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Bertha Cooper

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Think About It: The wages of shame

Several years ago, I volunteered my planning skills to help develop a wellness program for the students in…

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Think About It: Unhappy anniversary

The police saw Elijah McClain walking briskly and swinging a white plastic bag. The evening was dark and…

Bertha Cooper

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Think About It: Goodbye, Charlie

“I love helping a community be what it wants to be,” says Charlie Bush, former city manager of…

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Think About It: A shot in the arm

Of all the news coming out of Sequim, the best news is we are well into providing initial…

Bertha Cooper

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Think About It: Open government secrets

The Sequim School District superintendent has left the building. Dr. Robert Clark submitted his resignation following two and…

Bertha Cooper

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Think About It: Les Misérables?

People swarmed the roads and grass to the Capitol Building in DC, filled the balconies and stormed the…

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Think About It: Taking inventory

I hope by the time you read this column I will have sent some sort of holiday greeting…

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Think About It: Happy New Year (at last)!

Twenty-four percent more Christmas trees have been sold this year than at this same time last year. Either…

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Think About It: This couldn’t be normal, could it?

Beats me what’s “normal” nowadays. Normal may have gone the way of 8-track tapes and writing a letter…

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Think About It: ‘Children will listen’

“Careful the things you say.

Bertha Cooper

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Think About It: An impossible year, a Halloween story

The federal income tax distribution system existed for decades after Congress passed tax laws that mandated spreading the…

Bertha Cooper

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Think About It: Preying on the web

“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”

Think About It: Deep states

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Think About It: Deep states

Conspiracy theories, reliable science stand in stark contrast under the Trump administration