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Today, the people of Gaza are being attacked and their homes destroyed using weapons we paid for and sent. It is time for someone to stop this wanton killing and maiming, which …
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1/17/24
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Anti-trans activists are trotting out old, discredited arguments, but using them against trans people instead of gays.
They say they’re protecting women, but it doesn’t take much …
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9/7/22
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In January of 2016, I wrote an op-ed acknowledging things were about to change in Washington DC. I also promised nothing was going to change at Jefferson Healthcare. In the piece, I laid out our …
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7/22/22
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I have been invested in the golf course issue from the beginning by attending stakeholder meetings, town forums, open houses and council meetings.
I have listened and tried to understand why a …
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Dorothy Cotton
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7/19/23
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I am not a golfer nor have much interest in it. I am very glad to see the strong support for keeping the golf course in some form or another.
I do enjoy playing on fun and creative little …
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Bill Dentzel
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7/19/23
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I read with great interest your article about the guy who carved a cedar tree into a “Raccoon Lodge.”
Wow! Awesome!
I saw a tree stump to the right. This is a perfect …
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4/5/23
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Gabe Van Lelyveld’s letter on March 29 falsely claims a $42,000 average subsidy for the golf course.
If we assume he is right and given our population of 10,000-plus this works out to less …
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4/7/23
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Every June, my husband and I leave Port Townsend on our fishing boat to migrate north to Southeast Alaska where we spend the summer months catching wild salmon. This year is different.
Instead, …
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6/14/23
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I thought the golf course drama would work its own self out. The original premise for its review was it’s a financial drain on city coffers. From what I knew, it was running at minor deficit …
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7/12/23
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On Wednesday night the Forest Service proposed several ideas to create funds from forest land without chopping wood. Three of these included using carbon credits, tree thinning of overgrown forests, …
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12/11/22
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The current Medicaid funding shortfall has a terrible human cost to patients, families, caregivers, and our whole community as hospitals are overcrowded. I am the administrator at San Juan Villa and …
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3/2/23
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I’m writing to give some background on new yard signs about the golf course that you may see in the coming weeks.
I teach Advanced Placement Language & Composition at Port Townsend …
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3/2/23
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It’s unfortunate that the Leader doesn’t review theater anymore, because our community is in possession of a world-class gem.
In lieu of an official Arts and Entertainment …
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3/2/23
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Why a roundabout on Kearney?!
There are so many more pressing intersections without any kind of traffic systems, along Sims, F. Street, right outside of PT, etc. What is wrong with people …
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3/2/23
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It is way past time for Christians to condemn anti-Semitism, as did Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s. He paid with his life. We are more fortunate (now), but …
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12/10/22
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Didn’t your elders teach you to clean up after yourselves?
I live near Jefferson County Fairgrounds and walk through it frequently. It was sweet to see our fun county fair resume this summer …
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3/8/23
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The current task to redefine portions of our city’s zoning code that is before our elected officials, staff, and volunteer planning commission is immense and complex. While I maintain the …
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3/8/23
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Octopuses are widely recognized as the smartest invertebrate in the world, even being known to outsmart humans and escape enclosures. We love them so much, we even named our hockey team after them! …
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3/8/23
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Port Townsend Golf Course has raised more than $700,000 for kids and charities over the last 20 years from golf tournaments.
This list was compiled by a mens club member a few years ago. Kiwanis, …
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3/8/23
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Your Feb. 23 headline article “Fair association turns microscope on itself” reporting Jefferson County Fair Association self-governance failure, reminds me of your mud-drag event …
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3/12/23
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