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Do you know how many children in Tacoma School District schools are homeless? Or how many people in Pierce County lived without heat or electricity this winter because their power was shut off?
If his warm greeting as you enter the downtown YMCA doesn’t get your attention, his story will.
KATIE BAIRD
What is true in most poor countries today was true in our own long ago: When elders can no longer support themselves or make sense of what is said around them, their children take care of them. This is an example of a social compact that balances out in the long run, since children expect their kids in turn to care for them during their waning years.
KATIE BAIRD
Teachers matter. That’s just common sense. I bet most of us can reflect back on those middle and high school days when we watched the second hand, seemingly in slow motion, tick away the interminable seconds of a boring class, or those times when an effective teacher launched us into a spirited debate that spilled over into the lunch hour and maybe even our homes.
KATIE BAIRD
Over the last six months, Washington’s unemployment rate has fallen from 9.3 to 8.2 percent. That’s terrific news. The same is occurring in states across the nation as employers are now hiring at a record pace.
KATIE BAIRD
In my last column I argued that the lifeline we’re throwing to those at the bottom rungs of society is increasingly beyond their grasp. Truth is, we also don’t provide them with many chances to rise up. With neither a hand out nor a hand up, too many citizens are consigned to pretty dim life prospects.
KATIE BAIRD
The Obama administration’s recently proposed budget continues what has become a troubling trend in federal policy. And it isn’t the growing debt I’m referring to.
KATIE BAIRD
In my last column (TNT, 2-1) I contended that Mitt Romney and others like him should pay more taxes, and that capital gains should be taxed at the same rate as income from work.
KATIE BAIRD
It shouldn’t be surprising that Mitt Romney pays only 15 percent of his income in federal incomes taxes. After all, he benefits from the fact that his income comes mostly in the form of capital gains – income from selling assets that have increased in value.
KATIE BAIRD
As readers of this newspaper likely know, last year Joint Base Lewis-McChord suffered a record number of suicides (TNT 12-30). Tragically, this increase reflects a nationwide trend; suicide rates in the Army have doubled over the last 10 years.
KATIE BAIRD
As our legislators return to Olympia, they must feel like the Bill Murray character in the movie “Groundhog Day.” Each year they show up at Olympia and find that – once again – revenue falls far short of expenditures. Let’s hope this year they find a way to awaken from this bad dream.
KATIE BAIRD
Many things are predictable this time of the year. Earlier commercial appeals to our Christmastime splurges, twilight that sets in seemingly when lunch is over, and proposals for a flat tax, such as we now have from both Herman Cain and Rick Perry.
The Iron Goat Trail traces the route the Great Northern Railway took in opening up the Pacific Northwest. The original railroad grade was used from 1893 to 1929. When a new tunnel was completed down the hill, the old roadbed became surplus and has been turned into a day-in-the-woods history experience.
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