Dear U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, I attended your recent town hall meeting in Kingston. We appreciate your coming up our…
We all know someone who is out of work. If you don’t, then drop by the local food banks or…
Both federal and state operating budgets are being cut back in hopes of keeping us from falling over the brink…
Ever wonder about the difference between conservatives and liberals? I have, many times. I recently read a Nicholas Kristof op-ed…
No one joyfully shares their hard-earned money with the government, but paying taxes is still not a punishment. “Taxes are…
Life can get hectic. I no longer enjoy multi-tasking, even when I can. What I used to do in a…
Dear President Obama, You don’t know me, we haven’t yet met. I live in a little town across the Puget…
Town hall meetings, protests, debates, civil discourse – these are all important for a strong democracy. There’s nothing like a…
Changes are afoot to reform health care. This is an incredibly complex topic with the medical marketplace being as huge…
The powerful and the privileged are doing a dandy job of waging class warfare to protect their way of life….
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has yet to be signed by President Obama as I write this in mid-February, but the stimulus package has passed the House and Senate, with only three Republican votes.
The Lincoln Bicentennial is being celebrated across the country. History has been mostly reverent to our 16th president. Yet some of us are old enough to remember back to the 1960s and 70s when some began taking a more critical look at Lincoln’s motives for signing the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Lincoln Bicentennial is being celebrated across the country. History has been mostly reverent to our 16th president. Yet some of us are old enough to remember back to the 1960s and 70s when some began taking a more critical look at Lincoln’s motives for signing the Emancipation Proclamation.
Every four years since 1789 – excluding second terms – America has had a bloodless revolution, a transfer of power…
President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama has won his election. We have much to be thankful for.
While Senators McCain and Obama have been discussing their plans to handily repair our nation’s broken economy, my mind has been admittedly elsewhere.
I was born back in 1950, when America was still recuperating from World War II. Mom was a widow with two young daughters. At around the age of five, I begged her to buy something long since forgotten. Her final exasperated response was, “Marylin, we’re poor. We can’t afford it.” Her words shook me. At five, I didn’t know exactly what “poor” entailed, but my imagination didn’t disappoint me.
Tibet and China have centuries of interactive history, neither agreeing on the other’s versions.
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