We should be ashamed that we have not been paying enough taxes!
The school bonds should be time-phased according to need and project priority.
Several people have commented on funding a program in the Sequim public schools. While I would support what I’ve seen in the papers, we should note that we taxpayers are enabled to fund or reject a proposal affecting our public schools.
Sometimes there is a clear choice and this year the bond request is one such decision. $154 million is a big number.
Wait a minute. Time out. It seems that this spending spree being proposed for the schools and library is way out of hand. Pretty soon here we are going to be talking big money.
I feel it is our fundamental duty to support our local school district by voting for the bond.
The note about the passing of Tom Foley, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,makes this claim: “… Republicans seized control of Congress in 1994.” Was this an armed insurrection?
I read with interest the two articles on the Olympic Medical Center Foundation and what I can say is it should be a lesson to all of those who “manage” nonprofit, charitable or religious organizations.
And I quote, Feb. 5, Page 5: “Ten acres of a proposed 127-acre single family housing project (read slum) could go to the Sequim School District …” Now you see the need for the $15 million city hall/jail! Front page, School eyes $154 million bond vote.
Once again, we wish to thank the following merchants for their generosity and Christmas Spirit in donating (on Christmas Eve day) about 125 poinsettias and Christmas plants for Port Angeles and Sequim nursing homes, Olympic Medical Center and several assisted living facilities.
Did anyone think, “You have to be kidding” when they read on page A-14 of the Dec. 4, 2013, Gazette about the New Wildlife Plan by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge?
The Republican agenda does not have the votes in Congress to succeed yet they are allowed to filibuster. Are we only a nation of Fox News watchers?
WOW, a year’s worth of celebrating Sequim’s Centennial!
