Very rarely do policy makers find themselves faced with an opportunity to completely avoid an unprecedented fiscal crisis. Unlike the recent recession, Congress and the Administration have everything they need to avoid sending our country over the fiscal cliff.
The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are always a special time of year for people who live and work in Marysville. It’s a time to be with family and enjoy the company of friends and loved ones, a time to say thanks for all that we have, and a time to reflect on what we have shared with those who are not as fortunate or have fallen on tough times.
Let me take this opportunity to give thanks to the many, many community partners that make the lives of our students and our community so much richer. On behalf of our dedicated, hardworking staff, thank you for your generous gifts of time, talent and treasure to make our schools and community better each year:
There are so many churches around Marysville that I lose count. It used to be easy keeping track of churches by tallying belfries, steeples and crosses but nowadays you find them settled into schools, theaters and industrial parks. About the only way to spot churches is by concentrations of cars on Sunday morning. It’s trickier on Saturday night or whenever else worshippers gather.
Things are getting uglier in the Mideast. We strain western-trained brains to understand why as confusion and frustration build. After all, we’re the good guys. We dig wells, ship in foodstuffs, correct cleft palates. Why don’t they love us? Could it have something to do with the 11,874 civilian Afghan civilian casualties since 2007? Though many of those fell to the Taliban, Afghans prefer to hold foreigners responsible.
People here on the West Coast have read the news and watched television lately transfixed by the images of Superstorm Sandy’s trail of devastation on the East Coast, especially along battered coastlines in New York and New Jersey, but laying waste to other parts of the eastern seaboard as well.
November is Native American Heritage month and a fitting time to say “Thank you” to the Tulalip Tribes for the many ways in which they partner with the Marysville Schools.
I gassed up at the Smokey Point Costco for $3.97 per gallon. That hurt, but anything short of four bucks per gallon was a bargain. The per-gallon cost was only the out-of-pocket cost. Add exhaust stink, lung-searing pollution, water contamination and greenhouse gases to approach the total cost of a gallon of gas.
