Opinion
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…
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Rail the way to go
Proving that last summer's opening of Central Link was merely the beginning of a new era, Sound Transit…
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Military tests online voting
If necessity is the mother of invention, then the military helped raise one of her biggest children.
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Climate skeptics missing the point
This week negotiators from around the world are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark to hammer out an agreement to…
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Transportation decision a sign of sanity
There may be some sanity in politics after all. A provision by Sen. Patty Murray may let UW,…
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Liability reform the key to health care costs
As the debate in the United States Congress continues over needed health care reform, much of the conversation…
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Back room deal a good deed
In many ways the groundbreaking marked an ending, the culmination of many years of wrangling and negotiating between…
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Thanksgiving
I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving break. My wife and I spent the holiday in Georgia,…
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911 fix needs IT tax solution
For tech-savvy residents in Issaquah and Sammamish, Internet communication technologies like texting, video conferencing and camera phones are…
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Council must listen to new ideas to solve transportation issues
With the council elections behind us it is a good time for all the citizens to review the…
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Blinkers on, and that ain’t good
For someone whose estimations of the future of humankind fluctuate wildly from forlorn and despairing to proud and…