According to London’s Financial Times, European manufacturers are bypassing China and Asia and looking to the southern U.S. states to build new plants that provide thousands of family-wage jobs.
Reasons for moving from our home of 46 years started popping up 10 or 15 years ago. First was the lawn. A good part of our 23,000-square-foot lot is grass that grows with a vengeance before we want to be away having fun. Looking back, the days when we were free of obligations were the same days the lawn was dry enough to mow. The moral is: Man is not born to be shackled to a lawnmower.
On Sept. 11, communities across the nation — including Arlington, Marysville and Everett — will be holding observances to honor those who died in the terrorist attack seven years ago.
Since 9/11, there have been many changes in this country, not the least of which has been severe undercutting of funds desperately needed to protect and restore our rivers, marine waters and the many habitats that sustain fish, wildlife and our own future well-being. There’s also developed a wider divide between people from different walks of life.
The Marysville Globe and Arlington Times are looking for a local editorial cartoonist interested in adding their thoughts to our community dialogue.
Thousands of local children return to school this week as classes begin in the Arlington, Marysville and Lakewood school districts. And as they return to school, we can expect an increase in vehicular and pedestrian traffic in our communities meaning students, their parents and community members will need to remember a few basic tips to ensure our children are safe.
It’s been a tough year for the high priests of global warming in the U.S. First, NASA had to correct its earlier claim that the hottest year on record in the contiguous U.S. had been 1998, which seemed to prove that global warming was on the march. It was actually 1934. Then it turned out the world’s oceans have been growing steadily cooler, not hotter, since 2003. Meanwhile, the winter of 2007 was the coldest in the U.S. in decades, after Al Gore warned us that we were about to see the end of winter as we know it.
The parking lot was jammed, every computer station was taken. Only at one table was there room for my stuff. That wasn’t unusual at Marysville’s public library where a high-decibel toddler was testing his lungs while momma checked out a small mountain of kiddy-literature. Good for her. I’m sure she was hoping her child wouldn’t scream and listen to stories at the same time.
Voters will have the opportunity in the May 15 special election to ensure the communities in north Snohomish County have access to comprehensive healthcare in a facility capable of meeting the current and future needs of the people it serves.
With the start of 2008 less than a week away, many people will be attending parties to ring in the New Year. And while we celebrate the passing of another year, we should not forget that the holiday season can be one of the most deadly times of the year due to the mixing of drinking and driving.
It did irritate me, I must admit, that Barbra Streisand was awarded Frances Legion of Honor medal on the same day one was being pinned on the chest of our own John D. Bud Hawk of Bremerton, June 28.
The explosions began a full week before the 4th of July. A staccato crackle of ladyfingers and boom of illegal…
After years of continued accidents, purported fixes, studies and not-so-gentle prodding by concerned citizens and some elected officials, the Washington State Department of Transportation is taking the advice of an independent consultant and will install a concrete barrier along a 10-mile stretch of I-5 near Marysville and Arlington.
