This letter is in response to recent events at our local YMCA, and the subsequent fear-mongering and misinformation campaign that is occurring thanks to a few folks who think someone else’s …
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It is time for Democratic leadership to go on the offensive with Republicans. About abortion rights, healthcare, the environment, everything!
One way to do this is to start telling the …
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I watched with horror the assault on the LetJulieSwim supporters at Pope Marine Park on Monday afternoon, evidently by supporters of transgender people.
Their behavior proved the LetJulieSwim …
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Port Townsend is a special place. Its residents celebrate their differences. Neighbors support one another. So I was heartbroken to see its streets overrun by members of the Washington State Three …
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The Social and Environment Justice Council of the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship stands in solidarity with all transgender people.
We denounce the harassment that’s …
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The rights and freedoms of your LGBTQ+ neighbors — our “inalienable” rights to live and love in harmony and peace — are under concerted attack.
Last week, a …
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Last Saturday, June 11, Port Townsend participated in the nationwide protest, March for Our Lives!
People of all ages gathered on Water Street downtown with and without …
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When my family moved here in the late 1980s, there were deer and packs of coyotes to keep the number of fawns in check. There was no need to have 6-foot fences to protect gardens, ornamentals, and …
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I had my newly rescued terrier overcome and pinned by two very large dogs at the Chetzemoka dog park today. I had my back turned and was trying to latch the gate when I heard snarling and yelping. I …
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In a recent newsletter, Heather Cox Richardson details the genesis of women’s right to vote in this country. The suffragettes’ manifesto was structured like the Declaration of …
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Art Franks’ misleading, ugly, and mean-spirited attack ad on Joe Nole reveals his true colors; it has all the markings of a Trump Republican.
Do you really want this type of …
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Regarding the Jan. 6 hearings, I noticed the national press talked a lot about Trump’s temper. Not so much about meetings of his lawyers, chief of staff Mark Meadows and other high ranking …
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I have a plan which I think will work to overturn the mind-numbingly stupid SCOTUS Roe decision.
1. Every woman who experiences any form of governmental intervention in her pregnancy or her …
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Many Democrats in leadership positions have spoken out against the violence and the intentions of Bolsonaro’s supporters storming Brazil’s key federal buildings yesterday.
However, the …
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I’m beginning to seriously wonder just how the city measures its needs and goes about setting its priorities.
At the moment, it is charging ahead with plans to build a new pool for $38 …
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I reject the Aug. 24 Leader headline of an anti-trans protest. I was invited to speak at a permitted event on Aug 15. Clashes, attacks, and public endangerment were not on the part of …
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The hypocrisy of the Secret Service disallowing concealed or open-carry weapons, to secure NRA and Trump’s safety at the convention, while kids are subjected to the unabridged freedom of mass …
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I wish to stand for the life forms below the surface of the sea, what we call “plankton,” and for the art of Rebecca Welti, a local artist who proposes bringing depictions of these …
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There are many things distressing about Julie Jaman’s outburst at the Port Townsend YMCA swimming pool and her follow-up statements, widely disseminated through conservative outlets, expressing …
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I would like to thank The Leader for its clear and objective reporting on what took place at Pope Marine Park on Monday, Aug. 15th, and for accurately describing it as an anti-trans protest organized …
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