In 2001 the Marysville City Council voted 4-3 against a proposal to ban the discharge of fireworks within city limits saying that the issue could be addressed through enforcement and education. But six years later, it seems little progress has been made to abate the illegal use of fireworks a problem that affects all of north Snohomish County.
When I started writing this column in 1965, state legislators were paid $3,600 a year.
by Don C. Brunell
by Sheldon Richman
by Lee Hamilton
If youre like me, every time you cross a bridge since the Minneapolis disaster, you breathe a sigh of relief when you make it to the other side.
Some people welcome change with open arms while others dread it like a pending apocalypse. I would be the first to admit that, even if it were a voluntary change, I would fall in the group that dreads change rather than in the group that welcomes it.
by Don C. Brunell
by Elan Journo
The Japanese didnt fare too well as fellow human beings in the television recounting of World War II by historian Ken Burns, but I have another story sent me by an old friend I wrote of recently concerning how he got the budget passed when he was a legislator in Olympia.
My dictionary says, shame, a painful feeling of having done something wrong or improper. Disgraced. Down the page is a related definition, shameless. Without shame. Not modest, brazen.
Destroying nearly 2,000 homes and businesses, and forcing the mandatory evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, the recent California wildfires have captured the attention of people across the nation.
Looking back at 2006, we take great satisfaction in the fact that The Arlington Times and Marysville Globe were named the top two newspapers in their circulation group by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association and that staff members brought home nearly two dozen awards in the WNPAs annual better newspaper contest.
