How would cutting 100 sheriff’s deputies affect police response times? How would a reduction of 30 deputy prosecutors impact our ability to put criminal suspects on trial?
These are examples of the gr…
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lasting impressions
Last August, after a brief vacation, I returned to The Beachcomber with a gift for Eric Horsting, who had steered the ship in my absence. It was a smooth, pale-gray rock wit…
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To some of us, it may seem like tilting at windmills to take on Glacier Northwest. The company is huge, rich and relentless. It also, obviously, has a keen financial interest in the tons of sand and g…
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Northwest Foraging
Many plants that are maligned as weeds are actually highly beneficial, with a long history of…
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summer suggestions
I predict the next edition of Webster’s Dictionary will contain a word born from this economi…
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growing up on Vashon
“You can always tell the English. You can always tell the Dutch. You can always tell Lubahn…
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Giving
t And what if they all went on strike?
Imagine a bright Monday morning. You get your older child ready fo…
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Motherhood
On March 28, with six weeks to go until my due date, my midwife worried that the baby’s growth had slo…
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Kids are rejoicing. Parents who work outside of the home are scrambling to piece it all together. And a new energy has a…
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The pea sprouts are about 10 inches high now. Noticing this, I decided I’d better patrol the perimeter of the deer fence…
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