What was the top story of 2012? Add your opinions to the comment section below
Dec. 14: Downtown Seattle hearing draws more than 2,300 to speak on coal trains
Dec. 5: With Harbor Square plan, building height concerns again take center stage in Edmonds
Sept. 20: Edmonds Waterfront Antique Mall property sold to Lynnwood-based company.
Aug. 22: Budget woes continue for City of Edmonds, as 2013 deficit projection doubles.
Aug. 26: Downtown Edmonds Tully’s closing
July 6: Hearing Examiner approves permit for Walgreens store, bank on Robin Hood Lanes property
July 1: Dogs banned from Edmonds Museum Farmers Market
June 7: Edmonds police officer arrested for alleged sex with woman in his custody
June 5: Kristiana Johnson appointed newest member of Edmonds City Council
June 5: Edmond cat leash law repealed
June 12: Hazel Miller Plaza gets warm welcome in downtown Edmonds
June 19: Edmonds link to Interurban trail officially opened through Lake Ballinger neighborhood
May 22: Edmonds City Council approves a 27-home development next to Hickman Park in Southwest Edmonds
April 25: Strategic plan survey results: Edmonds needs wider variety of stores, more affordable housing
April 16: Edmonds volunteer extraordinaire Mary Van Meter named the 2012 Citizen of the Year
April 7: Water from malfunctioning sprinkler system closes Petosa’s Family Grocer
Feb. 23: Five workers injured in explosion at Picnic Point construction site
Feb. 22: Michael Plunkett says he’s resigning from Edmonds City Council
Feb. 7: Edmonds police report 41-percent dip in home burglaries
Jan. 14: Independent investigator finds most claims of ex-mayor’s assistant Kim Coles unfounded
Jan. 3: With swearing in of Joan Bloom, women now in majority on Edmonds City Council
Think locally or think globally? Each of the top stories published in 2012 is worthy of being number one. So, how does one decide? Taking any excuse to lay on the couch, I wrestled with the dilemma.
After much deliberation, I chose the story that has both local and global aspects. And that would be [drum roll] “Downtown Seattle hearing draws more than 2,300 to speak on coal trains.”
Most Edmonds residents are aware of the local effects of the coal trains traveling along the rail line. Many of us who oppose the project have expressed our views in written or oral form.
Some folks do not recognize or acknowledge the wider implications. We, the members of the loyal opposition, view the project holistically beginning with the extraction of coal from the fields, followed by transportation of the raw material to the proposed seaports, shipment to the Orient and finally the burning of the fossil fuel that steadily warms the planet.
Just an ad on Barbra:
So we cannot use the coal here because of Government regulations but we can then ship it to China where they have very few regulations concerning filtering out the most harmfull chemicals into the atmophere. The result in the long run is much worse for all inhabitants of Mother earth. Of course it,s about the money We all know the end result
is not benificial to the physical health of any American.