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Other factors that contribute to crashes
Q: I appreciate your appeal to people to improve safe driving behaviors but the framing about human error…
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Minority viewpoint needed on SK school board
I was not given a chance to respond in an article published in this newspaper relating to a…
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‘Meaningful’ doesn’t have to be something newsworthy
One afternoon last week I went for a walk at Fort Ward and got in 15,000 steps. While…
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Self-driving cars are always 5 years away
Q: Wasn’t it like 10 years ago that Elon Musk promised we’d have fully autonomous cars in five…
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Water quality protection headed in right direction
Tribes have traveled a long road and back again to improve water quality standards and protect the health…
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Categories to evaluate Christmas light displays
One of my fondest childhood memories of Christmas in the 1970’s was riding around in the family station…
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Life lessons to keep you from feeling sorry for yourself
This is the column in which I typically offer up my personal resolutions for the coming year, as…
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Young or impaired, not deaf, drivers are dangerous
Q: There is a commercial on TV featuring a deaf driver. Are deaf people allowed to drive, or…
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Let’s save health care and drop the ‘secular’
Put your mind at ease. St. Michael Medical Center is certainly secular healthcare saved. The recent Kitsap News…
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It may not add up, but, yes, there is a Santa Claus
As I put the kids to bed on a night before Christmas some years ago, and prepared to…
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Instead of full of life, in malls we fear for our lives
I read a great piece about the nostalgia many hold for their favorite old suburban shopping malls —…
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Right wrong again – this time about Griner
It sure didn’t take long for right-wing media figures to criticize the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner.
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At least 12 reasons to dislike ‘12 Days of Christmas’
The 2008 holiday season is upon us. If you are thinking that holiday shopping will be a bit…
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Don’t skip or get needled about returning to vinyl
Vinyl records are making a comeback, and it’s not just nostalgic old fogies who are driving the trend.…
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People returning to stores, but it’s not all good news
The good news is, despite higher prices, inflation and safety concerns, more Christmas shoppers are browsing online but…
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Climate change forces tribes to leave traditional lands behind
Native nations are on the front lines of climate change. The impacts have reached our shores and are…
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Most wonderful time of the year for even more Christmas movies
When it comes to sappy holiday movies, you either scorn them as you would another pair of reindeer-themed…
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What defines a slow-moving vehicle?
Q: I’ve always wondered about the five-car rule when you are driving the speed limit. I pull over…
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Crack down on illegal pot farms that provide killer fentanyl
The Democrats kept the Senate. GOP gets the House. So how about if we – i.e., the politicians…
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DUIs pertain to pain medicines as well
Q: I just had surgery, and I was prescribed some painkillers that say, “Do not drive a motor…