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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.
R andy Dorn’s timing is both politically astute and all wrong.
“It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.”
Lakewood officials are absolutely right to challenge the state’s proposed Point Defiance bypass project that would send Amtrak passenger trains hurtling through the city at 79 mph. They would be seriously remiss if they didn’t.
No doubt about it, the Tacoma School District needs to get its school renovation program back on track.
Pierce County is facing a hard-knocks budget that would send more people to the unemployment line, give thieves a freer reign and stymie efforts to ensure timely justice.
The Obama administration’s Race to the Top initiative has done Washington a painful favor. It has exposed just how hostile the state’s K-12 establishment has been to genuine education reform.
Few things speak as emphatically as a 9-0 decision from the Washington State Supreme Court.
Radical jihadism and moderate Islam are two different things. But if anti-Muslims tend to equate the moderates with the jihadists, the hypersensitive can make precisely the opposite mistake – with fatal consequences.
The Pierce County Council’s determination to get rid of a Superior Court seat is looking less wise by the day.
South Sound voters reaped an unusually rich crop of new officeholders last week.
Drug court is one of the best ideas ever to hit Pierce County’s criminal justice system. It’s just been joined by another great idea: veterans drug court.
Failing to disclose public records can get expensive, as the state keeps finding out.
The resignation of Judge Michael Hecht Monday didn’t just rid Pierce County Superior Court of a malodorous scandal. It quickly exposed serious fault lines in county government.
The distinction of being the first state in the nation to approve equality for same-sex couples was supposed to go to the live-and-let-live state of Maine. Instead, it will belong to Washington.
Health care reform wasn’t on Tuesday’s ballot, but it might as well have been.
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