Board of Contributors 2012

Swine flu summer could be prelude to a terrible winter

posted 07:00 AM 07/29

Have you ever had the flu? I don’t mean a weekend of vomiting or gastro-intestinal upset, but true influenza, the respiratory virus.

Life’s not simple when it comes to health care premiums

posted 11:37 PM 06/09

Make sedentary, overweight smokers pay more for health insurance because they cost more.

We view and value our natural world on a daily basis

posted 07:11 AM 04/22

Earth Day — today — was created in 1970 by Wisconsin state Sen. Gaylord Nelson to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s organisms and environment.

Far-right message dangerous propaganda for our planet

posted 09:29 AM 08/01

Once upon a time, when humanity was relatively young, people thought they could do anything they pleased to the Earth, the air and the water. OK, our continuing irrigation has made this oncerich farmland so salty that our crops won’t grow here anymore, but, heck, we’ll just move on to some other place. Yes, this water tastes bad and might be making us sick, but we’ll find some other water. And since there were relatively few people, their total impact upon the Earth was negligible.

Settle down, kids, or I’ll make you watch ‘Poltergeist’

posted 08:22 AM 06/27

I’ve come to terms with the fact that I can’t handle scary movies. It’s sad I know. I thought I could handle them until I watched “The Grudge” at a movie night a few weeks back, and ended up waking up my mommy at 3 a.m. because I was convinced there was a face-eating devil child in my closet.

Identity crises, made right here in Olympia

posted 07:45 AM 08/22

My wife doesn’t like to shop. I suspect that many men wish they could say that.

Years of education and still so much to learn

posted 10:53 AM 12/28

I consider myself to be a reasonably well-educated person. I was salutatorian of my high school graduating class. I graduated with honors from a prestigious liberal arts college and continued on for an advanced degree. For more than 30 years I taught high school English.

Racism - even the unwilling sort - is in all of us

posted 01:01 PM 04/28

The journey into adulthood is about to begin in earnest

posted 06:57 AM 08/08