Border Battles Revisited

So, I've kinda backed away from the Lake Stevens vs. Snohomish turf battle over the last week, but I thought we should note that the County Council voted 4-1 today to throw both the Lake Stevens and Snohomish/Mike Reid proposals off the docket - effectively telling both cities that no one entitity was gonna grab all the goodies for themselves.

We first wrote about this a few weeks ago, and I editorialized in my OtR/LS Journal column that the County Council (and Council President Dave Somers) would be wise to junk both proposals.

A bit later, The Herald covered the issue with a sprawling (and quite good) front page feature and arrived at the same conclusion that we did earlier in an excellent editorial they ran Sunday.

And to the haters: this isn't an "I told you so" post. Or maybe it is?

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