Most professional journalists are hesitant to write about proposed legislation, much less speak in favor of it. There’s a centuries-old proverb about going to poultry farms to count eggs too …
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Meredith Jordan
MIXING METAPHORS/DOUBLING ENTENDRES
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7/24/24
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The proposed re-zoning for high density housing on Blaine Street will negatively impact the Kah Tai Prairie Preserve and potentially destroy it.
As a Critical Area Specialist, OWR …
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7/24/24
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Your story on page A2 about the League of Women Voters Forums for the 24th Legislative District Representative, Position 2 named the planned participants. However, while Hickory Grant, …
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7/24/24
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Time to recognize and respect Jason Victor Serinus’s “As I See It” column in the Leader. His recent entry, “State officials can preserve and forward …
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7/24/24
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My husband and I are long time donors to the Food Bank, donating produce and as well as a significant amount of money. I have been very disturbed by the reports about the new managers …
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7/24/24
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Although the deer in Port Townsend are very tame, they are still wild animals, and we should not treat them like they are pets. We should interact with them as little as possible and …
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7/24/24
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This is a reminder that we don’t get to elect a Mayor in this town. That position is by appointment of the City Council who select one from their own ranks. Thus if …
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7/24/24
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As a consistent reader of the Leader, and ardent supporter of local media in general, I am greatly disappointed by the recent canards pasted recklessly on your newspaper’s front …
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7/24/24
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Presentations by the majority of Washington’s local, state, and national Democratic candidates headlined the annual Jefferson County Democratic Fundraiser, held last Sunday, July 21, at the …
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JASON VICTOR SERINUS
AS I SEE IT
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7/24/24
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It was February, 1979 in a cul-de-sac in one of the subdivisions in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. IBM had transferred me from San Francisco to Kansas City, Mo., as I traded earthquakes for tornadoes.
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Ned Luce
Life in Ludlow
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7/24/24
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The Olympic Games in a French-speaking city start this week.
I’ve been there, seen that.
Maybe the oddest of many strange things at the 1976 Olympics (which I covered in …
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Bill Mann
Mann Overboard
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7/24/24
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The Key City Public Theatre is offering audiences a unique opportunity to be part of a filmed stage production, when Port Townsend filmmaker Gabe Van Lelyveld shoots …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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7/24/24
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I love designing kitchen flows that support happy humans. Since we have to cook and eat, why not set up for a pleasurable experience? My strategy is to think about the big picture first, what’s …
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Sidonie Maroon
Kitchen to kitchen
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7/24/24
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The group of fish-eating orcas known as the Southern Resident Killer Whales that ply the Salish Sea several months of the year may go the way of Mystery.
The third and final calf of Misky, …
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SCOTT DOGGETT
WILD NEIGHBORS
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7/24/24
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The first third of the sixth and final season of “Cobra Kai” started streaming on Netflix July 18, and the seams are showing in this latest iteration of the …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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7/24/24
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Frederickson Electric has been installing electric into homes and businesses in Port Townsend for 50 years, first by utilizing coal and other fossil fuels, and now with a push …
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By Alex Frick
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7/24/24
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There’s a reason why the Commerce section has a column talking about nonprofits: In Jefferson County, nonprofits are major employers, providing jobs for hundreds of people.
These …
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Siobhan Canty GUEST COLUMN
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7/24/24
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For those who frequently stop by the Subway sandwich shop on 1300 Water St. in Port Townsend, Mick Davis has become a familiar face over the past 23 years.
Although Davis owned the …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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7/24/24
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7/23/24
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