gristmill.grist.org - 3/10/2009
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Ron Sims wants to bring a fresh, green perspective to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sims -- the county executive of King County, Wash., which encompasses the Seattle metropolitan area -- is President Obama's nominee for deputy secretary of the department. "President Obama has ...
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gristmill.grist.org - 3/18/2009
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Throughout the United States, water management has been
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Ron Sims at HUD
Matthew Yglesias —
I don’t know a great deal about Ron Sims, head of King County in Washington (that’s Seattle and some surrounding areas), but apparently he’s going to be Deputy Secretary at HUD and based on Kate Sheppard’s writeup he seems like an excellent choice:
Sims has built up a national reputation for his efforts to reduce carbon emissions in the Seattle area and prepare the region for some of the now-unavoidable impacts of climate change. His work on global warming helped earn him acknowledgement as a Public Official of the Year in 2006 from Governing magazine, which honored him again in ...
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Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Seems like a good choice. Certainly, among Washington state politicians I always preferred him to Gary Locke...
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