By David Anderson How the Seattle Mariners can win the World Series. I was giving some thought to an article I was thinking I’d write on the decisions we sometimes think maybe we ought to give more thought to before we make them – or not – when I got sidetracked by a friend on […]
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Letter: Game Over – Legislative bill would eliminate Lottery games…
By David Anderson It was simply called ‘The Game.’ The Game that featured “The Play.” The year was 1982. Stanford’s band had rushed onto the field thinking the game was over. Tubas, drummers, all wildly celebrating I suppose. I wasn’t there so I can only imagine the scene. Wait. What?
Letter: City Commercial: $20,000 Cash
By David Anderson People have to heat their homes and cook their food. Given the current economic times, we didn’t think it was wise to increase that tax. So how does spending nearly $20,000 for an infomercial reflect those valued bare-necessities?
Letter: Why We Argue
By David Anderson “Nothing tells us more about people than the opinions they hold and their reasons for holding them.” We were crossing Death Valley and you just simply cannot do that without stopping somewhere along the trail, enticing all your little family to exit the air-conditioned van leaving their water bottles behind and belly-up […]
Letter: Let’s Party
By David Anderson Why is Trudi Inslee, First Lady of Washington State, appearing on stage with – for lack of a more discreet term – ladies of the night? Trudi Inslee, wife of Washington State Governor Jay Inslee, will join Miss Indigo Blue, Head Mistress of Academy of Burlesque and Reigning Queen of Burlesque 2012; and Inga […]
Letter: Somebody’s Watching Me
By David Anderson “Somebody’s Watching Me” should be the ringtone for every person elected, appointed, delegated, nominated, or even thinking about being in a position to spend other people’s money or represent others in any fashion. They can get it here. The United States Postal Service (USPS) can’t make their appointed rounds – Saturday delivery isn’t cost-effective – […]
Letter: ‘If Wilberforce had given the State of the Union address’
By David Anderson A few days from now we will celebrate a momentous historical event. At 4 A.M. on February 24, 1807, England’s House of Commons, by an overwhelming majority of 283 to 16, abolished the slave trade. They rose to their feet, turned to fellow legislator William Wilberforce, and began to cheer while Wilberforce bowed […]
Westside Story – Pencil Art
Story & Photos – Joseph Boyle I have been on the planet for almost 70 years. You give me a number 2 pencil and I have to tell you; I am lucky if I can write my name so you can read it. Not true of my Starbucks friend, Patrick Pastor. You can’t believe what Patrick […]
Letter: “Grandpa! Can We Climb That?”
By David Anderson Our grandsons, ages six and three, were reviewing the day with grandma. What did they like best? Tackling each other on the beach at Pt. Defiance (pile on grandpa without warning)? Building a ship and setting it out to sea (piece of bark with a vertical stick for a seaweed sail, bombing it into oblivion […]