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"Your Voice" features longer and distinctively personal commentary from readers on topics that don't seem to fit in a letter to the editor. Try to limit submissions to about 600 words.

Send proposed articles to chief editorial writer Patrick O'Callahan, The News Tribune, PO Box 11000, Tacoma, Wash. 98411 (or e-mail Patrick O'Callahan). Articles may be edited and republished in any format by The News Tribune.

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Opinion HEADLINES
Published July 5th, 2009 - 12:05AM
It is infinitely easier to keep a big employer in the region than to recruit a big employer from elsewhere. Yes, we’re talking about Boeing.
Published July 3rd, 2009 - 12:05AM
Thomas Jefferson – chief author of the Declaration of Independence we celebrate tomorrow – had a lot to say about an informed electorate. On one occasion, he wrote: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
Published July 2nd, 2009 - 12:05AM
What’s happening south of our state line is enough to make the likes of Tim Eyman, as well as a number of thwarted Washington Democrats, green with envy.
Published July 2nd, 2009 - 12:05AM
Taken too far, efforts to fix past racial discrimination tip over into reverse discrimination. But how far is too far?
Published July 1st, 2009 - 12:05AM
Let’s forget for a moment that U.S. troops didn’t leave Iraq on Tuesday, only the streets of its cities.
Published July 1st, 2009 - 12:05AM
Fourteen years ago, the Supreme Court of Washington heard arguments in a death penalty case, live on TVW. It has never looked back.
Published June 30th, 2009 - 12:05AM
If you were starting from scratch designing a 911 system for Pierce County, you’d never get the system the county is saddled with.
Published June 30th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Tacoma police say this is the year that they really will get tough with the pyromaniacs who turn neighborhoods into war zones.
Published June 29th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Rape and sexual abuse remain too much a fact of life behind bars.
Published June 28th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Pity the poor, rich, famous celebrity. Really.
Published June 26th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Some who die in war die quickly. Others take longer.
Published June 26th, 2009 - 12:05AM
The Tacoma School Board is happy with its superintendent hire, and it has reason to be. But the board shouldn’t stop expecting more.
Published June 25th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Seattle and Tacoma can’t help being neighbors, and they’ve also been friendly rivals at times. The “friendly” part has included an implicit gentleman’s agreement not to fire nuclear warheads at each other’s economic base.
Published June 25th, 2009 - 12:05AM
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg has a point, to a point.
Published June 24th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Does the Tacoma Police Department have too much money to throw around and too many officers at its disposal?

 
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