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Midnight Mutterings | At last, or too good to be true?
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| All of us trying to send less to the landfill have been doing what we can with what we have and what we know. I have a friend
Letter to Editor | Partisanship of SJC County Council is wrong
||| FROM MIKE CARLSON, et. al* ||| Kari McVeigh has sought and received the endorsement of the San Juan County Democratic Party. In doing so, she has demonstrated her newness to San Juan County and
Letter to Editor | Paulsen displays exemplary leadership, commitment to community
||| FROM CHELSIE GUILFORD ||| I am writing to express my wholehearted support for Justin Paulsen’s candidacy for County Council. I have had the privilege of knowing Justin for the past seven years, and during
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Letter to Editor | We should always stick up for our friends, right?
||| FROM ROBERT AUSTIN ||| My wife and I bought our home here in 1998, and we’ve long come to enjoy the charms of living in a small community, with all the unexpected but welcome
Letter to Editor | Kari McVeigh is the leader we need
||| FROM WILLIAM SEVERSON ||| In conversations with Kari McVeigh, I know that she understands the unique challenges that our island communities face. We are a group of islands in the middle of the Salish
Letter to Editor | Justin demonstrates the epitome of what an Islander is
Islanders Registered to vote can vote for any Council Candidate County wide ||| FROM CLARK CUNDY ||| As islanders we all are attempting to put the pandemic behind us and take a look around our
Letter to Editor | Land Bank preserves access to shared natural land
||| FROM MARGARET MILLS ||| A balanced community life for us all in San Juan County depends on two things: preserving and improving our shared access to natural land--forests, mountains and shores--and creating and preserving
Letter to Editor | I’m all in for Kari McVeigh
||| FROM STEPHANIE PRIMA ||| Kari McVeigh has the experience, the skills, and the vision to move our county out of this current 'stuck' position. She fully understands the economic and environmental concerns of full-time
Letter to Editor | Land Bank is successful; let’s not lose it
||| FROM JANE WENTWORTH ||| I am proud to live in a county with a citizen-founded Land Bank. The forward-thinking citizens of San Juan County voted in 1990 to establish the Land Bank real estate
Letter to Editor | We are entitled to hear the whole story about McVeigh
||| FROM DAVID JOHNSON ||| I am compelled to respond to Kari McVeigh’s recent letter to the editor published on July 10, 2024, titled “Kari McVeigh responds to attacks.” While Ms. McVeigh attempts to frame
Guest Opinion | Energy transition, the bigger picture, Part 3 of 3
||| FROM ED SUIJ ||| Richard Heinberg had seven concurrent steps of what we could do. Here are a couple more. If all happened simultaneously we might have a slim chance. Step 1 It is
Letter to Editor | A cascade of management failures
||| FROM MICHAEL RIORDAN, FRED KLEIN, and ROBERT AUSTIN ||| On Saturday EWUA members received yet another in a long chain of email letters purportedly written by Board President Teri Nigretto, claiming to absolve General
Editorial & Adrift | Another beautiful day on Orcas Island
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| It's just another beautiful day on Orcas Island. The sky is clouded over and we probably, once again, will not see the aurora over our heads tonight. If
Guest Opinion | Energy transition, the bigger picture, Part 2 of 3
||| FROM ED SUIJ ||| Before we continue with Part 2, here is some added information that is useful when we talk about the lifespan of solar panels. The energy payback of solar panels is
