By David Anderson “Pedophilia, incest and graphic sex,” is on all Washington public schools’ recommended reading list for 11th graders this September. Is your child entering 11th grade in September – anywhere in any of Washington’s public schools or those of any of 45 other states that have adopted the Common Core curriculum?
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Westside Story – Raven Gets Jump On Life
Photo, Video & Story – Joseph Boyle A couple days ago I was at Starbucks minding my own business when this guy named Richard, drove up in a beautiful 1980 Rolls Royce. What a fun car. We got to talking. He told me he had heard of me, the oldest living cub reporter this side […]
Westside Story – Young Author / Pogo Stick
Story by Raven, Photos – Joseph Boyle If you got a chance to read my previous story titled Raven Gets Jump On Life, you will already know what I am up to. I am very excited to give up some of my writing space for a young author whose first name is Raven. Raven is […]
Letter: Scams Sully the Lottery? What?
By David Anderson ‘You’ve won a lottery prize!’ the caller says in his best broken English. Dropping the phone you shout excitedly to the family ‘We won the lottery!’
Letter: Rail Road Rage
By David Anderson You’ve no doubt heard of the engineer texting – but tailgating another train, really? Conductors deliberately preventing other locomotives from merging – telling ‘the little train that could’ it can’t – or chasing down another train?
Letter: High Speed Rail Sucks Money in High Speed
By David Anderson What does the Point Defiance Rail Bypass Project – that would reroute Amtrak passenger trains away from the scenic Puget Sound waterfront to a heavily life-congested path through Tillicum and other communities along I-5, seven daily round trips at 79 mph and 45 seconds per intersection – have in common with the following?
Letter: There Was a Crooked Man
By David Anderson It’s called a “traditional nonsense rhyme, sure to keep young children amused.” Indeed you’ve probably seen them smile as you read of the crooked man walking the crooked mile, who bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse and they all lived together in a little crooked house.
Letter: “Fire! It’s On Fire!”
By David Anderson Yesterday afternoon my son-in-law called quite out-of-breath shouting “Fire! It’s on fire!” I’m not sure if I hung up on him before he got a chance to hang up on me but those few dreaded words uttered quite obviously while on the run from the sound of his voice got me to running […]
Religious? How dumb!
By David Anderson If you’re of the pew-warming sort you haven’t a clue – is the more crass assessment of a project that finds religious people to be less intelligent than atheists. “The studies used in Zuckerman’s paper included a life-long analysis of the beliefs of a group of 1,500 gifted children – those with IQs over […]