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‘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
Guest Opinion | The more things change, the more they stay the same
||| FROM MICHAEL "MJ" JOHNSON ||| On a macro level the beginning of 2021 gives good reason for optimism with the hope that the vaccines coming out now will prove to be a cure-all for
Midnight Mutterings | Who is Selena Montgomery?
||| BY JACKIE BATES ||| A few days before Christmas I was half-listening to a radio call-in show about favorite books read in 2020. One caller got my attention when she recommended a book by
‘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 ||| Hedirck 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 | Braver discourse: A defense of Orcas Island School District
||| FROM LIAM GRISKEY-WATSON ||| For some background, I read the “Letter to Editor | ‘Brave Discourse:’ An open letter to Orcas Island School District” by Paige McCormick posted on Dec. 15th and felt that
‘Occam’s Razor’ | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our new weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Letter to Editor | Use these three P’s to determine if something is true
||| FROM DAVID KOBRIN ||| The “Three P’s” are a basic method for distinguishing something that’s true — that is actually happening — from something that is “fake” news, or an unsubstantiated internet rumor that’s
Midnight Mutterings | Rudolpha
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS BY JACKIE BATES ||| A long time ago when I had a specialty, my specialty was what would today be called ‘gender studies.’ Back then it was called, well, nothing, because such