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Opinion

Student success demands support | As I See It

The M & O levy provides 20 percent of the district’s budget; let’s renew it

Opinion

Unfair advantage at work in the skies | As I See It

Does EMS dispatch favor Island Air ambulance service over Airlift NW?

Opinion

Time to mend some fences | Editorial

This isn’t the first time complaints have been voiced against the sheriff’s department.

Cartoon musings on local news and events are published periodically in the Journal of the San Juan Islands

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Journal political cartoon; January 8 edition | Opinion

Cartoon musings on local news and events are published periodically in the Journal of the San Juan Islands,…

Far right; deputies question the driver of a trailer decorated with holiday lights and carrying Christmas carolers during a traffic stop in downtown Friday Harbor on Christmas Eve.

Opinion

Christmas Eve traffic stop? The driver’s side | Opinion

“We were just carrying on our family tradition of caroling through Friday Harbor on Christmas Eve,” Mark E.…

Duncan Wilson

Opinion

Tops from 2013? not all doom and gloom | Guest Column

Reading the year in review, editorials, Rants and Raves… it seems that there was nothing but depressing news…

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Appalled by Christmas Eve excess | Guest Column

The other officer held the lunging officer back with two arms on him and his head down like…

Clematis vitalba

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High time to battle against ‘The Beard’ | Guest Column

Prolific, resilient, invasive, Clematis vitalba remains a deadly threat to trees

Naval Air Station Whidbey Island anticipates arrival of 10 new Growler fighter aircraft

Opinion

Thunder of Navy jets; sky’s the limit? | Guest Column

Flights from Whidbey poised to grow, comment on impact statement by Jan. 3

F. Milene Henley

Opinion

How are we doing? Breathing easier | Editorial

We’re on track to meet budget thanks to an ‘extraordinary” July, ‘excellent’ August

Stephanie Buffum Field

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More than ‘vista’ marred by clearcut at Mar Vista | Guest Column

As is so visible in the pictures of the newly cleared and straw covered shoreline, stewardship ethics and…

Opinion

Real problem? Stifling land-use rules, not a lease at First & Spring | Guest Column

In December of 2012, our lame-duck county council passed a very hotly contested critical areas ordinance. They rushed…

Opinion

What’s on your ‘top ten’? | Editorial

The dark days of December are also a good time for taking stock of the many events that…