I don't understand what changing our name will accomplish. What do you want to call it establish our city identity? City of the Performing Arts Center? Stripmalltown? I know, how about we waste tens of thousands of dollars more to have some marketing company come up with worthless ideas. Embrace our history don't hide from it. King County has already tried to rewrite its history by adopting the image of Martin Luther King Jr. as the basis for its identity. Don't get me wrong, I am well aware of the former namesakes slaveholding past, but hey we live in Washington (slaveholder) that includes other counties including Jefferson (slaveholder) and I don't hear anyone calling for their names to change. Kent was named because they grew hops that reminded a railroad employee of Kent Country, England. Is that what we envision when we think of Kent? Let's be proud of where we come from and where we are going. We don't need to change our name for that.