by Bob Benze (3/6/2010)

THE health-care debate raised a fundamental question: Exactly what are the rights the citizens of the United States are entitled to under the Constitution?

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by Steven Gardner for Kitsap Sun (1/3/2010)

Jan Angel, R-Port Orchard, is proposing a bill that would require cities and counties to notify property owners when their properties will be considered for rezoning. “There needs to be some kind of initial notification, and then whether people want to get involved in the initial hearings or go to meetings, that’s up to them,” Angel said of the proposed legislation. Angel...acknowledged her bill could qualify as an unfunded mandate. “And that’s why I darned near didn’t do it,” Angel said. “But I do believe it is the responsibility of government if they’re going to change the property’s zoning they have to notify the property’s owner.”

by Jan Angel, Representative, 26th Legislative District (1/3/2010)

More than 47,000 people in Pierce and Kitsap counties were unemployed in November. That’s more than the combined populations of Bremerton and Gig Harbor. Overall, the state has the highest jobless rate in more than two decades with at least 324,000 people looking for work. Yet even as working families struggle to get by with reduced hours and smaller paychecks, and employers try to keep their doors open and make payroll in this fragile economy, unfortunately, it seems to be business as usual at the state capitol...