28, returned to his cell at approximately 7:40 a.m. after taking a shower and lost consciousness, according to a press release from the Washington state Department of Corrections.
ACA tax penalties pile up fast for city
Fish off: Students release salmon into creek BY TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com
‘Cadillac Tax’ on highend plans could cost city $484,000 in 2018 BY BRIAN BECKLEY bbeckley@rentonreporter.com
Apollo Elementary student Kendall Leavitt (above) releases one of 230 coho salmon into Issaquah Creek. TRACEY COMPTON, Renton Reporter “It’s a great culminating project to integrate all the domains of science, physical science and earth science for our thirdgrade curriculum and it’s really a great opportunity for the community,” said Lauren Screibers, third-grade teacher at Apollo. In January the salmon arrived at the school as eggs and the students have been watching them grow ever since. There are 155 schools that participate in the “Salmon in the Schools” program. Each school gets 250 salmon eggs to raise.
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The City of Renton will face a huge tax penalty under the Affordable Care Act beginning in 2018 if changes are not made to the city’s health-care plans, according to a report given to the city council earlier this month. Under current ACA rules and if no changes are made, a 40 percent excise tax on premium health-care plans – known colloquially as the “Cadillac Tax” – will cost the city an estimated $484,914 in 2018, $802,758 in 2019 and will reach as high as $41 million in 2024. “We have to do something,” said Senior Benefits Analyst Maria Boggs. Boggs said the estimates are based [ more PENALTY page 11 ]
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Third-grade students at Apollo Elementary School said goodbye to about 230 coho salmon that they released into the Issaquah Creek March 18 as part of a “Salmon in the Schools” project. The event was also a fundraiser for the ailing program, which is in need of funds and volunteers. About 150 kids ran squealing around the property of Pickering Barn in Issaquah, eager to get Salmon Release Day underway. When it was time, they pushed and squeezed into four lines in front of their teachers, who manned painter-sized buckets full of tiny fish. “Well, today’s an amazing day because we’re having the chance to release salmon into the creek and I think that’s a rare time,” said third-grader Max Novak. He and other students were given cups containing fish to walk down to the creek and release into the wild waters below. It was an activity that took about 10 minutes for the students to complete, but they’ve spent months prior to the exercise learning about the lifecycle of coho salmon.
Staff attempted life–saving measures, but Boysen was pronounced dead at approximately 8:10 a.m. Boysen had served 16 months of a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the March 2013 murders of Robert and Norma Taylor, just hours after they picked him up from a state prison in Monroe. Following the murders, Boysen fled to Lincoln City, Ore., where he was arrested after an hours-long standoff with police. After his arrest, Boysen railed against the poor treatment he received by the legal system and in the King County Jail, where he was held for about seven months. He also attempted suicide in jail and was treated at Harborview Medical Center 16 times.