Opinion
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Some notes on hope in the new year
Earlier this fall, I attended a Seattle Arts & Lectures occasion round Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead,” winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In gentle of the e-book’s resilient fundamental character — ensnared in rural poverty, dependancy, and traumatic loss — the subject of hope got here up loads throughout the night studying and Q&A with Kingsolver. She provided…
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Welcome, new Seattle City Council — now get focused on the details
By the point you learn this, many Seattle Metropolis Council members can have already taken their oath of workplace in a non-public ceremony that permits lawmakers to imagine duty on the stroke of midnight Jan. 1. There’s cause for Seattleites to be optimistic concerning the metropolis’s new management. The nine-member council now consists of two veterans (Bob Kettle and Rob…
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Bird names should be about birds, not people
During the last month, a change.org petition has been making the rounds calling for the American Ornithological Society to halt its recently announced commitment to alter all English-language names of birds inside its geographic jurisdiction which can be named for individuals, beginning within the U.S. and Canada. By early December, there have been virtually 900 supporters. The language within the…
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5 big political questions for 2024
The political stakes couldn’t be larger within the coming 12 months, with each the presidency and management of Congress up within the air. And the courts might be concerned greater than ordinary, with former President Donald Trump underneath 4 separate indictments, not less than a few of which may head to trial in 2024. If that isn’t sufficient, the Supreme…
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Second airport: ‘McChord is an underutilized gem’
As a retired Air Drive Reserve officer, I strongly assist using McChord Subject at Joint Base Lewis-McChord as the subsequent airport. Have a look at all the benefits, together with proximity to the metropolitan heart and Interstate 5, and a big airport space. The disadvantages, akin to getting U.S. authorities approval and crowded flight paths, can virtually definitely be solved.…
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Cal Anderson Park: ‘Garden’ removal right decision
Re: “City removes Capitol Hill community garden” [Dec. 28, Northwest]: The removing of the “backyard” was the right resolution. For all those that signed the petition to permit it to stay, please go to the Beacon Meals Forest in Beacon Hill and direct your energies to constructive help for what it advocates. Rigorously reread your complete Seattle Instances article and…
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Seattle’s pedestrian-first culture doesn’t always mean safety
I’m strolling by the neighborhood, attempting to get eyes on a flighty hummingbird, once I attain the nook. A automobile rolls up. Uncertain of which manner I wish to go, I wave the driving force on. He waves me on. Not eager to confuse him by disappearing from view, I resentfully jog throughout the road. He drives on, self-satisfied. However…
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Climate Commitment Act: ‘Improve and protect’
Re: “WA’s cap-and-trade system may go up in smoke without reforms” [Nov. 26, Editorials]: The Seattle Occasions editorial board depicts a future the place civilization-shattering local weather change meets a helpless U.S. authorities. They appropriately state that “Washington’s cap-and-invest system would change into a bulwark” on this situation. Fortunately, state Reps. April Connors, R-Kennewick, and Mary Dye, R-Pomeroy, have filed…
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Future Fund: Lift state’s children out of poverty
Re: “Lawmakers to vote on program for low-income babies” [Dec. 27, Northwest]: On the primary day of Christmas Washington state gave to me: a break within the cycle of poverty. Sure, that’s my dearest want this Christmas season, and hopefully it’s the want of all Washingtonians that the 47% of our folks in want could have the means to set…
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Job losses follow proposal to boost pay for incarcerated people in WA
Proper across the holidays, the Washington Division of Corrections is doubling the wages of among the prisoners who scrub loos and clear flooring on the Washington Corrections Middle in Shelton. Sound beneficiant? Provided that we ignore the truth that the DOC can be eliminating about half of these jobs. Half as many males will likely be employed, and people who…
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