Those in support of physician-assisted suicide argue that by providing lethal medication they are showing compassion to the terminally ill. Yet when offered the choice of death, patients, instead of feeling less pain or fear, actually had increased feelings of anxiety, pain and worthlessness.
The Sept. 17 edition of The Times published a letter from a reader bemoaning the fact that someone dared to criticize Obama, the media’s messianic candidate, during the Republican convention. The author declared that she had had enough of the “shooting from the hip” by the opposition. Well there’s plenty that the rest of us have had enough of.
ARLINGTON — There’s a run on pink hair around Arlington, but it’s not related to pink eye. Pink hair is not a disease, but it can help fight cancer in the long run, according to Chris Elliott from Studio 5 Hair Salon.
The Arlington School District is conducting its “Bus Ridership Week” Sept. 29-Oct. 3, and is asking that all children who will ride an Arlington school bus at any time during the school year make sure that they ride the bus this week.
Police are looking for help in nabbing the suspect who attempted to lure two girls, both 13, into his SUV on Sept. 13.
The Marysville Globe and Arlington Times have published their annual Fall Health, Beauty and Fitness Special Section.
MARYSVILLE — The state board charged with finding a location for a possible new branch campus of the University of Washington has hired a sort of mediator to help resolve what became an impasse over the location question.
I mean, all they do is waste their lives and money by buying spray cans and masks and eventually they get caught and get arrested and have to do service hours cleaning it up.
I think we should have school uniforms because some kids have very immodest and annoying taste. They give the wrong impressions, you think they are immodest, bad people but they’re nice and okay to hang out with.
I think that the school district should teach math, science, language, arts and social studies with video games. I know that each boy in my class plays video games.
My mother is a teacher and she works so hard, she sometimes is up all night doing things for her job. She puts up with all of the kids in her classroom every day. And for what? A lousy pay that she deserves more of.
Liz Loomis was a student of mine many years ago when she was a teenager. She was officially in my French classes, but I also tutored her unofficially in Russian. I remember her clearly as extremely bright, completely self-motivated and thoroughly conscientious. And she also had a lively sense of humor.
