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Industrial hub gets a boost
NRA exits suit on gun storage
Puget Sound Regional Council’s designation means more funding for transportation, and likely major growth in the Marysville-Arlington area
Though withdrawing as plaintiffs, it and a Bellevue gun-rights group will still fund the legal challenge of new rule in Edmonds. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
EDMONDS — The National Rifle Association and Second Amendment Foundation are no longer plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the city of Edmonds’ new rules governing firearm storage. The two gun rights groups pulled out earlier this month, leaving residents Brett Bass, Curtis McCullough and Swan Seaberg as the remaining plaintiffs. But the organizations will continue to conduct and fund the legal fight on behalf of the trio. “We’re definitely not giving up and we plan to win it,” said Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Bellevuebased Second Amendment Foundation. Gottlieb and attorneys representing the individual plaintiffs characterized their withdrawal as a strategic decision aimed at speeding up the case. They said lawyers for the city sought a slew of their records related to responsible firearms storage and they didn’t want to spend the time and money gathering them. “Once it became clear that the City’s attorneys would use the participation of the organizations to slow down and delay the case, the NRA and SAF elected to withdraw and allow the three individual plaintiffs to press their claims,” attorneys said in a statement. “With the organizations out of the case, the individual plaintiffs plan to move for summary judgment to invalidate the ordinance as soon as possible.” Eric Tirschwell, managing director of Everytown Law, said the move wasn’t surprising. The firm
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Vector Development Co. has begun construction of MI-5 Business Park in Marysville — a $32 million, a 247,000-square-foot facility for distribution and manufacturing tenants.
By Stephanie Davey Herald Writer
ARLINGTON — A new designation for a rural industrial center could help triple the number of jobs on the sprawling campus over the next two decades. The Puget Sound Regional Council has classified the hub in Arlington and Marysville as a Manufacturing Industrial Center. It means more federal money for transportation projects, which could hasten job growth. The decision was announced Thursday. This area initially was called the Arlington-Marysville Industrial Manufacturing Center. It was renamed the Cascade Industrial Center last week. Work has been planned on a couple of the main roads leading to the center, Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring said. “The state has funded a new Interstate 5 exit at 156th Street, that will literally deliver you to the Cascade Industrial Center,” he said. “Work is estimated to start on this in 2025.” Traffic on 156th Street NE moves from east to west. It’s connected to Twin Lakes Avenue and Smokey Point Boulevard. Another proposed project would widen Highway 531, also
called 172nd Street NE. One lane would be added in each direction. That money was secured in 2015 and work is expected to begin in 2021. The road runs east to west through the Arlington side of the Cascade Industrial Center. About 8,000 people work in the industrial center, one employer being the Arlington Municipal Airport. By 2040, the number of workers is projected to grow to 25,000. The center offers incentives, including a 10-year city and county property tax exemption, no city business and occupation tax and reduced state business and occupation tax for aerospace and some other industries. Some businesses expected to move in are aerospace, advanced manufacturing, food processing, maritime and mass timber. Arlington and Marysville also have refined the system to apply for permits, Arlington Mayor Barb Tolbert said. “We’ve been working on a predictable and streamlined permitting process to make doing business with us very easy,” she said. The Cascade Industrial Center is about 4,000 acres, split between Marysville and Arlington and east of I-5. It joins nine other zones in the
region that have been designated as a Manufacturing Industrial Center. The only other in Snohomish County is near Paine
Field and Boeing. Stephanie Davey: 425-3393192; sdavey@heraldnet.com; Twitter: @stephrdavey.
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Fiery debate centers on race, age, health care, Trump Associated Press
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MIAMI — Democratic divisions over race, age and ideology surged into public view Thursday night as the party’s leading presidential contenders faced off in a fiery debate over who is best positioned to take on President Donald Trump. The Democratic Party’s early front-runner, 76-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden, was forced to defend his record on race in the face of tough questions from California Sen. Kamala Harris, the only African American on stage. That was only after he defended his age after jabs from one of two millennial candidates in the prime-time clash. “I do not believe you are a racist,” Harris said, though she described Biden’s record of working with Republican segregationist senators
on non-race issues as “hurtful.” Clearly on defense, Biden called the Harris attack “a complete mischaracterization of my record.” He declared, “I ran because of civil rights.” The debate marked an abrupt turning point in a Democratic primary in which candidates have largely tiptoed around each other, focusing instead on their shared desire to beat Trump. But the debate revealed just how deep the fissures are within the Democratic Party eight months before primary voting begins. Thursday’s debate, like the one a night earlier, gave millions of Americans their first peek inside the Democrats’ unruly 2020 season. The showdown featured four of the five strongest candidates — according to early polls, at least. Those are Biden, Sanders, Pete Buttigieg of Indiana and Harris.
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INSIDE ■ Among 9 other candidates, Gov. Inslee got his 6 minutes of fame Wednesday night. Read what the governor, a longshot presidential candidate, said in Miami. Page A3
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (left) and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speak at the same time during Thursday’s Democratic primary debate that was hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who debated Wednesday night, is the fifth.
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stage — or even two. Twenty Democrats debated on national television this week in two waves of 10, while a handful more were left out altogether. The level of diversity on display was unprecedented for a major political party in the United States. The field features six women, two African Americans, one Asian American and two men under 40, one of them openly gay. Yet in the early days of the campaign, two white septuagenarians are leading the polls: Biden and Vermont Sen. Sanders. See DEBATE, Page A2
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