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A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure and label. A number can provide context, meaning, and understanding. Numbers can provide useful information beyond …
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BY NED LUCE
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1/17/24
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“Life offers more to those who say yes.”
This advice from a good friend made 2023 an incredible year. It brought me to The Leader last October. It sent me to Denmark or two weeks …
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Erik Dolson
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1/10/24
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The year 2024 has begun. How are you feeling about that?
When, in late 2023, I asked some neighbors about what was to come, they cited the presidential election as they expressed fear, dread, …
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JASON VICTOR SERINUS
AS I SEE IT
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1/10/24
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This is a puzzlement for many of us. And sometimes a befuddlement. I speak here of a fairly recent and positive development in the newspaper biz: the New York Times’ growing stable of …
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BILL MANN
MANN OVERBOARD
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1/10/24
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Off and running! We have a new year and we now can put so much stuff into the bin of needing to be forgotten.
There was the almost-in-the-playoffs Seattle Mariners. It seems like …
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NED LUCE
Life in Ludlow
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1/10/24
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As a fan of TV reruns, I admit my favorite is “The Andy Griffith Show.” I remember the Mayberry days; glad to have grown up in the 1950s, a sweeter, simpler time that my grandkids and …
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CAROLE MARSHALL
AGING IN
GOOD SPIRITS
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1/10/24
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We face a world that is changing, for some too fast and others not fast enough. We are not prepared, though many in our Liberal corner of our Liberal state on the far edge of America believe we are …
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12/13/23
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We’ve had several tough discussions over the last week having to do with words. What we name things locates them in our view of the world.
We act as if words have existence of their own. …
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12/6/23
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Sometimes I can still hear her. “Hurry up and clean your plate. Hurry up and get ready for school. Don’t be late for the dentist. Hurry up with your homework.”
Grandma Nana was …
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CAROLE MARSHALL
AGING IN
GOOD SPIRITS
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12/6/23
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In predawn dark two days before Thanksgiving the streets are silent, cold rain isn’t set to arrive until this afternoon, the old boiler below sends warmth clicking and burbling through pipes …
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Another birthday! It was a big one! Not about to publicize my age but will say my grandkids are getting mighty old.
On this momentous occasion I received congrats and love from my kids, had …
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CAROLE MARSHALL
AGING IN
GOOD SPIRITS
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11/29/23
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According to the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center at Iowa State University, we Americans eat 2.3 pounds of cranberries every year, 20 percent or 80 million pounds of them this week! There are …
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NED LUCE
Life in Ludlow
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11/29/23
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The situation in Gaza grows more horrible each hour. On the day I write this, the heads of United Nations agencies involved with humanitarian relief told the U.N. General Assembly that an …
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Re: Port Townsend Prepares for climate change threat (Nov. 8, 2023)
The United States has per capita GHG emissions of about 18 metric tons of CO2 equivalent each year. As …
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11/15/23
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Hatch Schneider is the new editor of the Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader, and he has the newsroom on a tight leash.
He has worked as a reporter and editor across the U.S. for more than …
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4/1/20
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