Did you notice the change in last weeks issue of The Marysville Globe and The Arlington Times? It wasnt a big change so you might have missed it.
by Don C. Brunell
by Sheldon Richman
Now that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has editorially asked President Bush and Vice President Cheney to promise not to accept any profit from war in retirement, Im waiting for it to do the same with former Vice President Gore in his new status as a partner in a venture capital firm that finances alternative energy start-up companies.
Our first week of carrier-delivered newspapers for the Marysville Globe and Arlington Times is now in the history books. As with any gigantic change in tradition and way of doing business we had some glitches. But one of the most amazing things that everyone here encountered were the number of people who are currently avid readers of the newspapers and have been for many years. Frankly, we were overwhelmed by the number of pleasant and helpful calls from both our body of regular readers and many new ones.
by Cristina Page
by Bill Blake
It is only the faces that identify one TV channels news from another. The sameness isnt so much that they all draw from the same well, but that they speak the same sound-bites. Once the rhetoric is set in DC press conferences, TV anchors parrot them. Weapons of Mass Destruction. War on Terror. Surge. Certainly there is frightening substance behind such terms, but does that explain our being beaten over the head with them so often?
From out of the smoke of the fires and the blood of the murdered Warsaw ghetto, we imprisoned in the ghetto send you our heartful fraternal greetings. We know that you watch with pain and compassionate tears, with admiration and alarm, the outcome of this war, which we have been waging for many days with the cruel occupant. Let it be known that every threshold in the ghetto has been and will continue to be a fortress, that we may all perish in this struggle, but we will not surrender: that, like you, we breathe with a desire for revenge of the crimes of our common foe. A battle is being waged for your freedom as well as ours. For you and our human, civic, and national honor and dignity.
Adele Ferguson
by Don C. Brunell
As per my custom, here are some of my favorite news stories in 2007. Also as usual, they are mostly about animals. I cant help that. I am an animal lover.
by Don C. Brunell
