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Board Supervisor election in March to fill an open Board of Supervisors seat. The 2021 election has attracted an unprecedented eight candidates for the position.
Brittany Bush Bollay, Kali Clark, John Comerford, Wayne Gullstad, Doug Hennick, Natalie Reber, Melissa Tatro, and
David Toledo are all vying for the open seat. Candidate statements can be read at
In 2020, KCD made international headlines by offering electronic ballot access for their Board Supervisor election. Those changes increased the visibility, and accessibility, of the election and doubled voter turnout from the prior year. To increase awareness of the election in 2021, KCD will be mailing out over 800,000 postcards to eligible voter households in the district with information on how to vote in our board election. …
A Fight to Save a Corporate Campus Intertwined With Nature
The Weyerhaeuser site near Seattle, praised for its balance of building and landscape, is at the center of a battle between conservationists and a developer.
The former corporate campus and headquarters of the timber company Weyerhaeuser in Federal Way, Wash. A developer wants to add industrial buildings to the campus.Credit.Grant Hindsley for The New York Times
Published Feb. 12, 2021Updated Feb. 19, 2021
Protests often erupt over proposals to demolish or even alter historic buildings. Threats to landscaping usually get far less attention.
But that’s changing in a Seattle suburb, where a developer plans to build on the corporate campus that George H. Weyerhaeuser created for his family’s timberland and wood products company beginning in the late 1960s.