Blaine High School student Emily Ramey received an honorable mention for her work titled “Yum Yom, BLEH, Sniff Snerf” at the 2017 Congressional Art Competition for Washington’s First District. Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) made the announcement during a reception honoring those who participated in the annual competition, which started in 1982. This year, three local artists judged submissions from students in grades 9 through 12. “I was incredibly impressed with the creativity and outstand...
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Historically, comprehensive tax reform has only worked when it has been a bipartisan effort. Now is not the time to break that tradition. The last time a major overhaul of our tax code was successful, a Republican president and a bipartisan group in Congress came together to help the American people by reforming parts of the tax code that weren’t working. That process was the product of years of sustained effort and extensive debate. The end product was not perfect — no piece of legislation is —...
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Science itself may be nonpartisan, but the March for Science this weekend simply couldn’t be. Demonstrators, many tech workers among them, turned out in an estimated 600 cities around the world to rally for science and its role in policy-making. The march was organized after the Trump administration proposed and began to implement steep budget cuts to federal science agencies in the U.S., notably the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health. A mix of politicians, sci...
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MOUNT VERNON — In her first town hall meeting in Skagit County this year, U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene was asked repeatedly to demonstrate her opposition to President Donald Trump and his administration. The fifth-year Democratic congresswoman was asked to reject the administration’s stated positions on immigration, climate change, health care, social services and education policy. Between 150 and 175 people were in attendance at Friday night’s meeting at Mount Vernon High School, and about 20 were ...
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Like nearly everything else related to politics these days, the Town Hall meeting hosted by 1st District Congresswoman Susan DelBene at Glacier Peak High School earlier this month turned into a referendum on the policies and agenda of President Donald Trump. The Democratic lawmaker did her best to sidestep controversial issues when she answered questions from more than 650 of her constituents who gathered in the high school gymnasium. But many of the issues were too difficult for DelBene to igno...
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John Macklin was never the marching sort. Throughout his long career as a chemist at the University of Washington, Macklin admits he lived up to some of the stereotypes of an academic. “The idea is that you’re in your ivory tower,” he said. “Aloof. Uninvolved.” Seattle’s March for Science will begin with a rally and speeches at 10 a.m. Saturday at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill. The march will start moving around noon and end about an hour later at the International Fountain at Seattle Center...
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Congresswoman Suzan DelBene’s return to Washington State’s 1st District from Washington, D.C. this spring has been filled with opportunities to engage with her constituents. Last week, she held a town hall event at Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, where those in attendance could ask her questions and share their thoughts about the issues that matter to them. Constituents from cities including Kirkland, Bothell, Redmond, Woodinville and Duvall filled the stands in the school’s gymnasium t...
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MOUNT VERNON — Even after school, the hallways and classrooms at LaVenture Middle School are bustling with activity. Some kids are catching up on homework in a computer lab, others are working on their math skills, and some are experimenting with Mentos candies and soda bottles. The students, as well as their counterparts at Mount Baker Middle School, aren’t there because they have to be — they’re there because they want to be. Click here to read the whole story.
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Hundreds of residents in Washington’s 1st Congressional District came to ask and listen to U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene’s answer questions during a town hall meeting at Glacier Peak High School last Tuesday. Topics ranged from President Donald Trump’s political strategies to health care reform, and a last-minute discussion on climate change. Many wanted to know how they could make a dent in policy decisions at the federal level. The 1st Congressional District consists of most of Snohomish, Skagit and...
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SNOHOMISH — U.S. Rep Suzan DelBene fielded questions about health care, investigations of President Donald Trump’s ties to the Russian government and the prospect of nuclear war during a town hall meeting Tuesday. A couple of hundred people packed the bleachers at the Glacier Peak High School gym to ask questions of DelBene, a Democrat who represents Washington’s 1st Congressional District. The tone was mostly cordial and the questions often fell in line with DelBene’s politics, though the crowd...
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