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Honoring our veterans
A message from King County Executive Dow Constantine: Ever since the first “Armistice Day” was declared 92 years ago, we as a nation have set aside a special day to honor those who have answered the call to duty and preserved our freedoms. That number includes 20 King County employees who were called to active […]
Happy retirement, J.P.!
September 17, 2011
Message from King County Executive Dow Constantine: Chris Wedes, as J.P. Patches, and the wonderful Bob Newman, as his sidekick Gertrude and many other regular characters, entertained several generations of from 1958-1981, playing cartoons and playing around. Their slapstick-and-wordplay routines, largely ad-libbed, occasionally left a few kids bewildered and the players themselves in stitches. My […]
Setting the record straight on Metro’s efficiency, ridership and Transit Now
July 22, 2011
A note from Kevin Desmond, the General Manager of Metro Transit: Last night the King County Council’s Transportation, Economy and Environment Committee concluded its third public hearing on the Executive’s proposed congestion reduction charge and potential cuts to the Metro Transit system. I had the privilege of attending all three hearings and was quite taken […]
Why public education is not enough to save lives on our rivers this summer
June 15, 2011
Any first responder on the scene of a drowning tragedy can tell you they will never forget the horrifying heartbreak of families and friends standing next to the river while rescuers try to locate their loved ones. In many cases, these incidents are easily preventable. This summer, we expect our local rivers to be running […]
Transit prodigy mentors next generation
May 12, 2011
Thirty years ago, Ted Day was a 10-year-old with a prodigious interest in King County’s transit system. By that young age he had memorized all the bus routes in the Metro system, and was featured as a transit prodigy in an article in the Seattle Times. Fast forward to 2011, and the 39-year-old Day now […]
“AIMs High” public reporting website cited as example by U.S. Government Accountability Office
May 9, 2011
The U.S. Government and Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that profiles King County’s innovative use of community indicators in its AIMs High public performance website. Community indicators, such as average commute lengths and infant mortality rates, describe the state of the environment or community. The GAO conducted a study under the direction of the […]
Testing the (Bright)waters
May 9, 2011
We’re testing the waters at Brightwater! Workers recently finished installing the state-of-the-art treatment filters that will get wastewater so clean it can actually be recycled for irrigation and industrial uses (video here). Operations staff also got a chance earlier this week to try out the new equipment, sending clean water through the process units to make […]
April Fool’s Day joke in UK carries real message for King County residents
April 1, 2011
The people who run King County’s clean-water utility find nothing foolish about a recent British prank to call attention to the “nightmare” scenario created when people flush fats, grease and trash down sinks and toilets. In the spirit of April Fool’s Day, a Merseyside utility played up the sighting of a mysterious monster deemed “Messie” […]
Employee uses head to save shoulders – and money!
March 28, 2011
Mike Lindsay is an artisan and inventor who also works as a Lead Mechanic at King County’s South Treatment Plant in Renton. When his coworkers were getting sidelined by shoulder and back injures brought on by manually lifting heavy metal gates to control the flow of wastewater inside the plant, Mike headed to his workshop […]
Bus driver goes above and beyond
March 23, 2011
This morning, King County Executive Dow Constantine presented the George Turner Award to Metro bus driver Cherise Millhouse. The Turner Award is given by the Northwest Chapter of Paralyzed Veterans of America each quarter to a Metro driver for outstanding service to people with disabilities. Cherise Milhouse certainly delivered excellent customer service. In fact, she went beyond the […]
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November 10, 2011
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