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Guest column: Help keep our students safe, be alert around school buses

The Sequim School District transports more than 800 of our children on a daily basis on bus routes.…

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Guest opinion: Sunshine necessary to restore trust in government

March 13-19 marks “Sunshine Week,” an annual event highlighting the importance of open government — from city hall…

Don Brunell

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Guest Opinion: Ireland is clean, greener and reopening

When St. Patrick’s Day rolls around (March 17), the Irish have lots to celebrate. Ireland is still clean…

Don Brunell

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Guest Opinion: Ukraine boxers’ patriotism bring hope

It’s not often that we see an athlete at the top of his (her) game walk away from…

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Guest column: Raising awareness, one painted rock at a time

Since 1987, when a pen stroke by President Ronald Reagan proclaimed March as National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month,…

Bertha Cooper

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The tyranny of certainty, Part I

I sure hope the predictions are right that COVID-19 and all its relatives will move on from being…

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From the Back Nine: Loneliness

I see this horse every other Wednesday when I’m on my way to my writer’s critique group. He…

Kris Johnson is president of the Association of Washington Business, the state’s chamber of commerce and manufacturers association.

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Guest opinion: There’s never been a better time to provide tax relief

The mountain of money keeps getting bigger. In mid-February, state officials released the latest economic forecast and it…

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Being Frank: The measuring stick of our survival

My mentor Billy Frank Jr. always said salmon are the measuring stick of our survival.

Don Brunell

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Guest opinion: State needs inclusive healthy forest policy

Washington state’s Board of Natural Resources is considering banning timber harvesting on state lands. That is extremely unwise.…

Bertha Cooper

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Think About It: All roads lead to Sequim

My husband and I had the good fortune to spend a week in a remote small French village…

Crystal Linn

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Aging Successfully: Relationships and longevity

As you know, February is the month when we celebrate Valentine’s Day, acknowledging the loving relationships in our…

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Guest Opinion: 2050 probably won’t be as terrible, wonderful or as different as we imagine

We are in fact, closer to 2050 than 1990. And getting further from 1990 and closer to 2050…