Most of us are tired of angry, partisan politics and smear letters. We want someone who is not divisive, who can work with people on both sides of the aisle, who will listen. There is a candidate who is all of these things: it is Barbara Bailey. She is a legislator of honesty and integrity, who understands the issues and will work with representatives of both parties to represent us in Olympia.
A pedal steel guitar player, Kinny Alvers, has moved to Marysville and he and a former Marysville resident, Lloyd Crafton, who has switched from rock-n-roll to play country, have joined Cookie Spirk’s band Silvana.
The Sept. 17 edition of The Times published a letter from a reader bemoaning the fact that someone dared to criticize Obama, the media’s messianic candidate, during the Republican convention. The author declared that she had had enough of the “shooting from the hip” by the opposition. Well there’s plenty that the rest of us have had enough of.
MARYSVILLE — City officials may be about to weigh in on whether or not commercial passenger planes should be allowed to take flight at Paine Field in neighboring Everett.
MARYSVILLE — Last year the Marysville Noon Rotary sold more than 200,000 pounds of pumpkins.
In many circles these days, it’s fashionable to criticize forestry. Critics say tree farming, cutting trees and salvaging logs for lumber, paper and thousands of other products we need every day is wrong and clearly bad for the environment. They are wrong.
Tribal Spokesman Stan Jones recently published one more call for better stewardship of our streams and rivers. Jones’ plea addressed a real need but was anyone listening? We might pay more attention if evidence for stream degradation was measured against the best base-line but that won’t be found by looking back to 1990 or 1960. The only baseline that really counts is the condition of pristine waters before the forests were cleared away and homes and businesses of immigrants lined up along waterfronts.
Barbara Bailey helped pass SHB 1032 which created a sustainable energy trust and which promoted the development of sustainable energy resources including new energy technologies. She also supported EHB 1057 which required a review of state agencies that owned and operated refueling sites to see if it was practical and/or possible to offer alternative fuels to other agencies or for public use. Barbara Bailey also helped pass ESHB 1211 which provided tax exemptions for solar components.
I was rather surprised to learn that Joe Wilson, a candidate for Superior Court Judge, has had multiple DUI’s or alcohol related driving incidents as reported in the local media. Shouldn’t Superior Court Judges exemplify the law?
Those in support of physician-assisted suicide argue that by providing lethal medication they are showing compassion to the terminally ill. Yet when offered the choice of death, patients, instead of feeling less pain or fear, actually had increased feelings of anxiety, pain and worthlessness.
Inspired by views of unending sunsets over Marysville from his picturesque location on the western slope of Getchell Hill, Art Dujardin is pleased to announce he is having a solo show at Solovei Art Gallery in Everett.
It’s his love of music that inspired Lakewood High School senior Josh Smith to plan two benefit concerts for his senior project.
10:47 a.m.: Theft of bicycle, on the 6400 block of 88th Street NE.
