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Reardon: Activity was just routine Under oath, the former county executive denied that he was campaigning for re-election while on taxpayer time. By Scott North and Jerry Cornfield Herald Writers
OLYMPIA — To hear former Snohomish County Executive
Aaron Reardon tell it, the hours he spent talking and texting with his most-trusted campaign consultants and political advisers while at work in 2011 had nothing to do with getting
him re-elected. It was just standard operating procedure, Reardon told an investigator for the state Public Disclosure Commission in October. “It’s been well documented, I am a prolific networker,” he said. “I believe in building relationships. I believe in getting input from the
smartest people around and having them help me govern and navigate. And I do that to this day.” The comments came during a half-hour conversation, under oath, as the commission staff explored allegations that Reardon and then-aide Kevin Hulten campaigned on the taxpayer’s dime in 2011.
Reardon’s answers didn’t convince commission staff, who early this month filed civil charges against the pair at the conclusion of a three-year probe. State investigators determined Reardon illegally used public resources to See REARDON, Page A8
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After slow start, ski season at Stevens Pass is in full swing
The Future of Flight Foundation was too close to the aviation center’s moniker, leading some to believe both were the same. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
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STEVENS PASS — Skiers and snowboarders here are leaving last winter’s rocky turns in their tracks. Slopes at the mountain resort got almost 13 feet of snow in December, according
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A snowboarder slides along a rail at Stevens Pass on Tuesday.
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to state data. By Saturday, the ski area had already surpassed last season’s dismal snowfall total of 184 inches, its worst on record. “It’s been a polar opposite of last year,” said Chris Danforth, a Stevens Pass spokesman.
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Riders are relishing turns covered in dry, fluffy powder. That’s unusual for the Pacific Northwest, which usually has a heavy, wet snow known as Cascade concrete. With about 189 inches of snowfall so far this winter, Stevens is on its way to meeting its seasonal average of 460
pampering by his parents. On Tuesday, the kid and his doting mom were on their way to jail after police found them in the Mexico coastal resort town to which they had fled while authorities checked out reports the boy had violated terms of his juvenile probation (Page A10). The question now is what
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inches by the time the resort usually shuts down in late April. The season got off to a slow start earlier this month. There was just enough snow to open the mountain’s beginner terrain Dec. 4.
sort of justice mom and lad will face. Judge Buzz recommends incarceration, during which time they be required to read every single comment about them posted on the Internet. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1940, California’s first freeway, an 8-mile fourShort Takes . . .D6 Sports . . . . . . . C1
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laner between Los Angeles and Pasadena, opened to the motoring public (Today in History, Page B6). It didn’t take long before Clark Gable, impatient with slow traffic, was spotted in the carpool lane with a blow-up doll in the passenger seat of his 1936 Duesenberg SSJ.
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MUKILTEO — The nonprofit organization that runs the Future of Flight Aviation Center has a new name — the Institute of Flight. The change comes 10 years after the group began and as it dives into ambitious plans to turn the center into an attraction to rival the Boeing Tour with which it is paired. The names of the center and tour are not changing. The new name lets people know that the nonprofit group is independent from the Boeing Co., the visitor attraction — the Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour — and Snohomish County, which owns the center. The group’s former name — the Future of Flight Foundation — was too close to the center’s, and led people to believe they were one in the same, Institute of Flight Executive Director Bonnie Hilory said. It also made fundraising difficult and obscured the group’s mission to advance aerospace education. The rename will clarify the group’s mission and “remove obstacles by differentiating between us and the attraction,” she said.
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