Wednesday, May 22, 2019
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In this week’s edition of The Leader you’ll notice a photo essay in our section C. The Rhody Keepsake, as we call it. It is a compilation of our team’s hard work, bouncing from …
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You can see part of a wonderfully peculiar future for Port Townsend in the 27 huge shipping crates recently delivered to Pete and Cathy Langley’s foundry.
The sturdy boxes protect hundreds …
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Budding journalists may not agree on much other than this: they’d all love to work at the New York Times.
And despite what preconceived notions you might have about its liberal bias, the …
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Tom Mullen
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5/8/19
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“Deadline” is the right term for that snapshot moment when we commit our work to paper. In ink.
It’s the right term because we’re dead to the reader if we’ve missed …
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Two weeks ago, we ran an editorial criticizing the County Commissioners on their unanimous decision to pass an ordinance that would allow them to unilaterally remove from the courthouse anyone they …
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Can we all agree we need more, not less, information about the probe into Russia’s election-sabotage methods?
President Donald Trump can’t seem to decide whether Republican Robert …
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Pictures of a possible cougar kill at Fort Worden stoked Jefferson County’s rumor-mill last week. Whether the carcass was left by coyotes, cougars or collies, this is a good time for us to get …
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Dean Miller
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4/24/19
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Anthony had been learning new types of knots for several months. Why had he been practicing knots? No one knew. Perhaps more accurately, no one cared.
Sitting in our middle school biology class in …
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Lloyd Mullen
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4/24/19
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I haven’t had the courage to swing by my great-great-grandfather’s grave on the west side of Port Townsend lately.
I fear I’ll discover him spinning in his grave to learn his …
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I know which side of history I want to be on and it is that of family-owned newspapers and local businesses, not the Silicon Baronies.
When our history is told, the fecklessness and greed of …
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This week, the Washington House of Representatives passed a measure that may allow us to ditch the hour we lost this Sunday, permanently.
Now it’s up to Congress to see if …
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Lobbyists get a bad rap.
Next week, my brother and I will join a ragtag group of newspaper owners from small communities around the country in our nation’s capital. We will do our best to ensure …
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Lloyd Mullen
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3/6/19
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