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My granddaughter and I have a new tradition, something I never could have predicted. We demonstrate for women’s rights together. Today we stood on a corner in Gig Harbor along with other women, …
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Vicki Biggs
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10/27/22
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“What happened?” It’s a fundamentally human question, maybe the closest we get to simple curiosity. And it’s not simple, not at all. Eyewitness accounts can be flawed, even events from my …
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Jack Dunne
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10/27/22
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I recently watched a short video about a man who lives in the metaverse. The video jumped back and forth between the real world and a computer-generated alternate reality. In the metaverse scenes, I …
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April Godwin
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10/27/22
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“You haven’t made one playdate for me all summer,” Violet, now 7, said one evening in early August.
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Krisa Bruemmer
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9/28/22
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Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Therapeutics developed wonderfully effective vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in 2020 based on RNA therapy.
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Richard Gelinas
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9/28/22
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I have always been cursed with a loud, persistent and frankly irritating self-critical voice.
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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9/28/22
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I was raised by public school educators. I saw firsthand the work, dedication and compassion that being a teacher required.
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Meredith Browand
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9/28/22
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By the time our citizens read this, I will have been the “new” fire chief of Key Peninsula Fire District 16 for five months.
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Nick Swinhart
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9/28/22
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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9/28/22
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The warm, lazy days of summer can be the perfect season to foster procrastination. Do you, like me, identify as a procrastinator? I used to call myself a functioning procrastinator. I always turned …
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Arissan Nicole
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8/31/22
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I tried to sell a book of stories to a regional publisher recently. The owners were older, they liked me, they were enthusiastic, we could maybe do something.
But then it went to their editorial …
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Ted Olinger
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8/31/22
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Fortunately, in our little corner of the world we are immune to the most vile and incendiary campaign rhetoric. Sure, there are instances where messages reflect the pervasive incivility that seems to …
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Carolyn Wiley
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8/31/22
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Janine and Mike were my best friends. Growing up in the 1970s in suburban Reno, Nevada, there were very few summer days you wouldn’t find us together. Both Janine (Nee-nee) and Mike were better …
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Mark Michel
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8/31/22
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In the spring of 2014, after several years of trying, my family was selected in a national lottery for tickets to the White House Easter Egg Roll. We were beyond thrilled. My husband and I decided to …
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Meredith Browand
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7/27/22
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Not to be hypersensitive, but I can’t help but wince when someone says, “no offense, but …,” and then goes straight into an insult.Just as “not to bore you with the …
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Dan Clouse
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7/27/22
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How’s your hope doing? Mine has gone through some rough patches lately and I don’t like it. The news is not giving me enough, the skies are cloudy all day, the streets have too much blood …
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Jack Dunne
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7/27/22
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We sat on our back porch as evening nibbled at the remaining daylight. Across the pond, a full moon rose above a proud line of aged fir trees, its face a milky dime amidst a sky …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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7/27/22
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The state Senate race in our 26th legislative district between first term incumbent Democrat Sen. Emily Randall and four-term incumbent Republican Rep. Jesse Young is projected by most political …
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Bruce Cook
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7/27/22
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