mayor of yakima

Filing Week decisions, decisions!

A social media craze is making its way through Washington state, and now you have police officers using the ice challenge as a clever way to raise money for the officer-down memorial fund. I was called out by Tony Andrews from the Yakima Police Department to take the ice challenge, which involves dumping a bucket of ice water on your head. Here is the video of me taking the challenge.

The Yakima Air Terminal is a primary commercial service airport which receives regularly scheduled and unscheduled airline operations which requires the airport to uphold specific safety regulations governed by the Federal Aviation Administration. During previous FAA inspections it's been noted gophers continue to burrow and create mounds of dirt adjacent to the Runways and Taxiways. Due to this a

It’s been an incredibly busy week in Yakima. There will be major changes coming to Yakima in the next 7 months and the best part is it will be based on what the people of Yakima want. The last 4 years have been challenging from dealing with the impact of the recession, a lot of major transitions at the highest levels of city government, and finally signing the contract with a new city manager Tony

My older son, Mathew is a Freshman at Naches Valley High School and is part of the Leadership Club. The Mayor of Yakima, Micah Cawley or Mayor Cefus was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to talk to the Leadership Club at Naches High School...

I had the pleasure of touring Lewis and Clark Middle School this morning for about an hour. The Principal, Mr. Nourani took me around to a number of different classrooms to interact with the students and teachers. I was very impressed with the look of the school, it was clean and had a lot of purple colors throughout the buildings. The interior courtyard had some sort of purple tree and tulips in

Welcome to the first of many blogs over the course of the next two years. Today is very windy in the Yakima Valley and we are coming off a few days of unusual rain here in the heart of Central Washington. I won’t waste anytime getting to questions submitted through the 92...