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Sticks and stones

Ed - In January of this year, 15 year-old Massachusetts school girl Phoebe Prince committed suicide after months…

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Health care wrangle raises important questions

The furor over the national National Health Care Reform Act has got to stop. Next-to-nothing has been implemented…

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Let the buyer beware

Next time you are headed to Fred Meyer or Target or QFC, for bicycle or a new CD…

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Now that the smoke(screen) has cleared…

After a year of fierce debate and wrangling, Congress has finally done something that many of the people…

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Logging in, dropping out

So if we can assume that what people gain is the ability to communicate small pieces of information…

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Bring on the senate challengers, please

For much of our state’s recent political history, colorful and exciting top-of-the-ticket races have been a staple of…

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Participate in census count – coming soon

Over the last few days, each Issaquah and Sammamish residence should have received a census form in the…

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Tax on sweets a healthy choice

Candy isn’t food and it doesn’t provide nutrition. Washington lawmakers should eliminate the sales tax exemption and return…

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Raise my taxes, please

President Obama has made it clear that he wants to erase the Bush-era tax cuts for the highest…

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For those about to rock, I salute you

There is something that the riotous and disorderly and passionate expression of music, and art too for that…

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Our children are being left behind

Washington State is failing its children. Not a campaign slogan, not a political statement, not a platitude, this…

An Issaquah Highlands streetcar would link residential areas with the High Street retail core

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Transit solution the key in Highlands

No one doubts the frustration among Issaquah Highlands residents. Commercial and retail developments are long overdue for those…

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Our Walden

Sunday morning in Beaver Lake Park, a gentle rain falling, silence, the smell of rain and earth. What…

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Taxes the only noble solution, but state lacks political courage

The only way we can save vital services like the Basic Health Plan from destruction is to raise…

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Cutting worker training is a budget backfire

It’s quite a different story this time around. In the past I have told you how community college…

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We all benefit from good schools

According to Business week, Americans look at safety, affordability, and most of all – high quality schools. Families…

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Why we should support levies

Yes, we all realize the importance of education for our children, our community, our businesses and our society.

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Charity begins

I think homelessness is an issue that overwhelms some people, that it freezes them.

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Students offer lessons we can believe in

In this season of caring and hope, I would like to share the moving story of two young…

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Hassle-free travel good, and getting better

Proving that last summer’s opening of Central Link was merely the beginning of a new era, Sound Transit…