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The state has too much money and it’s a problem
With revenues rising, budget writers are going to get lots of requests on how to spend it
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Words of wisdom from a dance teacher
AT ESALEN, ONE of Earth’s most glorious spots perched on California’s Big Sur Coast, we sat wearing long…
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PAT NEAL: Co-managed to extinction
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The WDFW, aka the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife,…
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JERRY CORNFIELD: On car taxes, Sound Transit says it gets it, but does it?
Lawmakers and transit agency leaders are still far apart on how to reduce the cost of those tabs.
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POINT OF VIEW: Vote YES on levy for the love of Port Angeles
SITTING ON THE table is $18.4 million in already collected state taxpayer funds available to be spent on…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Forging ahead with beans and bars
I SLIDE OPEN the door and enter the sanctuary. A fragrance says buenos dias: a scent from Ecuador.…
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POINT OF VIEW: Vote ‘no’ on PASD levy
COMMON SENSE, CONCERN for our entire community’s welfare and frugality guide our opposition to Port Angeles School District’s…
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JERRY CORNFIELD: What lawmakers want to do isn’t always what needs to be done
They’ve introduced 1,341 bills. It’s time they started focusing on the ones that matter most.
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POINT OF VIEW: Vote YES on PASD levy
Our Port Angeles community is generous and spirited. I’ve asked myself again, why we are not investing in…
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PAT NEAL: A decade of disaster
BY NOW WE are all fed up with know-it-all newspaper columnists telling us what the most important events…
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Jefferson County a ‘daycare desert’
THREE BABIES ATTENDED the first meeting of Jefferson Healthcare’s task force on child care.
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EDC resolutions for 2020
IT’S JANUARY, THE time of reflections on the past and promises for the future.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Revisiting ‘The Last Wilderness’
“IT WAS RAINING, of course … Wind from the south, strong and steady and cold, fanned across the…
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PAT NEAL: The royal visit
IT’S BEEN ANOTHER tough week in the news with the recurring snowmaggedon, the heartbreaking Seahawks playoff loss to…
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PAT NEAL: Rainforest expedition
IT WAS A dark and stormy night. Inside the cabin, the wood stove glowed red with venison stew…
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