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    Articles by Howard Schonberger
    Hi-Dee Hi-Dee Hi-Dee Ho…Mullis “Canteen”  Dinner/Dance a blast | Column
    Hi-Dee Hi-Dee Hi-Dee Ho…Mullis “Canteen” Dinner/Dance a blast...
    By Howard Schonberger • June 25, 2012 9:24 pm

    Maybe it was the fact that Helen and I were sitting right next to the bandstand at Mullis, but the best thing that got to me was how Tom’s local band could have such a tremendous big band sound. When they wound up the evening with Cab Calloway’s music, I could have sworn I was in the Cotton Club listening to the crowd echoing to Cab’s leads, sung by Jimmy (hidee) Moe.

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    As Washington state gets out of the business of selling liquor
    Auction of FH liquor store license draws 12...
    By Howard Schonberger • March 31, 2012 5:37 pm

    The store has attracted 12 bids on the internet auction site Public Surplus. The current high bid, by someone using the bidding name “Altruism,” is $2,650. Bids are expected to rise significantly between now and April 20, when the auction ends, according to Liquor Control Board spokesman Brian Smith.

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    Journal columnist Howard Schonberger
    The Super Pac is the greatest threat to...
    By Howard Schonberger • March 5, 2012 11:26 pm

    My mother, Ann, would be shocked to know how few people go to the polls (even if they only have to vote by mail). But worse, she would shudder to hear how easy it is to buy an election under the present “donation” laws, whereby the Supreme Court ruled that there is no reason to limit the money that unions and corporations can spend on their candidate.

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    Journal columnist Howard Schonberger
    Olympia? Too many chiefs, not enough revenue |...
    By Howard Schonberger • February 3, 2011 7:47 pm

    Eureka! I remembered something that happened during the Great Depression.
    Senator George W. Norris, a great legislator during the New Deal years, had long felt there was no need to have two legislative bodies in government.

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    A funny thing happened on the way to...
    By Howard Schonberger • April 29, 2010 6:58 pm

    I hated to go to the Lions Club that day but I did my duty, stopped at the bank ATM and started to the Legion Hall. Suddenly, my one good eye started to flash on and off.

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    I’m convinced we need to approve the M&O levy | Ferry Home Companion
    I’m convinced we need to approve the M&O...
    By Howard Schonberger • January 18, 2010 10:03 am

    Tuesday, Jan. 12, the San Juan Lions Club hosted San Juan Island School District Superintendent Walt Wegener and school board member Brent Snow to present their views on the M&O Levy coming up for vote on Feb. 9. Snow, who is manager of Roche Harbor when he is not devoting time to family and all sorts of community causes, kicked off what he called the “pony and dog show.” He was most persuasive.

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    Organizations resist ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to land use regulations in San Juan County
    Organizations resist ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to land use regulations...
    By Howard Schonberger • November 10, 2009 7:22 pm

    A perceived one-size-fits-all approach to land use regulations in San Juan County is meeting stiff resistance from two growing groups in the islands — the Common Sense Alliance, headed by Planning Commissioner Mike Carlson, and the Citizens Alliance for Property Rights, directed by Frank Penwell.

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    The cast of 'Rabbit Hole': Standing from left
    Island Stage Left’s production of ‘Rabbit Hole’ is...
    By Howard Schonberger • November 4, 2009 3:57 pm

    What a wonderful job Director Helen Machin-Smith has done with Island Stage Left presentations through the years. “Rabbit Hole,” the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and five Tony awards, now being performed to perfection by a cast of five actors — three of them professional — is solid proof of that accolade.

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    ‘The Odd Couple’: Another big hit for director...
    By Howard Schonberger • October 8, 2009 4:07 pm

    Thanks to director Andrew V. McLaglen, a marvelous array of local talent and the great theater our community has generously established, we now have a boffo performance of a play by the most successful playwright in American theatrical history, Neil Simon. I kid you not: Our local performance of “The Odd Couple” excels the show I saw on the stage when it won all those Tonys, the great movie starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, the long-running TV comedy series, and, of course, the ABC cartoon series. Theater, anywhere, anytime, doesn’t get any better than this.

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    Howard Schonberger
    The more we can find out about what...
    By Howard Schonberger • August 4, 2009 4:39 pm

    We’re doing this for EVERYBODY’S GRANDCHILDREN, not just ours. The more we can find out about what is good for us and all creatures large and small, the better off we’ll be.

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    Howard Schonberger
    Sacrifices are still being made in name of...
    By Howard Schonberger • July 1, 2009 11:55 am

    Newspapers, schools, government … all are among the many institutions who are chided if they don’t fly the flag on Flag Day. We used to fly it at The Journal when our offices were on Guard Street, before moving to Mullis Street a few years ago. Only trouble, we were on the first floor and we lost a few flags.

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    Kate Schuman gives a stunning portrayal of the late Patsy Cline.
    ‘Always … Patsy Cline’: Schuman, Greene are bombshells...
    By Howard Schonberger • May 8, 2009 4:54 pm

    I was a bit ambivalent about watching a show about Patsy Cline, not being a strong country-western fan, although I remembered listening to a few of her songs back in the ’50s. I am now here to tell you that even if you never heard of her before, you will become an instant Patsy Cline fan if you attend director Merritt Olsen’s production at San Juan Community Theatre.

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    The new bridge of the San Juan Island Yacht Club
    A new era in journalism, starting right here
    By Howard Schonberger • April 7, 2009 8:21 pm

    Everywhere this old dinosaur goes these days, he’s confronted with condolences about the death of the newspaper business, the “fact” that the Internet is taking over, that you have to know texting and tweeting and Blackberry lingo to keep up with modern times. Well, as I did when radio was going to be our downfall, and then television, I feel sure, as my mother used to say, “This too shall pass” (TTSP to you tweetybirds). Why, just last Saturday night, I had a great example.

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