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Having the WA 129 poetry reading on your schedule is a good idea. It is not every day that a town of 900 and a zip code consisting of all of 4,000 people gets a group of noteworthy poets to visit, much less gather for a reading. Go. We just celebrated Art’s Alive. Come May, we need to go all out for the Skagit River Poetry Festival. No exaggeration: it is a world class event (full disclosure: I am on the board of the Foundation). For Saturday, brace yourselves. Be brave. I make attempts at writing poetry and I find listening to poetry d...
I appreciated your article on Fire District 13’s 2018 budget. However, I was left wondering what happened to the rest of the article. You covered the cash inflows. What about the service outflows? What percentage of Fire District 13’s calls are sent to non-county-taxed tribal lands, such as Shelter Bay and the casino. I’ll give you a hint – it is the vast majority. Updated numbers would be helpful and relevant. Is a $250,000 ‘request’ a fair and responsible amount to cover the Swinomish Tribal Community’s majority use of the fire distri...
Did you know our county has been contracting with a resource-extraction lobbyist in Washington, D.C. for years, to the tune of $137,000 so far? Robert K. Weidner works for oil, gas and timber industries and for counties attracted to his message – look him up on the web. In early January Weidner wrote to our Commissioners with his lobbying priorities. They include: amend (i.e. weaken) the Endangered Species Act; stop withdrawal of public lands from mining activity for sage grouse protection; establish livestock grazing as a so-called benef...
I write – well scribble at – poetry and I have trouble listening to it or reading it sometimes. True confession. Until I get in the groove, getting into the groove can be hard. Listening can be difficult. Reading with comprehension takes time. Maybe I am fighting myself, working too hard. Maybe I have more to learn. Maybe I need to relax. It’s easy to write relax into poetry – that line is a bit poetic – but relaxing can be a struggle without a guide. Maybe reading, period, much less reading poetry, is hard as we approac...
