In general, Washington state’s so-called “top-two” primary system, which the U.S. Supreme Court validated earlier
Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written specifically for this feature. Today, Jonathan Bechtle, staff counsel for the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, describes efforts by an out-of-state group to prevent Washington from implementing regulations intended to safeguard the integrity of its elections.
One of my favorite Hollywood stories was the time some director or some such wanted or needed to know Cary Grant’s age so he sent the actor a wire: “How old Cary Grant?”
Geez, Louise, the North Kitsap School District is in a tight financial predicament. To maintain its state-mandated balanced budget, the district has to cut about $2.8 million from its operating budget. Using the analogy of a perfect storm, the district gave the public an outline of the financial changes forcing the issue.
This past weekend I had the pleasure of seeing a film that is truly life affirming. “Young at Heart” is the story of a group of about two dozen septuagenarians and octogenarians plus one nonagenarian who have become an international hit as a chorus group.
Memorial Day is a day to remember those who have given their lives in the pursuit of freedom, but it’s also a day to honor those currently serving our country.
It’s a matter of control and I don’t intend to embrace any religion.
Not long ago, somebody asked me to name the hardest thing I’d encountered as governor.
Millions of immigrants in America, provoked by a callous anti-immigrant bill in Congress, took to the streets in May 2006.
Graduation is only weeks away for high school seniors at Bremerton High School, King’s West School, Renaissance High School and West Sound Technical School, an exciting time for students in area classrooms, especially those special seniors.
Richard A Damschen, Jr., Robert Frank Wright, Wade Russell Reaume, Scott Eugene Sutherland, Christopher Bunda, Johnny C. Walls. Those are just a few of the names of the brave men who from Bremerton who have made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom on foreign soil.
If the state bureaucracy had a foot, it would probably be comparable to that of professional basketball player Shaquille O’Neal.
Just as we were critical earlier this year when former Gov. Gary Locke visited Kitsap County and turned what should have been a simple address to local Boy Scouts into a poisonous rant about the Bush administration, and then again this month when former U.S. Attorney John McKay was invited as the keynote speaker for Kitsap County’s Law Day observance and devoted the opportunity to whining about having been fired, we would have been disappointed had the local chapter of Veterans for Peace been permitted to politicize Saturday’s Armed Forces Day parade in Bremerton.
One of my favorite Hollywood stories was the time some director or some such wanted or needed to know Cary Grant’s age so he sent the actor a wire: “How old Cary Grant?”
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Another government agency is in a “crisis” over funding. Kitsap Transit has money problems. The increased fuel costs that we must live with are more than the bus/ferry/rental car service can stand. Before we panic, let’s play “Connect The Dots.”
Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written specifically for this feature. Today, Trent Blackburn responds to a Guest Opinion suggesting a different approach to dealing with marijuana laws.
Our county commissioners have appointed a budget advisory committee to consider long-term trends in spending and revenue and to recommend particular policies that ought to be followed.
