Armen Yousoufian's Blog

After 30 years in business/investment real estate, I added "citizen activist" to my resume in 1997 when I requested sports stadium documents of King County Executive Ron Sims. After being "stonewalled", I sued, winning more at every stage, up to the state Supreme Court. Documents disgorged by Sims (after 4 years denying they existed!) revealed rigged studies. Sims misled the public on the stadiums. Other issues found me (e.g. Critical Areas Ordinance). Google “Armen Yousoufian” for more.

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Location: Vashon, Washington, United States

I was born and raised in New York City. I took classical violin lessons for 10 years and studied astronomy. I built telescopes, grinding the mirrors from scratch. I was a nerd! I considered a career in classical violin but chose astrophysics. I majored in Physics at Rutgers University for 2 years, then switched and graduated in mechanical engineering. I moved to Seattle in 1969 to work on missiles for Boeing, got an MBA from Seattle University, and became a business and real estate entrepreneur for over 30 years. In 1997 I became involved in open government activism when I asked King County Executive Ron Sims for sports stadium documents. I was stonewalled. I sued under the Open Records, or Public Disclosure, Act. I won the case in King County Superior Court, but still didn’t get all the documents, nor recovered my legal fees, which the law said I was entitled to be reimbursed. I appealed and won more in the Court of Appeals and the court of public opinion. But I still didn’t get all the documents! I appealed again and won yet more in the Washington State Supreme Court. But I still don’t have all the documents! While that fight goes on I have become involved in new issues.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Feb 7, 2007: Link to podcast of full hour on Dori Monson radio show today on KIRO 710 AM radio

February 19, 2007 UPDATE: PODCAST NO LONGER AVAILABLE AT KIRO WEBSITE - LINK BELOW IS TO THE AUDIO FILE AT MY OWN WEBSITE (thanks to Dori's producer, Phil, for sending me a CD of the broadcast).

Original post, before above update posted:

I was on the Dori Monson show on Seattle's KIRO 710 AM radio for a full hour today. With the current availability of podcasts on radio station websites, you can hear what went on, minus commercials and news and traffic breaks, over your computer, or even download the podcast. The net result is a 30 minute podcast - very concentrated and intense. See further below for details and link.

For those of you reading this who are not familiar with the Seattle radio market, KIRO has as powerful a signal as any local station and the highest, or near highest, radio listenership in this market (from their website: "At 50,000 watts, Newsradio 710 KIRO covers most of Western Washington including parts of Oregon and British Columbia. 710 KIRO is an Entercom-owned radio station and an affiliate of CBS Radio News.") Dori Monson's program is among the most listened to locally. I was originally scheduled for only 15 minutes, but as we got into the subject and callers phoned in, Dori held me over for the entire hour.

The link to the podcast is below. Again, the podcast omits all the commercials and news/traffic breaks, and ends up being just 30 minutes.
http://home.comcast.net/~ayousoufian/DORI_Yousoufian.mp3

posted by Armen Yousoufian | 9:04 PM

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