Opinion

NKSD’s financial belt is getting tighter … again

Geez, Louise, the North Kitsap School District is in a tight financial predicament. To maintain its state-mandated balanced…

Opinion

‘Young at Heart’ has the secret for youth

This past weekend I had the pleasure of seeing a film that is truly life affirming. “Young at…

Opinion

Remember those who’ve served

Memorial Day is a day to remember those who have given their lives in the pursuit of freedom,…

Opinion

Correctly portraying one’s faith-filled life can by tricky

It’s a matter of control and I don’t intend to embrace any religion.

Opinion

Remember the fallen on Memorial Day

Not long ago, somebody asked me to name the hardest thing I’d encountered as governor.

Opinion

Immigrant integration question cuts both ways

Millions of immigrants in America, provoked by a callous anti-immigrant bill in Congress, took to the streets in…

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We should applaud the graduating seniors

Graduation is only weeks away for high school seniors at Bremerton High School, King’s West School, Renaissance High…

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Taking time for the fallen

Richard A Damschen, Jr., Robert Frank Wright, Wade Russell Reaume, Scott Eugene Sutherland, Christopher Bunda, Johnny C. Walls.…

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Big Foot alive and well — and living in Olympia

If the state bureaucracy had a foot, it would probably be comparable to that of professional basketball player…

Opinion

Anti-war group wanted to crash chamber’s party

Just as we were critical earlier this year when former Gov. Gary Locke visited Kitsap County and turned…

Opinion

Hill’s out, all eyes on Obama

One of my favorite Hollywood stories was the time some director or some such wanted or needed to…

Opinion

Reader Sound-Off

Pool needs public support

Opinion

You are only as old as you think you are

TORRENS TALK

Opinion

With McCain’s age will come experience

LIKE IT IS

Opinion

READER SOUND-OFF A transportation funding crisis? For who?

Another government agency is in a “crisis” over funding. Kitsap Transit has money problems. The increased fuel costs…

Opinion

Jail isn’t the answer

Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written…

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Task force probing county’s financial woes

Our county commissioners have appointed a budget advisory committee to consider long-term trends in spending and revenue and…

Opinion

Here’s to hoping history won’t repeat

Torrens Talk

Opinion

Welcome to Armed Forces Day

To some it may be hard to believe that it was 60 years ago, when the city of…

Opinion

Remembering the movement of the Mighty Mo

It will be 10 years on May 23 since the USS Missouri was towed out of Bremerton on…