by Don C. Brunell
by Cindy Bond
No familiar, long white envelope came to me in my mailbox to inform me of the death of Lolly Durkan, like those I received from the Legislature when over a dozen of my friends from legislative days passed in the last year.
The Rotary Club of Marysville is probably best known for its annual Pumpkins for Literacy Patch which raises funds to promote literacy in local schools and which funded the recent distribution of dictionaries to approximately 1,200 third-graders in the areas 10 elementary schools.
When we were in elementary school we all learned the story of Thanksgiving. On Dec. 20, 1620, 102 pilgrims sailing aboard the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. Struggling through a devastating winter, 46 of the pilgrims perished. But their fortunes improved and the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. The surviving pilgrims decided to celebrate their blessings with a feast. Recognizing they couldnt have survived without their assistance, the pilgrims invited 91 Native Americans to celebrate with them.
by Bill Blake
It is only the faces that identify one TV channels news from another. The sameness isnt so much that they all draw from the same well, but that they speak the same sound-bites. Once the rhetoric is set in DC press conferences, TV anchors parrot them. Weapons of Mass Destruction. War on Terror. Surge. Certainly there is frightening substance behind such terms, but does that explain our being beaten over the head with them so often?
From out of the smoke of the fires and the blood of the murdered Warsaw ghetto, we imprisoned in the ghetto send you our heartful fraternal greetings. We know that you watch with pain and compassionate tears, with admiration and alarm, the outcome of this war, which we have been waging for many days with the cruel occupant. Let it be known that every threshold in the ghetto has been and will continue to be a fortress, that we may all perish in this struggle, but we will not surrender: that, like you, we breathe with a desire for revenge of the crimes of our common foe. A battle is being waged for your freedom as well as ours. For you and our human, civic, and national honor and dignity.
Adele Ferguson
by Don C. Brunell
by Sheldon Richman
Most of us have already voted by now but some readers have asked my opinions anyway, even if only out of curiosity, so I shall oblige as I do in most elections.
by Scott Dilley
