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The transportation beliefs we have, and the resulting policies, funding, and ultimately, infrastructure, affect all aspects of civic life, including human and climate health, housing costs and …
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David Thielk
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4/14/23
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I’m looking for a few funny men — or women— in the new year.
Gray skies? Let’s lighten up.
I’m always looking for funny people.
I’ve found …
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Bill Mann
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1/4/23
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I know summer’s here when I hear our red-and-white ice-o-matic cranking, and three horn blasts from the SodaStream filling a liter of carbonated water. We’re both devoted to homemade …
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Sidonie Maroon
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7/13/22
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The second week of our grand adventure in New Zealand featured some characters who may actually represent all of the disparate people of the country.
We spent five days traveling from Christchurch …
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Ned Luce
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5/3/23
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“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.” – Louisa May Alcott
The first roses appeared on earth about 35 million years ago, originating in Asia and …
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Barbara Faurot
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7/13/22
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Welcome to 2023, the year holding the promise of good cheer, mutual respect, civility, and many more fantasies.
Ah, you say, he is a sarcastic pessimist.
Not true, he is an …
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Ned Luce
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1/5/23
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In carpentry, sistering is the process of joining two or more structural members together to act as one unified unit.
When builders need to add strength to damaged structures, they will add …
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Liz Revord
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2/10/23
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I suspect you may have already realized that the world is actually a little silly much of the time. This week I provide my own contribution to it.
If you are a football fan you may have heard …
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Ned Luce
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2/10/23
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Several friends of mine seem more than glad to share quotes, sayings, advice, and observation with me on a regular basis.
I do collect those I find of interest in a file named “Leader” …
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Leader News Staff
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On Saturdays, our neighborhood gang would head down to VanWay’s market to buy candy. They’d head for the Gobstoppers and Hot Zotz, but I’d always meander into produce and buy a …
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Sidonie Maroon
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10/12/22
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So many of us thought the worst had passed. Although the fate of the Port Townsend pool, located at Mountain View Commons and run by the Olympic Peninsula YMCA, remains under consideration, it seemed …
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JASON VICTOR SERINUS
As I see it
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4/24/24
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A few oddments left out of our regular police and sheriff’s calls:
— PT police were asked by a well-known, local, psychic exile where he could buy an air freshener for his …
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Bill Mann
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7/14/22
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You feel it, don’t you. The weather is better and family is coming to visit.
Last week was full of our daughter and her family in town. We have no shame in getting them to do some things …
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Ned Luce
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7/14/22
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Are you ready for a cranky columnist? While most of the time I’m cheerful and in a positive mood there are those occasions when my buttons are pushed, and I react. In a recent conversation with …
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CAROLE MARSHALL
AGING IN
GOOD SPIRITS
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4/24/24
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Dot’s Right, as famed San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen used to say when leading off his trademark ellipsis-driven, multi-item columns:
Keep on Truckin’: Am I the only one …
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Bill Mann
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4/26/23
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Soccer, rugby, cricket, and so many other games I do not totally understand yet enjoy watching and would have enjoyed playing in my younger days. Well maybe not cricket. Upon reflection, I think …
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Ned Luce
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5/31/23
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As a species who possesses the ability to reason, we humans still haven’t figured out how to stop creating so much non-compostable waste.
In America, with a population of 330 …
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Tracy Grisman
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5/31/23
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