Lori Didricksen
Former Newsroom Assistant
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Safety Valve: Letters from our readers
Back to what? It’s a phrase we often hear during this election year: “We need to take our country back!” The question is, what do we want to take it back to?
Safety Valve: Letters from our readers
For those in need March is Red Cross Month in recognition of the work done by the American Red Cross in communities across the country and around the globe — and of how we depend on public support to help people in need.
Safety Valve: Letters from our readers
I wish to reassure some of your correspondents. I have lived in and traveled through several of the foreign countries and most states where same-sex marriage is recognized.
Street alert
For information on highway work or mountain passes, go to wsdot.gov or call 511. Slope work, Highway 97A, Rocky Reach Dam
Presidents Day: what’s closed
Here’s what’s open and closed for Presidents Day on Monday
Safety Valve: Letters from our readers
Vast consequences Town Toyota Center exists. The decision to build or not, made several years ago, is no longer an issue.
Safety Valve: Letters from our readers
For primary growth In economic development theory there are four ways of creating wealth in a community:
Safety Valve: Letters from our readers
Ignoring facts I was taken aback by Tracy Warner’s “Stopping us, one pipeline at a time” (Jan. 20). Surely, this is the Republican stance on the issue, but his thoughts are riddled with inaccurate assumptions.
Safety Valve: Letters from our readers
A high price Bravo to Kay Adam (The Safety Valve, Jan. 13). I would have loved to attend the Mannheim Steamroller concert at Town Toyota Center. Unfortunately, after retirement the stock market took a long-term plunge eating more than 50 percent of my hard-earned retirement. Social Security and a part-time job do not afford the $70 ticket price for my son and his three children. What a remarkable experience that would have been for all of us. A memory that would have lasted us all a lifetime.
Safety Valve: Letters from our readers
Governor misled I’m glad to hear that Gov. Gregoire has been soul searching, but I think her conclusion would have been different had she searched God’s word on the subject of gay marriage.