Spread the word and the peanut butter too | Carter's Community
School is out, but thus far, due to the lack of sufficient resources, the Bonney Lake Summer Meals program will not be available this summer to serve meals on the Plateau to youth. I verified this with Bonney Lake Community Resources Director Stew Bowen Thursday after noting it on their website.
Smart phones and special homes | Our Corner
Another Father’s Day has passed and my kids have not placed me in a home for wacky fathers. I consider that a parenting success.
The relationship of wealth and power, miniaturized | Politics in Focus
When I taught sociology in high school, I employed something called a simulation as a class lesson. I divided the class into three groups. Each was given a mixed bag of colored chips: golds, reds and blues. The students didn’t know it, but I had added more gold chips to one bag than to the others. Golds had the highest value. Students could trade their chips with other teams, trying to improve their scores. I did this several times.
The politics of fixing bridges | Politics in Focus
Another bridge collapsed recently. This time it was on Interstate 5 just north of Mount Vernon. Fortunately, no one was killed, as occurred when the interstate overpass collapsed in Minneapolis a few years ago.
Chivalry may be dead indeed | Our corner
I happened to be dining at the Governor’s Mansion a few weeks ago …
Find help, from food banks to summer fun | Carter's Community
Summer is coming. You may hear such things as there’s nothing to do. I am bored. I am hungry. I don’t have gas to get me to work and I don’t get paid until next week. I can’t pay my utilities. I am a senior citizen who needs assistance. My husband drinks too much. It is time to go back to school and my kids have no clothes or school supplies. Can you help me?
Society of Professional Journalists calls on Attorney General to uphold government’s own media guidelines
Leaders of the Society of Professional Journalists expressed concern Friday about the possible weakening of existing Department of Justice guidelines governing investigations that involve the news media.
A civics lesson in community development | Carter's Community
What is the Community Development Committee (CDC)? It is a City Council subcommittee chaired by Councilman Randy McKibbin, and also comprised of Council members Jim Rackley and Katrina Minton-Davis. The committee has recently split in two. One meeting a month it talks about matters relating to building, zoning, signs, utilities and annexations. The other is the newly formed economic development part of the committee.
Can social media help stamp out bullying? | Our Corner
Recently a message was sent to one of our sister newspapers via Facebook regarding accusations of bullying at a middle school in a neighboring school district.
Two schools of economic thought inform modern political split | Rich Elfers
Two major theories have been battling in America: Keynesian Economic Theory and the Chicago School Economic Theory propounded by the late economist Milton Friedman. Their conflicting positions have struggled for dominance in fixing the economy for decades. Understanding these two views helps to clarify the differences between liberal and conservative economic thinking in America today.
Politics, a classic paradigm | Our Corner
I wrote last week about the Hollywood blacklist era in the 1950s. As I wrote in the previous column, my interest was first piqued when I did research for an Alger Hiss story.
Hiss was sent to jail for perjury after Whittaker Chambers named him as a communist before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
