What are the elements of a good quality of life? Good, accessible and affordable health care … being able to pay your bills.
I truly intended to write an insightful, even supportive, column about SARC and its board’s current survival strategy to find a secure home as a Metropolitan Park District.
By now, it’s likely you know Megan O’Mera’s face. The Sequim High School junior is the Sequim Irrigation Festival queen and is heading into her second week of one of the busiest weeks of her young life making appearances, singing and smiling for a lot of photos aside from trying to find time for AP classes and the high school golf team.
The Legislature is at loggerheads, with the Democrat-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate far apart in their proposed budgets.
Regulations, whether through government, professional bodies or private ruling entities, can be a pain. Health care, my industry, is near the top — if not over the top — with regulation.
It certainly sounded like a fad to me. A while ago I caught a program on public television about a medical doctor in Great Britain. Dr. Michael Mosley, like millions in both that country and in the U.S., found that in middle age he needed to lose weight and lower his blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
Will you celebrate Tax Freedom Day this year? Until April 24, every penny we’ve earned in 2015 goes to pay your taxes.
The striking photo of a platinum-like tooth brush against a black background got my attention.
In a perfect world, with sunshine and lavender aplenty, the Dungeness Valley already would have a broad, user-based Metropolitan Park District. It would make good economic and practical sense to partner with the county and City of Sequim, along with other users of recreational activities throughout the district, like the senior center, pickleball, tennis and soccer players and others. But we do not live in a perfect world right now.
Recently there has been a community discussion regarding proposals to submit to the voters for their approval a Metropolitan Park District (MPD). In my view the problem we need to solve is that parks and recreation services and facilities in the Sequim community are underfunded and do not meet current needs or expectations.
Senate Bill 5077, proposed 2015-2017 state operating budget; House Bill 1299, Proposed transportation budget for the 2015-2017 biennium; Senate Bill 6088, addressing K-12 education enhancements made by Initiative 1351; Senate Bill 5518, Creating procedures to address campus sexual violence; Senate Bill 5153, Increasing the transparency of campaign contributions
Recent voting scorecard for Sequim-area legislators in Olympia
Our state’s public structures and services are the oil of our economic engine. From roads to bridges, preschool to college, veterans benefits to senior services, and protections for our air and drinking water, we’re all better off when we invest in strong communities.
