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Letter to Editor | Time for ranked-choice voting in San Juan County
||| FROM LEARNER LIMBACH ||| Have you ever looked at your choices on a ballot and thought, “I’m just not excited about any of these?” I have, and I’m tired of being coerced into voting for
Climate Eyes | Taking an inventory of where we are in this climate crisis
||| CLIMATE EYES BY STEVE BERNHEIM ||| “How can we work with the Comprehensive Plan … to create a culture that lives harmoniously with … Nature?” Last week twenty local residents hooked up on a
Letter to Editor | There are some amazing, devoted, dedicated folks holding our schools together during this pandemic
Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week is May 3 - 7 ||| FROM LINDA SHERIDAN ||| Dear Teachers, Staff, and Administrators, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for all of the hard work
Guest Opinion | Inside the GOP gerrymander for 2022
||| FROM HEDRICK SMITH, RECLAIM THE AMERICAN DREAM ||| Washington – Republicans are rejoicing and Democrats are dismayed that population losses in the Rust Belt and gains in the Sun Belt, recorded by the 2020
Midnight Mutterings | A (?) murder of crows
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Recently, still taking a break from voter suppression, I threatened to tell one or two crow stories and now here is the first. Would love to hear your
Letter to Editor | A heartfelt thanks for passing this school levy
||| FROM ERIC WEBB for ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOLS ||| I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the Orcas Island Community for your overwhelming support of our Technology Capital Projects Levy. You have
Guest Opinion | If not now, when? What COVID-19 teaches us about the future of tourism
||| FROM AMY NESLER for SAN JUANS VISITORS BUREAU ||| Since May 2 - 8 is National Travel and Tourism Week, this is the perfect opportunity to restart the dialogue about the future of the
Letter to Editor | School levy will support more than just repair, replacement of equipment
||| FROM LINDA SHERIDAN, ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT ||| Please Vote! The School Board members of the Orcas Island School District unanimously voted to place a Capital Projects and Technology Levy on the ballot
Letter to Editor | I have questions before I can vote for school levy
||| FROM BEA VON TOBEL ||| In order to help me decide how to vote on the levy, I have the following questions: What does OISD project as the annual funds to be made available
Letter to Editor | Now is the time for School District to think in imaginative, experimental way
||| FROM ANDREA HENDRICK ||| The difficulties maintaining school, in person and virtually, has been a challenge world-wide during this pandemic. The coming months can be a perfect time for the Orcas Island School District
Midnight Mutterings | Crows ll (no cats this time)
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS BY JACKIE BATES ||| I had planned to return to voter suppression tonight, and mutter about the efforts of the Georgia state legislature to pass new legislation that makes people of color
Letter to Editor | Technology, capital projects levy help District meet learning demands
||| FROM SHARON HO and MATT VACCARELLA ||| We are writing in support of the 2021 Technology and Capital Projects levy on the upcoming April 27 ballot. This levy replaces the one approved in 2014
Letter to Editor | Join me in voting yes for school levy
||| FROM MICHELE RODRIGUEZ ||| As a mother of an OASIS student who also has experienced our elementary and Montessori schools, I believe that technology, when used appropriately, can help enhance learning. The remote learning
Guest Opinion | Tax games corporations play
||| FROM HEDRICK SMITH, RECLAIM THE AMERICAN DREAM ||| Washington – Okay, let’s talk turkey about taxes and their implication for U.S. economic growth and inequality. But let’s get real. Let’s get beyond the political
Letter to Editor | In support of technology capital projects levy
||| FROM TOBY AND SARAH COOPER ||| We are pleased to stand with our many Orcas friends in support of the 2021 Tech Levy. For me, as a student up through graduate studies at Michigan,
