I must respond to If you cant do the time, dont do the crime. Well, the incarcerated can do and are doing the time some 2.2 million of them in this country. I contend that the time should fit the crime, per our Bill of Rights, which states that cruel and unusual punishment should not be. Non-violent crimes are depicted as those where no weapons are involved and where no injuries are incurred.
Theres still no crosswalk in front of M-PHS? I cant believe that after a boy got hit by a bus and received a major settlement for getting hit there is still no crosswalk or anything in front of the high school.
Hillary Clinton wants to force everyone all people in the country to pay for health care insurance, especially those who need it the least. The less you use it, the more you help pay for everyone else.
Ive been working with Tom Greene for Sheriff for more than a year now. Ive found that hes the only candidate that actually has the ability, knowledge and credentials to step into the Sheriffs Office on day one and start work.
Do we really need another motocross track in Washington state? A five-minute Internet search brought to my attention that there are currently over 14 official motocross racing facilities and over 30 designated MX/ORV trails or parks in our fair state.
The Marysville Strawberry Festival would like to thank the Marysville Parks Department for the great job they did on the Merrysville for the Holidays parade. We would especially like to thank the hearty souls that came out to watch the parade. We were astounded at the amount of people that attended the parade. With the cold and snow and sleet that we experienced during the time we were waiting for the parade to start, we expected only a few people along the route.
A public media article of 11/29/07 started with the quotation U.S. fourth graders have lost ground in reading ability compared with kids around the world Let this be the epitath to the political careers of public school educrats and school board members.
Happy Holidays, Winter Celebration and Spirit of the Holidays giving programs are politically correct sayings for corporations, governments, civic organizations and schools attempting to eliminate the words, Merry Christmas. The organizations painfully strive to be so inclusive, yet, they are taking away from the actual reason for the celebration and holiday, Christmas.
As a staff member at Archbishop Murphy High School, I feel compelled to respond to three claims in a recent sports opinion article (Football Karma? Nov. 28).
Punitive laws often remain on the books long after their usefulness. The 3-Strikes laws are a case in point if, in fact, they were ever useful. Some 22 states that had adopted them have since changed them when they realized the injustices and the extreme expense connected to them.
I support Dennis Kucinich for President because he is the only candidate in either party with a plan for universal, single-payer, not-for-profit health care that will protect all Americans. And it will be cheaper and better than the crazy system weve got today.
I am absolutely thrilled with the Marysville Globe and Arlington Times taking the progressive step of delivering their excellent newspapers free to our community. I am a long-time Marysville resident, mother, grandmother, public school teacher and community activist and have long appreciated the excellent news coverage of the papers as well as their dedication to community building. I was gratified to read Bob Graefs excellent and tolerant piece on the Ruckus over Illegal Immigrants and was so excited that it would be read by many more people because of this bold move for free subscriptions by our home-town newspapers.
It was gratifying to see the plight of the widows in Burundi and how members of Curves in Arlington were able to provide housing for the widow Asenata. But the rest of the story is even more exciting. By the time we were done with our Christmas campaign, most of the club membership had contributed to the purchase of two homes and two individual members had purchased houses all by themselves. This totaled four homes built and two widows supported and all funds went directly to the widows, with nothing withheld for administration costs.
