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In response to last week’s letter: “Part II: 19th Amendment Centennial 4,000 years and counting”: It would be interesting to see the list of elevated women prior to the great religions. I found no references in searching the web. I did find in Greek and Roman society woman were lesser than slaves. Judaism stresses that in the home a husband and wife are equal. Outside of the home was mostly dominate by men. However, the 4th judge of Israel was a woman, Deborah 12th century BCE, who maintained peace in Israel for 40 years. In reading the old and...
I wrote this a while back, prior to the immergence of COVID-19. Perhaps this is all one and the same, a symptom of a diseased system that needs attention. Are we waking up at last? The fall of the Roman Empire has been on my mind. While reading the New York Times those thoughts were put into words by Ross Douthat. He writes about decadence. He states that it took 400 years of decadence for the Roman Empire to finally crash. He places technology, as in the Silicon Valley ephemeral technology, as the root of this era of decadence. The advances...
It’s been a short, but busy 60-day session. Legislators have debated hundreds of bills, refining them as they move through the legislative process. With budget negotiations on track to be finalized, this short session should come to an end tomorrow. In even-numbered years, such as this one, the Legislature adjusts the two-year state budget passed in odd-numbered years. Investments made in these supplemental budget years are generally more modest but are important to ensure the most critical needs across our state are addressed. Although by t...
Out local CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) leaders have been advising for years that families prepare for the Big One by assembling 72 hour emergency kits of food, water, flashlights and much more, but certainly toilet paper. No one will know when an earthquake, tsunami or volcanic eruption will leave us helpless, without power or water or transportation access. No one ever expected the big one would come ashore, in the dark of night, or not, as a virus. And, if we are not devastated, we are afraid. The shelves empty of hand sanitizer...
Beth Clothier had all the bases covered for La Conner Elementary students when they returned from mid-winter break on Monday. The La Conner Schools librarian set up a special morning performance by a touring cast from Seattle’s Fifth Avenue Theatre, recognized as one of the leading musical theater companies in the country. Their local show was a big hit on several levels. They presented a fast-paced 40-minute rendition of award-winning Seattle author Ken Mochizuki’s “Baseball Saved Us,” based on the true-life story of a Japanes...
The La Conner High girls’ basketball team played like champions before placing second with the school’s best showing ever at the State 2B Hardwood Classic in Spokane last week. Its hard-fought 52-45 title round loss on Saturday to No. 1-ranked Liberty (Spangle) and 6’-0” Division I prospect Maisie Burnham, an Eastern Washington University commit, while disappointing, couldn’t erase the thrill generated by a La Conner hoops team playing in a state championship game for the first time. “I couldn...
After a crossroads election that marked the end of an era, the Swinomish Tribal Senate on Monday selected a tested leader to guide the 11-member panel on the path ahead. Steve “Rudy” Edwards, who has served as Tribal recreation director among other key roles, was the Senate’s choice to succeed Brian Cladoosby as its chairman. Cladoosby, who had chaired the Swinomish Senate for more than two decades and was widely recognized as a prominent national voice in the Native American community, was d...
Your weekly newspaper is doubling down on its commitment to La Conner, elevating journalist Bill Reynolds to news editor and buying the property his office is in at 119 North Third Street. “Bill Reynolds does much more than report on La Conner events. He is practically the town historian and certainly its champion. From the school hall to the town hall, Bill knows, and cares, about everyone. He is a thoughtful, careful journalist and I am thrilled he will increase his role by becoming the n...
Concerns of the Coronavirus have reached into La Conner. Tuesday Mayor Ramon Hayes sent this recommendation from the Skagit County Health Officer to Town Councilmembers and staff: “The community should postpone non-essential events and gatherings of ten or more people.” While there are no known infections in Skagit County, there have been local cancellations and runs on hand sanitizer, rubbing alcohol and, yes, toilet paper. At the start of last week staff taped a “No masks, No Sanitizer” sign on the door of the La Conner Drug store. Saturday t...
Out local CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) leaders have been advising for years that families prepare for the Big One by assembling 72 hour emergency kits of food, water, flashlights and much more, but certainly toilet paper. No one will know when an earthquake, tsunami or volcanic eruption will leave us cutoff, without power or water or transportation access. No one ever expected the big one would come ashore as a virus, whether in the dark of night, or not. And, if we are not devastated, we are afraid. The shelves empty of hand saniti...
[This response to Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s endorsement of Biden for president was published in the Seattle Times March 7—ed.] Mayor Durkan: I was disappointed to see you “jumped on the Biden bandwagon.” Be careful what you wish for! As of Super Tuesday, there have only been about one-third of the delegates allocated for the Democratic National Convention, and yet the compliant establishment Democratic candidates rushed to endorse Biden, thus likely guaranteeing another four years of Trump – if you agree with the Op-Eds linke...
