By Rasham Nasaar The taxpayers of Bainbridge Island deserve to know the truth about why the city is on track to spend $23 million on… Continue reading
By Tom Purcell Is the world finally coming to grips with the wrongs I endured as a child growing up in the 1970s? I came… Continue reading
By Don C. Brunell America’s media is suffering from a truth deficit leaving many to wonder where to go for honest, reliable and accurate information.… Continue reading
By Christine Flowers I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like their colors, ma’am I only sup on rainbow fish I… Continue reading
By Fran Korten The City Council is about to hold an important study session. On March 16 at 5 p.m. the session will be on… Continue reading
By Leslie Schneider and Kirsten Hytopoulos The police-court facility is the biggest capital project to be undertaken by the city of Bainbridge Island in decades.… Continue reading
These days the mere mention of tax incentives for factories touches off a major firestorm in Seattle, and you’d better be looking for an expeditious… Continue reading
Get this: A study by McGill University has found that more money does not necessarily make people in low-income countries happier. I like more money… Continue reading
By Christine Flowers Iwas once fired by an employer because they did not like the way that I tweeted. They had no problem with the… Continue reading
It’s February. It’s cold. To fend off the winter blahs, I dream of one day retiring to a warm beach, where I’ll stand in the… Continue reading
By Christine Flowers One of my favorite allegories is the one about the frog in the pot of water, who got used to the slowing… Continue reading
Aguy once wrote that, for sheer perverse entertainment, “nothing beats the current spectacle of Republican supplicants quaking at the feet of their master. Nothing better… Continue reading
Presidential honeymoons have remarkably different lengths. President Obama’s honeymoon, at least with the press, began the day he announced his candidacy, Feb. 10, 2007, and… Continue reading
Events on Capitol Hill and the Southwest border are unfolding at a dizzying pace. The outcome of those developments will have long-lasting and irreversible effects.… Continue reading
Kids need to be in school. This seems to be an epiphany for some who, a year ago, suggested sending a teacher into a classroom… Continue reading
Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson’s $33 billion plan to remove the lower Snake River dams is unwise. However, if he pushes it, he needs to include… Continue reading
Bainbridge Island government has some explaining to do. It came to light in 2006 that BI was in need of a new police department. Here… Continue reading
Why would any company spend $5.5 million for a 30-second Super Bowl ad that leaves viewers perplexed as some glitzy and abstract commercials did? After… Continue reading
Already robust levels of hiking, camping, boating and every other kind of outdoor recreation in our region has exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic as many… Continue reading
In 1971, Oregon was the first state to enact a “bottle bill.” Fifty years later, Portland could become the first city to approve a sweeping… Continue reading
