by Don C. Brunell
Will wonders never cease? Can it possibly be true in this blue blue state out here on the Left Coast that most of the daily newspapers have forsaken their endorsement of all things Gregoire to proclaim that Queen Christines proposed budget for 2007-2009 is too high?
On town meetings and colleges
by David E. Johnson
by Don C. Brunell
OLYMPIA A vigilant Olympia man went to great lengths to recover his stolen 35- foot speed boat, chartering a plane to scour highways in Jefferson and Mason counties.
It is 1,842 miles from Marysville or Arlington to Des Moines, the capitol of Iowa. Thats a far distance for events there to determine who we might be voting for, but thats the way our system works. With nearly a year until the polls open, it did seem a bit excessive for the media to be assigning so much weight to one states primary results.
Lakewood voters will have the opportunity to show their support for local schools Feb. 19 when two proposed levies will appear on the ballot.
No familiar, long white envelope came to me in my mailbox to inform me of the death of Lolly Durkan, like those I received from the Legislature when over a dozen of my friends from legislative days passed in the last year.
The Rotary Club of Marysville is probably best known for its annual Pumpkins for Literacy Patch which raises funds to promote literacy in local schools and which funded the recent distribution of dictionaries to approximately 1,200 third-graders in the areas 10 elementary schools.
by Don C. Brunell
Before Andrew Carnegies philanthropy, before the turn of the twentieth century, public libraries were a rarity. Large collections of books were for the wealthy, for the intellectual elite, and definitely not for commoners.
by Billy Frank Jr.
