Do you know that the U.S. taxpayers are spending $2.7 billion for earmarks this fiscal year?
This letter is in reference to: “School bond: More work to be done” and “School bond advocates eye next step” (Sequim Gazette, April 30):
My “Random House Dictionary of the English Language” defines the word “arrogance” thusly: “Offensive display of superiority or self importance; overbearing pride.”
I believe the Sequim City Council members should be paid for their attendance time, but a 60 percent increase is obscene.
One of the greatest obstacles facing medical cannabis dispensaries is the image — firmly planted in the minds of some people – of what a medical cannabis dispensary is, what cannabis patient looks like and who they are.
Everyone complains that there is too much money in our politics and elections these days … on both sides. If you would like to see this changed, there IS something you can do about it right now … Sign the petition to get Initiative 1329 on next November’s ballot.
The dangerous staging of a toddler’s abduction at Carrie Blake Park deserves to be revisited for prosecution. The perpetrators, the Holden family, should be held accountable in a court.
What is a biker? It really is just about anyone. The hardcore down hiller to the old lady on a three-wheel heading for the store.
Bullying isn’t restricted to school yards; those ubiquitous yellow propaganda signs … bullying property owners, on what seemed to be every street corner.
As I’ve watched the Nevada ranchers protecting their grazing rights against the Bureau of Land Management military, armed with rifles and guard dogs, I thought of Hitler’s “brown shirts” harassing innocent Germans in the 1930s and 1940s.
As a Sequim High School alumna moving to Los Angeles four years ago to further my career after college I prided myself on being from a small, supportive community in the Northwest. After yesterday’s (April 22) failure to pass our proposed school bond I am beginning to rethink that.
A letter to the editor in the Sequim Gazette of April 9 commented on what had not been discussed in an earlier article, “Museum Meltdown,” on April 2, namely that the staff and volunteers of the Museum & Arts Center needed to be thanked for years of excellent work.
“Contempt is not a big deal to the Attorney General,” Rep. Louie Gohmert recently said to AG Eric Holder. Holder replied, “You don’t want to go there, buddy.”
The term “censorship” has not been in wide use since World War II, when security of those at home and the troops fighting for freedoms of our people was at risk.
