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The meaning of good health
I love the Internet. I don’t miss the days when one had to go to the bookstore or…
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Pat Cashman | Dealing with those who can’t pronounce Puyallup
My next-door neighbor recently told me that he began to ‘horripilate’ while watching local TV news last week.…
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Bill Schultheis | When Wall Street ruins a good idea
Leave it to Wall Street to turn a good idea inside out and come up with an investment…
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John Carlson| Are more guns better for us?
Is our society safer or less safe because of guns? On “60 Minutes” last Sunday, Leslie Stahl focused…
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Patty Luzzi | For now, it’s all about sacrifice
Since September, when the shadow of depression crossed over the world, when banks and companies, large and small,…
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Jan Nestler | Eliminating critical help for seriously ill seniors is a travesty
The pending decision by the Legislature to axe the state’s Adult Day Health program is going to cause…
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Got ‘cow poop?’ You may have renewable energy
Cow poop is changing the world – or at least making it a little greener. Every time ol’Bossy…
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Pat Cashman | On the missing list
My byline appears at the head of this essay. It’s also the name that’s on all my important…
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Walter Backstrom | A light to guide me home
I once spent five days living, sleeping and eating with the homeless. I talked to Metro bus drivers,…
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John Carlson | Brian Sonntag: A good man under attack in Olympia
What’s the most overused word in government? My nominee is “investment”. In the real world an investment is…
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Patti Skelton-McGougan | Early and ongoing dialogue works best when dealing with drugs
Parents often wonder when they should sit their kids down to talk about drugs and alcohol. They may…
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Walter Backstrom | Music is the soul of society
To understand the soul of any society, listen to its music. I grew up listening to what is…
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Time do deal with the budget
April 26, 2009. That is the last day of the Legislature under the state Constitution. That’s less than…
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Patty Luzzi | A beagle, those howls, and a life
It was the Advent of Christmas 1996. Our son John, age 13, had a well prepared list of…
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John Carlson | Is the state budget really that bad?
A couple of weeks ago I attended a town hall where a trio of Eastside legislators warned darkly…
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Walter Backstrom | Letter to a young black man
It seems sometimes I grew up in a different country than you. I grew up in a time…