This week’s watchwords Kenya
State budget
Batter up
As stunned families of the victims of the terrorist massacre gather to mourn, al-Shabab warns that the militant group is planning more attacks in Kenya.
A capital budget from Senate Republicans is expected this week and then the House and Senate will get busy reconciling — their budget differences, at least.
It’s opening week and Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano, for one, is optimistic: “On paper we look like world champions.” Indeed, the Mariners are considered favorites in the AL West, an unusual position for Seattle, in recent years.
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Courthouse plan reached The compromise between Everett and the county adds more than 300 parking spaces that weren’t there before. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
EVERETT — A tentative compromise on parking spots emerged Friday for building a
new Snohomish County courthouse in downtown Everett, after time-consuming and expensive delays. Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson and County Executive John
Lovick said they had reached an agreement to supply more than 300 parking spaces not included in the county’s original building plans. The resolution should keep the courthouse within budget and satisfy the city’s needs, they said. “We have to keep this building at $162 million and we believe
this will do that,” Lovick said Friday. Lovick was optimistic the agreement would succeed and credited staff members for working hard to make it happen. It’s up to the County Council to approve any deal. See PLAN, back page, this section
Time’s near for Boeing tax bill
Now open for business
It has been sitting in committee almost a month without a vote and “the only chance it has is if there is a bipartisan consensus.”
Full-service sit-down restaurant back in Darrington after 3 years
By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
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Server Pam Acosta refills coffee cups for Randy Ashe (in green), his brother, Kevin Ashe (right), and Kevin’s wife, Sheila, during breakfast Friday at Bradley’s Diner in Darrington. Friday was the first full day of business for the restaurant. Darrington has not had a full-service sit-down restaurant since the Glacier Peak Cafe closed at the same location three years ago.
Herald Writer
the buzz
DARRINGTON — The walls are painted, the menus are printed and the cooking has commenced. Bradley’s Diner opened Friday morning in the former Glacier Peak Cafe, 1215 Highway 530. It’s been about three years since there’s been a full-service restaurant in town. There are
several other places to eat, but none with a sit-down breakfast, lunch and dinner menu. Owners Michelle and Doug Bradley plan to have the diner open seven days a week. Current hours are 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. It likely will be open later in the summer. The Bradleys spent about two and a half months fixing
Start it up But don’t flood it: The biggest machine ever built, the Large Hadron Collider, was restarted Sunday by scientists who boosted the device’s speed in hopes of unlocking the secrets of the creation of the universe (Page A7). Since the Collider had been sitting idle for two
years, technicians were forced to create the biggest Diehard battery and jumper cables ever built to get it going again. Shut up and read Dr. Spock: In today’s column, family psychologist John Rosemond says he thinks today’s moms stress out too much over their kids, a condition he traces to a
the diner before opening day. They remodeled the storeroom, installed new appliances, painted, cleaned and decorated. It was at times a trying project, Michelle Bradley said. They had to save up for repairs and equipment, and the place was a mess during the heaviest work. Family and friends kept her motivated when the end seemed out of reach. “I’m a person who wants it
1965 parenting book that encouraged moms and dads to worry about abstract and speculative issues (Living With Children, Page B2). Rosemond’s right: In the good old days, parents only stressed about verifiable stuff like polio, rickets, lockjaw and measles (umm, about that last thing...). Don’t know much about
done yesterday,” she said. “This has been a project, and we’re seeing it through to the end.” People have been buzzing about the restaurant for weeks, Darrington city clerk Sonya Blacker said. “Everybody’s excited, from what I’ve heard,” she said. “I think a lot of it is when you have family or friends in town, you See DINER, Page A2
history: On this day in 1896, the first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece (Today in History, Page B4). Also on this day in 1896, the Olympics saw their first doping scandal when an athlete tested positive for a banned substance: Doctor Coleman’s Restorative Tincture of Laudanum.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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By Kari Bray
OLYMPIA — Time is running out for backers of a bill tying Boeing Co. tax breaks to the number of people the company employs in Washington. Sponsored by an Everett lawmaker, the bill has been in the House Finance Committee for nearly a month with no sign that the chairman is going to bring it up for a vote. But Rep. June Robinson, D-Everett, brushed aside insinuations that it is dead, saying Friday that it is still in play as the Legislature enters the last three weeks of a 105-day session. “We’re still working on getting to a ‘yes,’” Robinson said. “There’s interest in moving it. I’m definitely not done working it.” House Bill 2147 would amend a law passed in a November 2013 special session to help land Boeing’s 777X program in Everett. That law extended a suite of tax incentives to 2040 in exchange for the aerospace giant agreeing to assemble its newest jetliner in the state. The extension will save Boeing an estimated $8.7 billion in tax payments to the state through 2040. Robinson’s bill would alter the 2013 law by linking those incentives with the size of Boeing’s workforce. Should the workforce shrink — and it has since the extension was enacted — the tax break would shrink, too. “If the jobs stay, the tax breaks stay, and if the jobs leave, the tax break incrementally goes away. I think that is fair,” Robinson said at a March 13 public hearing in the Finance Committee. Rep. Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, the committee chairman, said in a recent interview that he won’t bring the bill up for a vote without Republican support. “The only chance it has is if there is a bipartisan consensus,” Carlyle said. “There are some Republicans interested in this, and we are trying to figure out
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