O, for the days of regulated airlines. Prices and routes were predictable. Airlines provided good customer service. They offered incentives to travel with them: free hot meals, pillows and blankets, unlimited free checked baggage. And that was for all flyers, including coach. Nowadays, that sounds like something from a fantasy, especially if one flies coach.
Probably the most important position in South Kitsap — and by far the highest paying government job — is superintendent of South Kitsap schools.
On Tuesday Bremerton lost a former mayor and city councilman, a family lost a loving, generous husband, father and grandfather and the world lost a great human being as Maurice “Morrie” Dawkins died after battling a long illness.
This issue is the last one where the title, Editor, will follow the name Charles Melton, but that doesn’t mean a complete disappearance from the Bremerton Patriot. It merely means that after 335 days after returning to Bremerton after two years in Poulsbo, a new challenge awaits beginning Sunday afternoon.
Joel Pritchard told me years ago that if you are really thinking about running for public office, get out your Christmas card list and write a note to everybody on it asking if they’d be willing to contribute to your campaign.
On Tuesday Bremerton lost a former mayor and city councilman, a family lost a loving, generous husband, father and grandfather and the world lost a great human being as Maurice “Morrie” Dawkins died after battling a long illness.
Joel Pritchard told me years ago that if you are really thinking about running for public office, get out your Christmas card list and write a note to everybody on it asking if they’d be willing to contribute to your campaign.
When Bremerton Patriot editor Charles Melton offered me the opportunity to write a trio of columns for the newspaper this spring and summer, I reasoned that one of them should contain a review of the 2008 legislative session. That column was published in early April.
There are two kinds of people in the world: sinkers and swimmers. I used to be a sinker. Now I’m…
Last week, a whole lot of people from Sooke took part in the chamber of commerce golf tournament.
The District of Sooke implemented the business licence bylaw and it appears they are having a difficult time finding all of the business owners.
In the wake of an earlier column about our state rejecting a $13.2 million education grant, people are asking, “What is going wrong in Washington?”
On any given day, there are usually a handful of people enjoying the outdoors at Silverdale Waterfront Park.
Last week the Central Kitsap Reporter published a column written by a state senator from Maple Valley critiquing decisions to build new ferries in the state of Washington. The senator from East King County began by comparing our ferry system to a bad Woody Allen joke.
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In general, Washington state’s so-called “top-two” primary system, which the U.S. Supreme Court validated earlier
Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written specifically for this feature. Today, Jonathan Bechtle, staff counsel for the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, describes efforts by an out-of-state group to prevent Washington from implementing regulations intended to safeguard the integrity of its elections.
One of my favorite Hollywood stories was the time some director or some such wanted or needed to know Cary Grant’s age so he sent the actor a wire: “How old Cary Grant?”
