After spending a couple of days last week in Washington, D.C., I wonder how Congress and President Obama will settle their differences without hurting the taxpayers or crippling our struggling economy.
A small critter is causing big problems in the South Puget Sound. It’s called the Mazama pocket gopher.
Each summer for the past 38 years, students and adult leaders from across our state have gathered at university campuses for week-long free enterprise “boot camps” called Business Week. The week has a magical quality that transforms the lives of both the students and the adults who mentor them.
It’s hard to believe there are starving people in the world when Americans shop in well-stocked supermarkets and dine out at any of our 618,000 restaurants. But the U.N. estimates that nearly 870 million poor people in developing nations suffer from chronic malnutrition. Its children’s agency, UNICEF, reports that one of every 15 children in those countries will die before the age of five.
There’s an old saying that oil and water don’t mix. That may be true, but apparently they coexist quite well.
