Just when you thought there was nothing new to do around town, something unique makes its way into Bremerton.
One of the biggest issues facing us today is the cost of fuel and its effects on our economy and our lives. From getting to work, running a business, heating a home this winter or dealing with the related rise in prices of food and other items, the cost of fuel is impacting and will most likely continue to impact the way we live.
Quick — can you list the five rights named in the First Amendment?
I was just sitting down to write a column exploring my feelings on pork, the other white meat, when I read “Hunting Snipe,” Wendy Tweten’s June column on summer camp. And, just like there can never be too many camp songs or too many s’mores, I thought I’d add my two cents.
There’s something about the summer sun that taps into the moron in all of us. Once the temperature hits about 75-ish, summer officially begins, turning our brains into mush. And it’s universal. Everywhere you look, people are precariously putting their skin — and sometimes their lives — in danger without a second thought.
“In your article about the person in Port Angeles who had received medals and benefits not awarded, it seemed the fellow did receive a proper sentence,” writes Dennis Wojciak of Marysville.
The “person in Port Angeles” is one of the eight men in the Northwest who were caught by the Veterans Administration in a nationwide roundup of men who faked their military service and were charged with unlawful wearing of military medals and wrongful collection of military benefits.
Experience recently taught us more about Medicare coverage after hospitalization. For review: At www.medicare.gov, you find that “Medicare is a health insurance program for people age 65 or older, some disabled people under age 65, and people of all ages with End-Stage Renal Disease …” It’s a federal program administered by the states. If you qualify for Medicare, Part A covers hospitalization, Part B covers medical insurance such as doctors’ visits, and Part D is prescription drug coverage. Part A is our focus this month.
I was born back in 1950, when America was still recuperating from World War II. Mom was a widow with two young daughters. At around the age of five, I begged her to buy something long since forgotten. Her final exasperated response was, “Marylin, we’re poor. We can’t afford it.” Her words shook me. At five, I didn’t know exactly what “poor” entailed, but my imagination didn’t disappoint me.
The U.S. economy seems to be struggling and all of us in Kitsap County aren’t immune to the economic downturn. Unbelievable fuel prices are affecting all of us. Who would have thought we would be paying almost $5 a gallon for gas?
“In your article about the person in Port Angeles who had received medals and benefits not awarded, it seemed the fellow did receive a proper sentence,” writes Dennis Wojciak of Marysville.
Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written specifically for this feature. Today, 23rd District Washington State Rep. Sherry Appleton (D-Poulsbo) anticipates what could be the major issues the state will be grappling with during next year’s legislative session.
The season of terror is now underway. It is fireworks time.
Because of liberal laws regarding private use and the abundance of stands, both tribal and non-tribal fireworks can be heard exploding virtually everywhere in the county. If people would use them appropriately and safely, they would be tolerable. But, there are too many who do not. These folks are the problem that causes headaches and heartaches for the rest of us.
There are plenty of things most of us would rather do than idle in roadway congestion while nearby behemoth backhoes fill our cars with the heavy scent of exhaust.
I have to take issue with state Rep. Judy Warnick’s June 21 Guest Opinion (“Top-two primary best reflects people’s choice”) lauding the so-called “top-two” election process Washington state will adopt starting with the primary in August.
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Whether it’s carnival games and pie-eating contests or parades and professional displays of fireworks, there’s plenty of ways to celebrate the Fourth of July in Kitsap County, you just need to know where to go.
With gasoline now over $4 a gallon, ethanol losing its appeal as a substitute fuel which would cost more to produce than gas and the ANWR still locked up for the caribou, how about doing what we did when we were crying the blues over gasoline in the 1970s?
Drop the speed limit on highways nationwide to 55 miles per hour.
For years now, “growth management” has seemed to involve efforts to control land use to restrict real estate development in some areas and hope for economic development in others.
What happens when there is little growth to be managed by government?
Many people had supposed that completion of the Tacoma Narrows bridge project would spur population and economic growth in South Kitsap. Rush-hour traffic congestion on the old bridge was an obvious impediment to growth.
