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I cannot tell you how many times I’ve sat down to write, only to stare at an empty screen with a blinking cursor before me and realize I have nothing nice to say.
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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11/30/23
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It was the early 1990s in Azusa, California, where I was in college. It was December, it was finals week, and, needing to blow off stress, we went Christmas caroling.
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Dan Whitmarsh
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11/30/23
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Cement making around the world releases so much carbon dioxide that if it were a country, it would be the third biggest source of CO2 pollution.
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Richard Gelinas
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11/30/23
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Sure, you expect to laugh at lists of crazy Engrish menu mistranslations on social media, “Braised Dork with Bamboo Gunfires,” not to mention episodes of The Three Stooges.
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DAN CLOUSE
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11/30/23
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‘Tis the season — for all those Mariah Carey horror memes.
Truth to tell, I’ve actually never minded the song; it’s fine. The horror comes from having it repeated ad …
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José Alaniz
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11/30/23
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Violence tests us in unexpected ways. It strains our identity when the time comes to defend all those fancy principles we think we hold.
I was already suitably humbled when I heard the …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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11/2/23
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Fellow KPers — get thee to YouTube and watch “The Maple Cutter,” a 2023 documentary by Daniel Hoffman and Lynn M. Thomas.
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José Alaniz
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11/2/23
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A few weeks ago, I flew home to Seattle from Missoula. I was looking forward to getting home, excited that the flight wasn’t more than an hour. I settled into my window seat and watched as the …
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Anna Brones
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11/2/23
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As the countdown clock ticked away the waning days of summer, school and library boards around the country were besieged with demands to limit access to an ever-expanding list of books.
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Carolyn Wiley, KP News
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11/2/23
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I would like to skip the question about whether heaven exists, maybe another time, but let’s think about the idea of heaven. I’m sure some of you have a pretty clear picture, maybe based …
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Jack Dunne
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11/2/23
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Already I have lived longer than my dad and brothers. At 68 I find myself living happily in Longbranch after a lifetime as a third-generation Californian. We moved up to be closer to our grown kids …
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11/2/23
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“You know, there really is a lot of great stuff going on here.”
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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11/2/23
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This column (October 2023), though well written, is a real headscratcher for me. Fracking for oil in shale is bad, but de-watering is good?
De-watering is the process used in fracking or …
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11/1/23
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I appreciated John Pat Kelly’s letter to the editor regarding the current KP fire commissioner position 3 election where he expressed his disappointment that I am running unopposed …
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10/20/23
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I encourage all voters to cast their ballots for two very deserving candidates for fire commissioner positions.
Shawn Jensen, position No. 3, has been a fire commissioner for the past seven …
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10/20/23
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If chosen by the will of the citizens of the Key Peninsula, as a write-in candidate for fire commissioner position 3 with Pierce County Fire District No. 16, I, Hal Wolverton, vow to bring back …
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10/20/23
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After squandering hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars, I was disappointed to see Commissioner Shawn Jensen running unopposed for re-election. Jensen, along with Stan Moffett and the rest of the …
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9/27/23
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For Dr. Sara Thompson regarding her article: Marvelous. It has stuck with me since I first read it in early August. Paragraphs 8, 9 and 10 were an actual epiphany in the concept of “shocking …
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9/27/23
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I recently attended a high-profile tech conference where artificial intelligence was the talk of the week. After listening to the hype and the promises, and the long-term visions from heavily funded …
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April Godwin
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9/27/23
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On May 10, 2016, then Herron Island ferry captain John Farris posted a photo on the islanders’ group on Facebook with a laconic caption, as was his style, even though the announcement could …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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9/27/23
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