For the first time since the state constitution was amended to allow approval by a simple majority of voters, the South Kitsap School District is preparing to place a maintenance and operations levy proposition on the ballot.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that kids’ meals at restaurants and fast food establishments are loaded with fat.
How about this for a way to save money?
Cut high school back to two years. Why do they need four? Most of them just lollygag around in the final two years, some ditching school altogether before they get that far.
They’re busy earning money to support their cars.
Cut high school back to two years. Why do they need four? Most of them just lollygag around in the…
I write in response to Edward Roe’s July 23 “Thumbs Down” in the Port Orchard Independent regarding Adele Ferguson’s column about climate charge (“There’s a lot of hot air in global warming,” July 19).
T he city of Port Orchard drew a line in the sand and Bremerton stepped over it. The question now is whether we plan to do anything about it.
America is hurting.
How about this for a way to save money?
Gov. Chris Gregoire was turned away from an Olympia bar by the bouncer after she was unable to provide her ID.
The governor reportedly forgot her ID at home and was denied access by the 23-year-old who told her no one is allowed in the bar without valid identification. So she went home.
Among the iconic images of Washington state, those of the state’s quaint green-and-white ferry boats have no peer – like Mount Rainier, the Space Needle, and pods of Orcas, the charm exuded by these double-ended vessels serenely crossing Puget Sound or knitting small communities in the San Juan Islands to the world is the stuff of which the dreams of tourism officials are made.
Hate ’em or love ’em, you have to have ’em. With about 35 baseball fields in the county, baseball umpires are as necessary as a sweater in July.
Maine and Massachusetts are learning that doing the math carefully before passing legislation would have saved a lot of pain and suffering.
Today, most family-wage jobs in Washington require some form of post-secondary education or training.
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I grew up in a fruit bowl.
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Gov. Chris Gregoire was turned away from an Olympia bar by the bouncer after she was unable to provide her ID.
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