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Letter to Editor | Years of planning went into creating the new health clinic; give it a chance
||| FROM HILARY CANTY ||| The Orcas clinic transition is scheduled to officially occur on April 1. This has been years, if not decades, in the making and as we near the date, things have
Midnight Mutterings | Crowds
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS BY JACKIE BATES ||| Not one of us will soon forget the images of the incursion on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and the physical and psychological damage incurred. That
‘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 | An inside view of those North Beach trees
||| FROM DON WALTERS, CHILDREN'S HOUSE BOARD PRESIDENT ||| I wanted to comment on the article from January 22 by Matthew Gilbert, titled “North Beach trees on the chopping block.” Cory Harrington does not officially
Letter to Editor | Vaccination rollout is ‘haphazardous’
||| FROM ERIC AND BARBARA GOURLEY ||| [Sunday] morning Fareed Zakaria called America's handling of the CV19 vaccination program "a haphazardous rollout." Has anyone besides my wife and I tried the County's CV19 Eligibility and
‘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.
Guest Opinion | Can Biden activate the political center?
||| FROM HEDRICK SMITH ||| Washington – The battle cry ”Go Big, Joe! Go Big!” echoed among Democrats after their underdog candidates scored stunning upset victories in Georgia, picking up two vital senate seats earlier
Midnight Mutterings | Ruthie and the Supremes
||| BY JACKIE BATES ||| National events this week have been so explosive I have to skip them entirely and return to the past in my fortnightly foray into talking to myself in the dark.
‘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.
Guest Opinion | Neil Sheehan: What makes great reporting?
||| FROM HEDRICK SMITH ||| SAIGON, January 1964 – “It looks like a coup,” Neil Sheehan said. “I’ll call Mordecai. He’ll know whose tanks those are.” I had just told Neil that I had seen tanks
Letter to Editor | Wow, that was a really long power outage
||| FROM TONY GHAZEL ||| In the 25 years we've lived in this community, today's power outage is one of the longest that I can remember. But this is not the reason for this note;
Letter to Editor | I’m challenging myself to listen; in the process, I might learn something
||| FROM SHARON ABREU ||| I've been reading discussions about the current issue of censorship and social media. I think it's a very important discussion. Censorship of any kind can be a slippery slope. I
‘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.
Guest Opinion | Rebuilding the guard rails of our Republic
||| FROM HEDRICK SMITH ||| Hedrick Smith, NY Times reporter, Frontline producer and founder of Reclaim the American Dream (reclaimtheamericandream.org) Washington – Just when you think we are out of the woods and
Guest Opinion | Rebuilding the guard rails of our Republic
||| FROM HEDRICK SMITH, RECLAIM THE AMERICAN DREAM ||| Hedirck Smith, NY Times reporter, Frontline producer and founder of Reclaim the American Dream (reclaimtheamericandream.org) Washington – Just when you think we are out
