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    Articles by Bertha Cooper
    Cooper: Testing the Constitution
    Cooper: Testing the Constitution
    By Bertha Cooper • January 4, 2017 1:30 am

    Well over 200 years ago, a representative group of men from the 13 colonies formalized the Constitution of the United…

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    Cooper: Art, or the deal of power?
    Cooper: Art, or the deal of power?
    By Bertha Cooper • December 21, 2016 1:30 am

    Knock knock … knock knock … knock knock …

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    Cooper: Dredging up the past
    Cooper: Dredging up the past
    By Bertha Cooper • December 7, 2016 1:30 am

    At first glance it looked like a Mississippi paddle wheeler that beached itself on the river bank like a dying…

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    Cooper: Gut wrenching
    Cooper: Gut wrenching
    By Bertha Cooper • November 23, 2016 1:30 am

    I hope by the time this column is published, I will no longer have to double up on the daily…

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    Cooper: A Halloween story
    Cooper: A Halloween story
    By Bertha Cooper • November 14, 2016 1:30 am

    Editor’s note: This column originally apperared in the Oct. 26, 2016 edition of the Sequim Gazette. — MD

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    Cooper: Damage control
    Cooper: Damage control
    By Bertha Cooper • November 9, 2016 1:30 am

    Don’t let the air out of your balloon so fast that you fly around the room and crash to the…

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    Cooper: Reality check
    Cooper: Reality check
    By Bertha Cooper • November 14, 2016 1:30 am

    I keep wondering how our lives can be so normal, even ordinary when we are surrounded by a fire storm…

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    Cooper: Advice to the shopworn
    Cooper: Advice to the shopworn
    By Bertha Cooper • July 20, 2016 3:38 pm

    Some of you, probably all of you, will be surprised that readers ask me for advice on occasion. I take these questions seriously because I take seriously that someone would reach out to me for the answers to life’s questions.

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    Cooper: Plan a head to plan ahead
    Cooper: Plan a head to plan ahead
    By Bertha Cooper • July 6, 2016 1:14 pm

    How is it that the United Kingdom is so unprepared to leave the European Union? Seems the “establishment” of the UK was as surprised at the vote outcome as the Republicans were when Romney lost the last Presidential election.

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    Cooper: Rigged rules rule
    Cooper: Rigged rules rule
    By Bertha Cooper • June 22, 2016 1:49 pm

    I kept expecting the Pony Express to arrive any minute to deliver the results of the Washington State Democratic Presidential primary contest. Is the process of selecting candidates for the highest office in the land this old-fashioned in our technological age?

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    Cooper: Our inner grump
    Cooper: Our inner grump
    By Bertha Cooper • June 8, 2016 2:14 pm

    Are we collectively losing our minds or is it just me? Don’t answer that.

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    Bertha Cooper (far right) helps count jump roping at the Healthy Community Coalition booth at the Kids Fair
    Cooper: Kids play
    By Bertha Cooper • May 25, 2016 2:45 pm

    I was trying to write something thoughtful and serious about the relentless campaign messages intended to humiliate and demean the character of another person or group of people.

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    Bertha Cooper discusses bathroom use.
    Think about … Bathroom privileges
    By Bertha Cooper • May 11, 2016 3:08 pm

    I have one reason in mind when I go into a women’s public bathroom and it is typically the only reason that I enter one. You know exactly what I mean.

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