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Aug 28 2008, 4:30 PM I don't know about you but I am so sick and tired of this relentless cold and wet weather I could just spit. Every where I look it seems to appear that spring is here but it sure doesn't feel like it. Days in the low to mid-40s and nights still in the 30s. The ground is so cold and wet that I have absolutely no desire to bend down and pull a weed or plant a new perennial. My vegetable garden soil in my raised beds is ready but every time I think I am going to plant some new transplants it is raining again. What's a gardener to do? Go to the Home and Garden Show of course.
This week starting Friday and running through Sunday at Comcast Arena in Everett you can get out of the blasted cold and rainy weather and do a little dreaming about all the wonderful things you would like to do to your home and garden this year (if it ever stops raining). Hundreds of exhibitors will be tempting you with new and exciting ideas, new products and new services. You can learn all about the new energy efficient (so called "green" or "sustainable") products that are on the market as well as new techniques for all sorts of home projects. From kitchens to bathrooms to garages to gardens and patios, there is bound to be something that will catch your interest and send you back home all refreshed and ready to forge ahead (once it stops raining).
In addition to visiting all these exhibitors you will also have the opportunity to experience several demonstrations and lectures during the course of the weekend. This is where I get excited because I will be one of those presenters that will be bringing you all the latest scoop on what's hot in the gardening world from new plant introductions to new products to grow better tomatoes, healthier soils, gardening tips and techniques that I have learned over the years that will save you time and money, pruning advice for your shrubs and vines, how to divide your hostas or make your Rhodies more compact and a whole host of other topics too numerous to mention.
Batucada at Byrnes Performing Arts Center
Aug 28 2008, 4:30 PM
An exotic musical opportunity is coming to the Byrnes Performing Arts Center, when Batucada Yemanjá do Pacifico offers a concert starting at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 19. It's a benefit concert for Haller Middle School Band's instrument fund, according to Haller's music teacher, Joe Horsak, who is a member of the band more commonly known as Batucada.
Bigtop and other bands at Mirkwood for Free Speech benefit 
Aug 28 2008, 4:30 PM
An employee of the city of Arlington, Brian Fritts and his band are joining several other bands in a benefit for a new First Amendment Scholarship.Live music will be offered starting at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 19, by three bands, Bigtop, The All-American Playboys and Sevrage at the Mirkwood & Shire Cafe, 117 Division St. at the north end of Olympic Avenue.
Jazzmine takes first place at Texas jazz festival
Aug 28 2008, 1:09 PM
Public meetings on stream surveys 
Aug 28 2008, 4:30 PM
The Adopt-A-Stream Foundation has announced four different meetings for landowners along four different Snohomish County streams to explore ways to improve salmon habitat and water quality.
Letters Teaching Democracy Aug 28 2008, 4:37 PM In response to the recent student protest at Totem Middle School, our staff is looking at ways to improve communication and provide more effective avenues for student voice. I am struck by how clearly this highlights our need to actively embrace what I believe to be one of the primary purposes of our public schools namely, to teach democracy. We do this best not by talking about democracy, but by the creation of democratic cultures marked by policies, structures and practices that naturally transmit democratic values by their very existence. More or less?
Aug 28 2008, 4:43 PM Thank you, Rahm Emanuel. Mr. Emanuel, a Democratic congressman from Illinois and former senior policy adviser to President Clinton, recently published several election-year policy proposals on the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal.
The timing of Emanuel's article was magnificent. The Democratic nomination campaign had degenerated into neurotic angst over whether the eventual nominee would have different biological plumbing or more skin pigmentation than any previous nominee for the U.S. presidency. Most of us could care less if the president is a purple neuter as long the policies advocated are acceptable, so Emanuel performed a public service by focusing on substantive rather than symbolic issues.
Although Emanuel's proposals were standard Democratic talking points winking to the labor unions, proposing increased government spending on education, health care and alternative energy sources his proposals were clear and straightforward. His essential political philosophy shared by Clinton and Obama can be summarized in one word: "more," as in, "more government." Indeed, from an economic standpoint, the elemental political choice is always between more or less government. Do we want more government control over our lives and livelihood or less? More government spending and programs or less? More government power over us or less?
Is the PAC on the right track?Aug 28 2008, 4:43 PM Arlington's beautiful performing arts center will not only provide students with a window to the arts, but will also serve the community in countless ways from education and entertainment to boosting revenues for local restaurants and retailers. Water, water everywhere, but will there be enough to drink?
Aug 28 2008, 4:43 PM President, Association of Earth Day celebrates our environment and what we can do to protect it
Aug 28 2008, 4:42 PM Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle, 1855
Nearly four decades ago, Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide environmental protest "to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda."
