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    Think About It: A shot in the arm
    By Bertha Cooper • February 10, 2021 1:30 am

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

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    Bertha Cooper
    Think About It: Open government secrets
    By Bertha Cooper • January 27, 2021 1:30 am

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

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    Bertha Cooper
    Think About It: Les Misérables?
    By Bertha Cooper • January 13, 2021 1:30 am

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

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    Bertha Cooper
    Think About It: Taking inventory
    By Bertha Cooper • December 30, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    Bertha Cooper
    Think About It: Happy New Year (at last)!
    By Bertha Cooper • December 16, 2020 1:30 am

    Twenty-four percent more Christmas trees have been sold this year than at this same time last year. Either we don’t…

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    Bertha Cooper
    Think About It: This couldn’t be normal, could...
    By Bertha Cooper • December 2, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    Bertha Cooper
    Think About It: ‘Children will listen’
    By Bertha Cooper • November 4, 2020 1:30 am

    “Careful the things you say.

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    Bertha Cooper
    Think About It: An impossible year, a Halloween...
    By Bertha Cooper • October 21, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    Bertha Cooper
    Think About It: Preying on the web
    By Bertha Cooper • October 7, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    Think About It: Deep states
    Think About It: Deep states
    By Bertha Cooper • September 23, 2020 1:30 am

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

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    Think About It: ‘(How come) this country doesn’t love us back’?
    Think About It: ‘(How come) this country doesn’t...
    By Bertha Cooper • September 9, 2020 1:30 am

    Why is this country so afraid of black men?

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    Think About It: When the air clears
    Think About It: When the air clears
    By Bertha Cooper • August 26, 2020 1:30 am

    Pandemic has made it harder to escape a dark reality for too many people and explain our inaction

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    Think About It: An impossible year, part II
    Think About It: An impossible year, part II
    By Bertha Cooper • August 12, 2020 1:30 am

    “Would there even be a place for contemplation and peace during a year that promises swarms of competing ideologies, social…

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