OK, OK, I’m recycling.
As a disciple of the late Gov. Dixy Lee Ray, I’m not convinced of the value of it yet, but I’m willing to listen to those who are and do.
Was it my imagination or were there an inordinate number of police out and about Kitsap County hunting prey over this past holiday weekend?
Everywhere I went, there were Sheriff’s deputies, Port Orchard and Bremerton police, and Washington State Patrol officers hiding around corners and behind bushes with their radar guns, etc., looking for any infraction that could justify pulling folks over.
Seeing a story in the newspapers the other day about a world wide “toilet revolution” reminded me of one of the accomplishments of the late House Speaker John L. O’Brien of Seattle that I hadn’t included in his obituary when he died last spring at 95.
It caused big problems for holiday travelers, but Paula Hammond, Washington’s new Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT), did the right thing when she pulled the four Steel Electric class ferries out of service the day before Thanksgiving.
The problem: Cracks and corrosion in the hulls.
Did it bother you when Brad left Jennifer? Do you cringe over every one of Britney’s exploits? Can you repeat them all if anyone asked?
Well, if you can answer yes to any of these questions, you may be what Carla Seaquist, State Rep. Larry Seaquist’s wife calls “the celebrity-starved.”
When the Washington State Legislature reconvenes in a few weeks, residents of South Kitsap can once again cringe while awaiting the output.
Will our lawmakers heed our wishes as expressed in two elections and leave the passenger-only ferry (POF) idea alone?
You know the scene. The Grinch braces the sleigh full of stolen presents atop a mountain when he hears the faint sounds of the Whos down in Whoville singing.
They sing, he realizes even though they have lost all their Christmas goodies, including the roast beast.
I was all ready for this last big windstorm.
The weather report I pay the most attention to is the one on what’s going on in Admiralty Inlet, which is my front yard. Well, really my backyard.
Today, there is an unavoidable urge to let government engineer our lives in the name of climate change.
We all know that children take their cues from adults.
Infused with new blood and wiser after years and scars from intra-party battling, Kitsap Republicans passed a nice, clean platform at their county convention Saturday — one guaranteed to offend nobody — and left vowing to keep the White House and take back Congress, the governor’s office, the Legislature and the courthouse.
The first column I ever wrote about Ellen Craswell was in August 1976 when she was running for the Legislature in the 23rd district and handing out sponges with her campaign slogan on them, “Let’s Clean House.”
I love meeting new people and coaxing out their stories, although sometimes I wonder what it would be like to assemble the wild, hodgepodge of unique and occasionally crazy characters who share their stories all together in the same room.
Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written specifically for this feature. Today, Mark Musser, stormwater field representative for the Building Industry Association of Washington, compares Hitler’s Nazi party to modern environmental extremists.
When I first started reading Julie Spadoni’s April 23 letter to the editor (“Let’s consume nothing at all”), I assumed it was a clever satire and it made me chuckle.
Odds are, if you know 150 children, one of them lies somewhere on a mysterious mental landscape called autism. Just as all children come in different shapes and sizes, so, too, does autism.
TREEMENDOUS TREES
FAITHFUL LIVING
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Recently, hundreds of people participated in community outreach events sponsored by the Washington Department of Veteran Affairs in Kitsap County. These events were held to honor our veterans for their service and focused on how we can support military families and veterans. I’m pleased that this year’s Legislature advanced these priorities.
