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The three points raised in Bruce Elliott’s letter are incomplete to say the least. Please allow the La Conner School District (LCSD) and the Swinomish Tribe to jointly set the record straight. State funding does not fully support LCSD’s budgetary obligations With regard to the “McCleary Fix,” the state has made significant progress toward meeting its legal duty to fully fund basic education. Paying teachers a living wage is unquestionably a part of funding basic education. In addition, school districts are required to provide – and pay...
While forest fires rage in the Western United States and hurricanes batter the East Coast, we have had our own disaster here in the Salish Sea. The release of hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon into our waters here created an ecological disaster on a scale that we have not seen in the Salish Sea before. One week after their release this invasive species had been found as far south as the Nisqually River, as far North as the Fraser River and on the coast of Vancouver Island. I and other Swinomish fishers caught Atlantic salmon in our own S...
