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November 2007Every time I read Seattle police incident reports, I'm surprised as a reporter and amazed as a resident. There's one more reason the families we profiled in our story can't access group home treatment for the mentally ill children they adopted out of foster care. There isn't enough space, or as they say in the industry, "not enough beds." 14-year-old Dennis Lindberg wants to live. Diagnosed with a treatable form of leukemia, the survival rate is 70-percent over 5 years for patients who are treated. But the treatment takes its toll on the body, requiring blood transfusions. But as much as Dennis wants to live, he has refused the transfusions because of his belief in the Jehovah's Witness faith. 14-year-olds cannot drive a car, they cannot vote, they cannot enlist... I knew it would happen. I’m just too weak to hold my tongue. During a perfectly fine dinner with friends over the Thanksgiving holiday I got sucked into the pointless debate over wishing someone “Merry Christmas” versus “Happy Holidays.” ...When speaking with both sides of this issue, one thing rang true: Everyone at the state patrol wants safer roads. When my producer suggested we do our own Katrina-type follow-up to last December's windstorm, I didn't think we would find many problems. While waiting in line at the Issaquah Post Office Monday (11/19), I overheard a woman telling her friend she was spending Thanksgiving .. in fact, almost a month .. on a cruise to Antarctica. Now comes word that a ship called the MS Explorer is stricken and all its passengers evacuated. Could this woman be one of the 13 Americans onboard? How is she? WHO is she? Contact us if you know! (newstips@king5.com or 206-448-3850) Mission Ridge Ski Area wins the plum this year for being the first ski area open in the state. Where mother nature hasn't quite cooperated for westside ski areas, (Mt. Baker usually winning that title for first open.) A little, no make that a lot, of man made equipment has won the day for Mission Ridge. They can make their own snow, with frigid temperatures, water and electrical power. They can cover all their runs. Full Disclosure - I remember Tony Harris, and his days on the WSU Basketball Team. Political campaigns tend to focus on the reasons political opponents disagree with one another. Why do we do it? In Ocean Shores today, I saw the piece of what is likely from an old ship's keel. Ocean Shores resident Steve Sauve found it over the weekend while making his usual rounds of the beach.
It was more than four year ago that I first I got a call from an insider at the King County Medical Examiner's Office with a shocking allegation - that a baby's body had vanished from the morgue in the middle of a murder investigation. Here's some insider insight into Friday night's rescue operation in Mason County. Roll your eyes with me, please! They're called extended warranties or service agreements. And chances are, if you buy anything from a television to a stove, the salesperson will try to sell you one. Do you have a mentor? Someone who inspires you to "go for it" and have no fear? Bill Hosokawa, a Seattle native and a longtime editor at the Denver Post was just such a person. The 92 year old Hosokawa died November 9, 2007 after coaching dozens of reporters over the years, even though a University of Washignton professor told him no American newspaper would ever hire him because of his Japanese ancestry. He not only proved him wrong, Hosokaw... I'm sure that many of you who respond to phone calls for a charitable cause do it for two reasons: 1) You want to get off the phone and back to the dinner table. 2) You believe that SOME of the money you give will go to a good cause. "This is not the best way for the world to discover that Seattle has a sister city in Italy," comments Mike James by e-mail. This is the kind of story that can be torture for a news reporter. I spent time Monday with Emanuel Vardi and his wife Lenore, new arrivals in North Bend. He is a classical music superstar, a viola player of the highest rank in his day, somebody who performed with the NBC Symphony Orcherstra and Arturo Toscanini, who played the biggest stages and with the most important conductors in the world, who made landmark recordings and helped t... The Western Air Defense Sector at McChord Air Force Base is a very protected place. It contains lots of classfied information, much of it on computer screens. Needless to say, visits there by the media are not frequent. Our story on the federal government's efforts to round up criminal aliens will fan the hot debate over immigration in this country. Monday another case of MRSA was discovered in Port Townsend. This time it involved an adult staffer at a pre-school --- bringing the total number of cases to two. MRSA is not new. Even for your friendly aerospace reporter, they're pretty rare. I'm talking about watching a Kaman at work. No, this is not a story about a misspelled member of the crocodile family; it's a helicopter that is truly bizarre. The last thing Tonya Mason wanted to do was see any more pain. She had watched two beloved horses suffer with ever worsening medical conditions. She had also seen how the loss of such beloved animals can inflict terrible pain on the human heart. ...Now that the National Mayors' Climate Summit has wrapped up in Seattle, I can take a breath and reflect. What is most striking to me is how these politicians are ignoring some obvious risks. Sure it's easy to be a green mayor in cities like Seattle, Portland, or L.A. But think of what it takes for the mayor of Austin, Texas or Trenton, New Jersey to lead their citizens down Green Street. King County Superior Court Judge Julie Spector minced no words at Roberto Cedeno's sentencing. "It is a miracle that Donn Potteiger survived," she declared from the bench. When I first saw video of the techniques used by "Infant Swimming Resource," it was on the Internet. I must admit, my jaw dropped and I felt a little sick. I have a toddler at home, and my maternal instinct immediately went into Mama Bear mode. No WAY would I do that to my child! |