I am writing to encourage all voters to restore our previously authorized Emergency Medical Services Levy back to its original rate of 50 cents per thousand dollars of assessed property valuation. This is a necessary action for Marysville and District 12 to be able to continue to respond to the needs of its citizenry.
You have to hand it to anyone who is brave enough and willing to throw their lives into the political arena. In the case of the state senator position for District 10, two women have joined a race against senior senator Mary Margaret Haugen. While District 10 comprises a small share of our readership, i.e. west of I-5 strip from Skagit County to northern Marysville, some of us do have the opportunity to vote in that race.
One of the things that the three candidates for Snohomish County Superior Court, Position 6, all agreed upon, July 24, when meeting with the editorial board of The Marysville Globe and Arlington Times, was that whomever was elected to the position would have to face a number of very difficult decisions when adjudicating the cases which come before them.
Over the years, more and more of the meat Washington residents consume is traveling further and further to reach our plates.
In light of the recent resignation of the promotions coordinator for the Byrnes Performing Arts Center — Arlington’s community theater located at Arlington High School — Arlington city officials will soon be meeting with school district representatives and hopefully the BPAC Advisory Commission (of which I am a member) to review the management structure of our community theater.
Breaking from recent tradition, The Marysville Globe and Arlington Times will be making endorsements in the upcoming elections.
Mr. Kundu’s May 22 editorial certainly caught the attention of global warming disbelievers. Mr. Van Ginhoven and Mr. Reid were quick to challenge his position, claiming that scientists were far from unified in agreeing that global warming stems from human activity. But citing some number of scientists that supposedly disagree is like war-time body-counts that sidetrack the reasons behind conflicts. Dwelling on how many voices stand for or against global warming obscures the actual issue.
Recent calls for the opening of our off-shore areas for oil exploration are misguided, irresponsible and even unpatriotic. The most obvious reason is that the very act of increasing our dependency on more drilling — whether offshore or inland — simply serves to continue our dependency on a finite, greenhouse gas producing commodity that harms the environment and further distracts from the pursuit of any new, innovative alternatives that would strengthen true sustainability, energy security and independence. More drilling represents an illogical and regressive approach to one of the most profound problems we, as a global society, now face.
Summertime festivals are a wonderful way to showcase all the great things happening in a community and Arlington took full advantage of that this past weekend when it played host to the annual Arlington Fly-In and celebrated the Street Fair on the revamped Olympic Avenue.
Let me say that I was extremely impressed with the depth of the argument in opposition to nuclear energy as posed in the July 9 Arlington Times by the PUD Essay winner, Leah Rensel. It’s very encouraging to those in my generation to know that those in the following generations are looking at energy alternatives available to the world in the coming years. Ms. Rensel stated her position very well, however, as is often the case with issues, there are two sides which need to be considered and I would like to respond with another position.
The United States has been burning coal for years and is currently burning it like never before. It’s unrenewable and harmful qualities have been overlooked in our hunger to reach our growing energy demands. Today, 56 percent of the United State’s energy is produced by coal fired plants (Lester, 1998). As a result, the United States is the world’s largest CO2 emitter (Seattle Times, 2007) and produces two billion tons of carbon dioxide per year (Schirber, 2007).
The recent decision by Arlington city officials and elected officials to place the issue of the early termination of Police Chief John Gray’s employment with city in the Consent Agenda portion of the City Council’s July 7 meeting had me wondering what is the definition of “Routine”?
I’m looking for 100 reasons to celebrate the Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber marks its 100-year anniversary in 2008 and this calls for a celebration.
