The Lind Ave I-405 crossing will have been closed for over a year by the time WSDOT gets the repairs completed late this summer. Bid openings for this project, which will determine the repair construction contractor, will occur on May 24. Design work has been underway for months.
One of the bridge beams was badly damaged when it was hit by a backhoe being towed by a truck on I-405 on June 13, 2022.
After nearly four decades of living in Renton I know a lot about our amazing city and its residents.
One of the things I’ve learned is that every local candidate or official who bases their election campaign on lies will end up answering for it eventually. Most won’t be elected, and if they are, they won’t be successful in office. Serious lies from a candidate or an office holder are a “tell”– an indication that they have nothing meaningful to offer our residents. And more often than not, a completely fabricated lie is a psychological projection of the liar’s own personal problems– they are simply stating their own weaknesses or failures out loud, while pointing to someone else.
Mayor Armondo Pavone is aiming for a May 15 presentation to the full Renton Council of a draft drug ordinance for Renton. The new Renton law will plug the hole left by the legislature when the legislature let the state drug law expire in less than two months from now, on July 1st. The Renton law will not affect marijuana, but will target highly addictive and dangerous drugs like fentanyl, meth, heroin, and stolen prescription drugs.
Details are not yet public. The City of Renton is bound by the State’s Open Public Meeting Act, and any private exchange of email between a majority of council members on a topic, even by accident, can constitute an illegal public meeting. To avoid this type of mistake, the details of the draft ordinance would typically not be shared with the majority of City Council until they are shared with the public– most likely on Thursday prior to the May 15 meeting, May 11 (note these dates are estimates and not firm at this time).
