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Juneteenth is this weekend! ||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. DEBRA LEKANOFF ||| Today is Juneteenth! You may have heard the word “Juneteenth” before, maybe even you remember learning about it in school. But for many, Juneteenth is more than just a word. It’s the date, June 19th, 1865, when slaves in Galveston, Texas were
||| FROM ELISABETH ROBSON ||| Today I received in my inbox an email from OPALCO extolling an affordable energy future powered by renewables and carried by electric vehicles. We get pictures of solar panels and an electric vehicle happy deal. They claim in this email that their vision of the future will help us "shift
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. DEBRA LEKANOFF ||| Happy Fantastic Friday! This week, we honor and remember our missing sisters on National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People. A huge thank you to the Washington State Women’s Commission for hosting the No More Stolen Sisters panel discussion. It was an honor to join
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. LEKANOFF ||| Updates on my bills House Bill 1117 integrates salmon recovery into the Growth Management Act (GMA) and sets a standard for net ecological gain in community development. Through these policies, we can protect our environment and mitigate the impacts of climate change as we continue to grow. The bill is scheduled for
||| FROM POST ALLEY ||| Reprint at request of reader. We were lifting cups in a lodge at Redfish Lake, beneath 10,000-foot summits of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, talking about thousands of sockeye salmon that once swam 900 miles up the Columbia, Snake, and Salmon Rivers to spawn. Tough to believe, the guy most adamant about
||| FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DEBRA LEKANOFF ||| Step One for Washington’s Community and Economic Recovery House Democrats announced today the first step in the House and Senate plan for Washington’s community and economic recovery, starting with the allocation of $2.2 billion in federal funds to provide assistance to Washington families and businesses who have been
||| FROM MICHAEL WELDING for NAS WHIDBEY ||| NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. - A Search and Rescue (SAR) team from Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island conducted two life-saving missions on January 9, 2021. The first mission involved a morning medical evacuation from Orcas Island for a 62 year-old woman who had fallen
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS by STEVE HENIGSON ||| Friends, Orcasians, Washingtonians, lend me your time. I come not to praise the Department of Licensing (DoL), but to condemn its voracious need to bury us in paperwork. The evil that bureaucracy does lives malevolently forever, while the good is often hidden beneath mountains of meaningless forms. And
||| BY MATTHEW GILBERT, REPORTER ||| On October 13, the Lopez Island Library hosted a panel of legislators and environmental advocates titled “Protecting the Salish Sea in the Time of Covid-19.” The event was put together by Community Rights San Juan Islands (CRSJI), a Lopez-based nonprofit exploring strategies for legally recognizing that nature – in
-- by Emily McCarty / Crosscut.com -- John Bonica had the second confirmed case of COVID-19 in Okanogan County. At the end of March, after about 10 days of body aches, fever and chills, he got his test results — positive. Eventually, everyone in his family, except one daughter, contracted the coronavirus. Bonica, owner of