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Burbank: Time to reflect on our values
As we celebrate our nation’s birthday on the Fourth of July, perhaps we should do some reflecting about…
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Verbatim: Steve Burkett
After attending 1,500 city council meetings and preparing eight different cities’ budgets over his 46-year career, Sequim City…
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Cooper: Goodbye, Mr. Kids
The Sequim District Superintendent of Schools does his homework and isn’t shy about assigning it either.
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Brunell: Lawmakers should fund life sciences discovery
Some may remember the infamous Seattle billboard: “Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights?”
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Lawmakers in Olympia grinding it out
If silence is golden, a lot of wealth is stockpiled in the state Capitol, where lawmakers and the…
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Burbank: Perspective on salaries
It’s an ode to cognitive dissonance when pundits come out swinging (rhetorically) against a strong minimum wage or…
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Cooper: Fat chance!
When I was in the fourth grade centuries ago, I would watch the other girls twirl around the…
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Burbank: State makes it easier to save for retirement
When you think about retirement, you can imagine a life in which you are freed from decades of…
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Cooper: Upon reflection …
Like most big cities, New York City buzzes with people rushing to get somewhere. That is if you…
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Brunell: Looking at fossil fuels through a different lens
While protesters were trying to block a Shell oil rig from docking in Elliott Bay, a team of…
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Odds, ends from the editor’s desk — May 20, 2015
Forgive the gross use of cultural exceptionalism, but Sequim rocks. Well, our festivals do, anyway.
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Burbank: The true cost of quality lives
What are the elements of a good quality of life? Good, accessible and affordable health care … being…
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Cooper: Park … where?
I truly intended to write an insightful, even supportive, column about SARC and its board’s current survival strategy…