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Snohomish’s cracked war memorial will be replaced, thanks to the lobbying of Snohomish High School students and teachers. By Eric Stevick Herald Writer
SNOHOMISH — Behind every line item within the state’s massive $3.8 billion capital budget, there is a story. In the case of one of the tiniest appropriations, it can be argued there are 81 stories. That is how many names are on a granite memorial beneath the flag pole at Veterans Memorial Stadium on the Snohomish High School campus. The names are etched in black in the shiny gray stone. They belong to the young men from Snohomish who joined the military but never came home. In recent years, two large cracks formed and grew, creeping down either side of the monument and through the names held dear. Experts examined the monolith. The rock cannot be repaired. So students and teachers decided it must be replaced. They received estimates of between $10,000 and $20,000 and looked for help. Capt. Will Lennon, senior Marine instructor for the school’s JROTC program, remembers the conversations he had with his students and with Tuck Gionet, a civics teacher, and Mark Perry, the school’s athletic director. Gionet and Perry each have been at the school for more than a quarter century. “I have had friends that were killed in combat,” Lennon said. “The fact that it’s called Veterans Memorial Stadium, we should show that we recognize that and this is important to us.”
A planned new courthouse in downtown Everett may be scrapped amid conflict with city leaders and concerns over county government’s shaky finances. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
Cars, for example, are the single largest source of pollution-causing emissions but aren’t likely to be placed under any cap, he said. Procedurally, once all that work is done and a draft rule is completed, it would be formally released. The state would then have 180 days to gather public comments at the end of which Inslee would have to decide whether to make it final. A spokeswoman for the governor didn’t dispute Clark’s assessment of the challenge ahead though she emphasized the governor is resolved for the process to be
EVERETT — Frustration boiled Monday as Snohomish County leaders all but scrapped plans to build a new eight-story courthouse downtown. The $162 million project had been on track to break ground this month. The Everett City Council threw that into doubt last week when it postponed voting on a parking agreement that’s necessary for construction to begin. On top of that, some county officials have started sounding the alarm about the shaky state of the county’s finances. County council members now are contemplating cheaper options. They could return to a earlier plan of tacking a new wing onto the existing courthouse — or even look at building sites outside of Everett. “At this point, we don’t know quite where to go with the project,” county facilities director Mark Thunberg said. During a discussion Monday, Councilman Brian Sullivan showed just how much has changed. Only two weeks earlier, Sullivan had called it “insane” to go back on the courthouse project that’s “absolutely necessary.” On Monday, he conceded, “I just don’t see how we move forward at this point.” The turnaround drew strong words from Michael Downes, the presiding judge in Snohomish County Superior Court. Downes said his impatience has been growing for the 11 years he and other county leaders have discussed a new courthouse. All along, they’ve agreed that the new building is imperative — a conclusion supported by independent studies and first-hand experience. “There are significant, real, honest-toGod safety issues in that building that we deal with every day,” Downes said. County Council Chairman Dave Somers said he would be open to an alternative that would cost $90 million to $100 million. That’s less than any of the new courthouse options the county considered earlier in the process. That might leave remodeling the existing 1967 courthouse and adding a new wing as the only affordable option. Somers voted to oppose a remodeling plan in 2012, but on Monday said financial concerns have caused him to rethink his position. Downes said he doesn’t care where a new building goes, or exactly how big it is, as long as it addresses the courts’ needs. Sprucing up the old building won’t cut it,
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Inslee’s carbon cap won’t happen soon Herald Writer
OLYMPIA — It may take Gov. Jay Inslee longer to circumvent lawmakers and impose a cap on carbon emissions than he’s expecting. The governor directed the Department of Ecology last week to begin developing a hard limit on emissions using his rule-making power under existing state laws. He pledged the process
President Barack Obama unveils a plan to curb emissions from coal-fired power plants, A4 would be open with plenty of opportunity for interested parties to weigh in — and he expected to be finished in about a year. But the man leading the effort says it could take twice as long because of the complexity and controversy enveloping the issue. Stu Clark, the air quality program manager for the Department of Ecology, said his team must craft the rule essentially from scratch as there’s no template for such a
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regulatory feat. “A complex rule like this can typically take us 18 months to 24 months to do,” he said. “It must be built from the bottom up. Everybody will get their say.” While air emissions are regulated for a handful of industries, such as pulp and paper mills, for the most part the state must figure out who will be covered by the new regulations and then what is practical and possible for them to achieve in terms of reductions, Clark said. It is likely the eventual rule will not apply to all emitters which will add a degree of complication to the regulatory calibrations, he said.
Electric thumb Momma told you not to hitchhike: The creators of a hitchhiking robot say they may rebuild the peripatetic android after it made the mistake of accepting a ride from someone in Philadelphia over the weekend (Across the U.S., Page A4). Dear Abby. . . . B3 Good Life . . . . B1
They want the robot to resume its journey across the nation, but may just buy it a Rick Steves guidebook and send it to Europe. Get stuffed: In the wake of the Cecil the Lion controversy, Delta Air Lines says it has banned shipment of lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo
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trophies as freight (Page A5). Left unsaid is whether airlines will also ban biggame hunters, although it seems there will be room for them in the cargo hold. Spread the payments over 10 years: Car sales rose by 5 percent in July, thanks to intense demand for luxury Short Takes . . . B4 Sports . . . . . . . C1
cars, defying predictions that the Great Recession would motivate America to downsize and economize (Page A5). But that was before America took a test drive in a base-trim Nissan Versa, then said, “Hey, let’s go check out those new Audis.” — Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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The state is providing $10,000 to help replace a cracked war memorial to former Snohomish County high school students who died in wars. Students in Tuck Gionet’s government classes and the JROTC program lobbied lawmakers for the money.
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Up to two years will be needed to write the complex rule, an Ecology Department official says.
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