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As the Paradigm Shifts | Can you know how awesome you are?
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| For most of us, the world we live in doesn't support us knowing how great we are. It doesn't support us being fearless, abundant and extraordinary.
Letter to Editor | OIFR is adding another position while threatening layoffs
||| FROM PATRICK SHEPLER ||| How, in good conscience, can the Board of Fire Commissioners approve another new Admin. position, while simultaneously threatening layoffs of the most tenured actual responders? And how can they add another
Letter to Editor | Is it time to consider viable options to our ferry service?
||| FROM KEN WOOD ||| We will not solve our (ferry) problems with the same thinking that created them. Perhaps we should at least consider other options than boats? What about the Airlander? THIS is
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 | The bad soap opera at OIFR continues
||| FROM GREG AYERS ||| Wow, OIFR is a bad soap opera, and they are spending OUR money to make it. You just gotta scratch your head. Only these commissioners can successfully, and repeatedly “snatch
Full Moon Tarot | Magic, boredom, and harmony
||| FULL MOON TAROT by NIK SCHULZ ||| Alignment with the magic of nature gives way to feelings that nothing else measures up. In the end though we learn to work with both experiences. Queen
Letter to Editor | No new ferries any time soon?
||| FROM DAVID TURNOY ||| The governor and legislature are quite aware of the need for new ferries, and accordingly money has been budgeted for this. The goal is to produce new ferries that greatly
Midnight Mutterings | Bullies
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| I’ve been been reading the recent words of Michael Luttig and Laurence Tribe, and thinking about a time decades ago when I was in graduate school in California.
Letter to Editor | No new ferries anytime soon?
||| FROM DAVID TURNOY ||| The governor and legislature are quite aware of the need for new ferries, and accordingly money has been budgeted for this. The goal is to produce new ferries that greatly
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 | Very embarrassed person who opened his mouth without the facts
||| FROM JOHN ERLY ||| I have been very vocal about letting the new Fire Commissioners choice the next Chief. What I didn’t know was that in 2021, the board interviewed numerous candidates for the
Letter to Editor | Orcas Island Booster Club thanks Drs. Fleming, Russell, Buxbaum
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND BOOSTER CLUB ||| For two hours on August 13th Drs. Fleming, Russell, and Buxbaum offered their skills and expertise to help Orcas student-athletes become eligible by offering a free sports physical
Letter to Editor | I find the Fire Department union’s stance revolting
||| FROM GREG AYERS ||| Does Local 3911 IAFF union really represent all its OIFR members? Based on what I heard on Monday during the public comment period, I strongly believe the answer is an
As the Paradigm Shifts | There’s plenty I can do—regardless of the outcome
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| No one wants to talk about what it’s like being them—especially when we feel powerless, helpless and hopeless. My client, Miranda, said to me the other
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.