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However, as we near our annual festival, we will be worshipping a state flower that once flourished throughout the wayside but now has been plowed under by a burgeoning population.
The GOP has …
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"Mitch McConnell is not an Opposition Leader, he is a pawn for the Democrats to get whatever they want," Trump said in a statement last week. "He is afraid of them, and will not do …
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THE .45 PISTOLS ABOVE were featured in an on-line ad that begins: “The ‘Keep America ‘Great’ (KAG) Trump 1911 features the President’s 2020 campaign model engraved on …
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I’LL BE CREEPING UP ON MY 96TH BIRTHDAY by the time the 2024 election rolls around, and a lot can happen between now and then. But that election remains one of my several goals of the moment. …
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IN THE MEANTIME, young-enough President Biden, who will reach my age in about 14 years, seems to be doing fairly well with the American public—despite a conservative Supreme Court, a GOP House …
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I like the way the rainbow above ends aboard the local ferry chugging to or from its berth . . . and the calm manner in which the local gull poses for the photo.
MEANWHILE, models predict that …
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Book bans have become a crucial issue in our increasingly fragile democracy. Under the guise of enforcing “community standards” and “protecting children,” a new cultural …
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“IN AN INCREDIBLE DISPLAY of utter tastelessness, Donald Trump Jr. insisted in a rage-filled video on social media . . . that the Uvalde mass shooter could have killed 19 children with a …
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THE CLAIM ABOVE, OF COURSE, IS STARKLY AT ODDS, “not only with the history of westward expansion but with the history of Florida; thousands of Native Americans were forcibly relocated from the …
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Elizabeth Cheney has been the U.S. representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district since 2017. She chaired the House Republican Conference, the third-highest position in the House …
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“Mag” is short for magnetometer, an instrument for detecting the presence of ferrous or magnetic materials, as in concealed weapons.
In a recent post, Trump mocked the criticism he has …
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So here we are in 2023—Ukraine in a shambles as Putin sits uncaring at the head of an ill-informed and incompetent Russian military, bombarding civilian targets in Ukraine in the dead of an icy …
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Sadly, I don’t have the names of any of these individuals striking a commemorative pose probably a short time before or after 1890. The McCurdy Building was erected in 1887, downtown at the …
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MORE ABOUT RACISM (and a surviving Free Press)—The Seattle Times reported late last week that “a county commissioner in far southeast Oklahoma who was identified by s local newspaper as …
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My days of anticipation of when the carnival arrived in town have long since passed, but I’ll always remember those days of my youth when Washington Street in downtown Port Townsend was closed …
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I WONDER HOW MUCH LARGER it would have gotten over the past 130 years or so. And how tall was this tree?
As is occasionally the case I had no corresponding photo to go with the following blog I …
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I GUESS WE’VE LOST A LOT due to the Covid pandemic since the last Port Townsend Alumni Association reunion and banquet was held in 2019. But the other day I received announcement from alumni, …
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Deer have grown to like and trust us, it seems. This fawn later was moved to a more secluded spot.
We’ve lived quite a while in the same house on an oversized. well-hedged lot …
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Let’s hop in the car again for our annual, albeit incomplete, tour and grading of our local holiday light displays:
—We’ll start on west Hastings, just north of Sheridan. …
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BILL MANN
MANN OVERBOARD
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12/13/23
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Living a long life brings many benefits and joys. I cannot identify anyone’s aging pleasures beyond my own, but my sister-in-law, Kathie, sums it up well. “I wake up in the morning, I …
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CAROLE MARSHALL
AGING IN
GOOD SPIRITS
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12/13/23
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