County focus

• Executive vision realized with "Connections for Our Future", Oct. 25, 2006
• Proposed 2007 Budget address to the King County Council, Oct. 16, 2006
• State of the County 2006, King County Council chambers, May 22, 2006

National and international spotlight

• Rails to Trails Conservancy Biennial TrailLink Conference, Aug. 9, 2007
• African Cities Symposium on Climate Change, Sept. 20, 2006
• Model for healthcare reform, Washington D.C. on Jan. 25, 2006
• Thinking globally while zoning locally, Stanford University, on May 23, 2005

For Martin Luther King day

• Seattle Community College Event, Jan. 12, 2007
• King County event, Jan. 11, 2007
• King County event, Jan. 12, 2006
• Facing the Storm: People Responding as One, UW, Jan. 12, 2006
• KentLake High School's MLK assembly, Jan. 12, 2006

Health

• Executive Sims speaks on Roe v. Wade anniversary, Jan. 23, 2006
• Livable communities and health, Nov. 21, 2005
• Health care for the needy, Oct. 24, 2005
• Health disparity, Sept. 30, 2005

Environment

• Conservation Connections: Tools for the 21st Century, April 21, 2006
• Performance measures in Cascadia, Sept. 13, 2005
• Restoring Puget Sound, Sept. 14, 2005