Opinion
Cornfield: Odd political partners may help avoid shutdown
These days, Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty Murray isn’t surprised to get a text from the man who may…
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Editor’s Corner: Newspapers make headlines, too
Last week saw a changing of the guard in media circles here on the Olympic Peninsula. You may…
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Cooper: Paralysis
Not again; please … not again. We were having coffee the last morning before our return from what…
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Guest Opinion: Bond approval, a matter of necessity
The Sequim School District bond proposal before voters on the Nov. 3 ballot is the result of long-term…
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Water Matters: Keeping an eye on water, a key peninsula resource
“Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.” Do you remember these lines from your school days?…
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Verbatim: Luke Jacobsen
After a long pause, three words came to Luke Jacobsen’s mind while reflecting on his solo trek on…
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Brunell: When forests become the ‘Big Polluters’
We associate air pollution with big cities, but millions of people are feeling the impacts of pollution from…
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Cooper: Trump political correctness!
Ever since the now well-known response by Donald Trump, one of the candidates for President — in case…
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Verbatim: Tim Wheeler … and a cow named Maybe
Tim Wheeler shares a story that, as he writes, “ultimately will appear in my memoir, if I ever…
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Cooper: Signs of our time
During the hottest part of the unsettling heat and dryness, my husband and I found ourselves paying a…
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Burbank: Public school funding will pay off in the end
This week is the real start of the new year. Parents take their 5-year-olds to their first day…
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Cornfield: Not the last word on charter schools?
Try as it might, Washington just can’t get this charter school thing down right.
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Editor’s Corner: The time I got lost in Boston …
When I began preparing this column, it started off as a wistful bit of prose ruminating about the…