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Environment: Public transit | The Seattle Times
Re: “State ferries: Integrate with public ground transport” [Nov. 26, Northwest Voices]: I take advantage of and recognize the state ferry system and couldn’t agree extra with the letter encouraging the Washington State Division of Transportation and public transit officers to raised coordinate schedules and connections between ferries and public floor transit. Even connections between buses and Sounder trains typically…
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Environment: Canceled timber sale | The Seattle Times
Re: “State to conserve 2,000 acres of forest, cancel timber sale along Elwha” [Dec. 19, Northwest]: Nice information that some income from the Local weather Dedication Act carbon auctions can be utilized to stop logging of forests which can be essential for salmon habitat. The income will likely be used to purchase alternative forests for logging in much less habitat-sensitive…
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Historic quilts: Family memories | The Seattle Times
Re: “Threads of life” [Dec. 10, Opinion]: Thanks to Carlton Winfrey for his very fascinating column. It jogs my memory of my mom, grandmother, aunts and pals who gathered in one another’s properties so many occasions for “quilting bees”! Carol Wilde, Bellevue Letters editor If you want to share your ideas about this letter or on different points, submit a…
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High-potency cannabis: ‘Wake up’ | The Seattle Times
Re: “The collateral damage of high-potency cannabis” [Dec. 17, Opinion]: Thanks to Alex Fryer for exposing the THC-induced psychosis only a few persons are discussing. Washington is making an excessive amount of cash from authorized marijuana gross sales to cease this freight prepare of THC-induced schizophrenia. I do know medical doctors and psychiatrists who’ve informed me for years about teenagers…
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Vehicle testing: Gender equity | The Seattle Times
We’re writing to thank U.S. Sen. Patty Murray for her dedication to enhancing automobile security requirements for ladies. Many individuals don’t know this, however our vehicles are solely crash-tested with male our bodies in thoughts. That’s proper: Crash checks are solely required to make use of dummies formed like males, and due to bodily variations, this causes ladies, youngsters and…
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Seattle City Council’s cease-fire resolution is worthy of support
As a neighborhood Jewish chaplain, I’ve been heartbroken by the brutal Oct. 7 assault and Israel’s devastating retaliation since then. As a former member of the Jewish Group Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Larger Seattle, I’ve additionally been disillusioned by the ethical failure of many Jewish establishments and neighborhood leaders to name for a cease-fire, even because the…
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Travel woes: ‘Stay home!’ | The Seattle Times
Re: “Author visiting Seattle explains ‘Why Flying Is Miserable’ ” [Nov. 28, Travel]: As an alternative of “fixing” flying because the writer of “Why Flying Is Depressing: And Tips on how to Repair It” describes, there’s a greater approach: Keep house! Vacationers can discover options to in-person conferences, corresponding to Zoom and FaceTime calls. Slightly than birding in New England, take…
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Homelessness: Accountability | The Seattle Times
Re: “Without the right leader, King County’s homelessness crisis will not subside” [Dec. 11, Opinion]: In your editorial concerning the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, you talked about maybe essentially the most important drawback plaguing not solely the RHA however Seattle authorities on the whole. You famous that the RHA, whose CEO, Marc Dones, resigned in Could, will full the…
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Israel-Hamas war: Valuable perspective | The Seattle Times
Re: “A Jewish, Japanese American perspective on Gaza” [Dec. 11, Local News]: Thanks for Naomi Ishisaka’s column that references Maggie Tokuda-Corridor’s essay for the Japanese American historical past preservation group Densho, titled “Justifying the Unjustifiable: Why Japanese People Should Stand with Palestine.” Tokuda-Corridor’s perspective may be very helpful and the analogy she attracts is so correct. Realizing that clear and…
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Dr. Abe Bergman treated Seattle and the nation
Youngsters throughout Washington and all through America are safer and more healthy due to the late Dr. Abraham “Abe” Bergman. He mixed the science of pediatric medication with the artwork of political medication. The Seattle native and longtime resident handled native kids and households at what’s now Seattle Youngsters’s Hospital and later at Harborview Medical Heart. He additionally was professor…
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