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America has always been a maritime nation, and in the Pacific Northwest the resurgence of the maritime industry is helping to lead our economic recovery. Today maritime activities in Pierce County alone support more than 43,000 jobs.
We are nine retired Lutheran ministers in the Gig Harbor area, urging readers not to sign the anti-same-sex marriage petition drive or to vote against Referendum 74 if it appears on the November ballot.
What one local headline on May 9 exuberantly trumpeted as President Barack Obama’s “bold, risky shift” in deciding to back same-sex marriage was neither bold, risky nor a shift.
Twenty years ago, at a lightly attended legislative meeting in Olympia, a state senator said, “When the big dog dies, the fleas have to find another place to go.”
We ask the National Guard to fight our wars and protect us from domestic disasters. Its members have done so with extraordinary sacrifice and valor. Now the Pentagon is trying to balance the defense budget on the backs of the Air National Guard, and our guardsmen and women need us to fight for them.
The year 2008 seems like only yesterday, and yet it’s election season once again. However, judging by the speeches Barack Obama has just delivered to kick off his campaign, he would prefer we forget that four years have passed since the last the last time the American people selected a president.
One meal can make a difference in someone’s life, and each and every one of us has the power to provide it.
‘The dark side – that’s what we do.”
Last week the governor signed a state capital budget that has been described as a jobs package, one that will put 18,000 folks to work.
Anyone who sees the recent Secret Service misconduct in Cartegana, Colombia, as embarrassing and not as an outrage and serious security breach knows little about terrorism.
In Tacoma, we have a shining example of what public education can accomplish, even when faced with the thorniest problems. It’s called the Lincoln Center, and its story should be a model for how we move forward to improve schools around the state.
DEXTER B. GORDON AND KARYN OSBORNE
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In the vast repertoire of human actions, there are few as disturbing as suicide. As such, it is too often viewed as a stigma, a crime against the community as much as a crime against oneself.
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