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Jerry's View
The glass and the rubber thingy
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Bookshelf
Books to save you money
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 Freedoms Past
When all kids could explore the area
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Plant of the Month - Vine Maple
The last of the leaves are falling from the vine maples. The vine maple is a cousin to the Big Leaf Maple. Walking around our West Seattle parks, it is amazing to see the size of some of the leaves that have fallen from those big trees. But I like the grace and delicacy of the vine maples, and often their colors are brighter and more varied and vibrant than those of Big Leaf Maples. In that, they remind me of Japanese maples.
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Car Counselor: Help! My car resembles a swimming pool!
Opening your car door in the morning and seeing a pool of water is a horrible feeling, but we have entered the time of year where automotive repair shops, body shops and detail shops begin seeing cars that have accumulated a large amount of water on the inside.
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Common Cents: Will presidential election affect your investments?
Provided by Jon Gerhardt
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Common Cents: "Checklist" for surviving a financial crisis
Provided by Jon Gerhardt
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Keepin' It Real With Renae: Is underage drinking a problem?
The Southwest Healthy Youth Partnership is interested in getting feedback from community members about the attitudes and perceptions of underage youth using alcohol and/or other drugs. We realize that you are a valuable source of information and the information will help the coalition to address alcohol and drug use in the community.
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Editorial (top)
Forget downtown Seattle
Residents of West Seattle would be best advised to support local businesses and forget about going downtown on any but the most important trips because it soon may become too expensive and take far too long to go there.
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Letters To The Editor (top)
Expert witness comments
I read with interest your article about the lawsuit between two restaurants over their purported similar trade dress, or appearance.
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She does care
Wow - the rebuttals! I was looking forward to the responses and I surely got them. Thank you.
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Park information overlooked
The "No Change to Park" campaign was present and large at the 'public workshop' for California Place Park. Steve Shay numbered the attendance at 80 when, in fact, it was closer to 100. The proponents who spoke for No Change outnumbered the playground supporters 3 to 1. Again, Shay states the $15,000 will install a "Playscape" on the site. This is not the case, as the $15,000 is for promotion and design only.
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Help get kids straight
Yes, it is the responsibility of the parents to raise their own kids but what happens to the kids who have irresponsible parents who just don't care about their own offspring (Letter, Nov. 5).
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A part of our community
Thank you for your editorial emphasizing the importance of patronizing our community of West Seattle merchants (Nov. 5).
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Which truth, Congressman?
In the Review and Outlook section of Friday's (Nov. 14) Wall Street Journal was an editorial which speaks to McDermott's plans to make serious changes to the 401(k). The editorial alludes to McDermott and company moving towards the nationalization or otherwise contradicting what McDermott said in his letter to the West Seattle Herald.
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Will 'big' people do it?
In the West Seattle Herald this week (Nov. 12) there was an article about King County employees having to take 10 unpaid furlough days to help with the 2009 budget deficit.
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Common ground on park
My hope is that through the design meetings the community is able to come together and see that our needs and desires are not diametrically opposed; in fact I believe we share significant common ground.
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Wish I said it
"Pray for those who don't like change." That is what she said. One black woman sitting among our white congregation.
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Letter offensive, disturbing
(The) letter implying that No One Cares (Nov. 5) was both offensive and disturbing.
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Opinion (top)
Open Says Me
I had to buy a new cell phone
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Op-Ed
'Stop lying to Fremont'
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