After spending the past several weeks watching political Kabuki kooks find ways to be silly and not govern, I needed some relief.
According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the third-leading cause of death for young people ages 15 to 24, surpassed only by homicide and accidents.
No one could be happier to see state lawmakers wrap up and head home than Gov. Jay Inslee.
Frank Shiers Jr.’s editorial comic, week of March 21, 2014.
Norilsk is Russia’s most polluted city. It reminds you of an America mining town a century ago. It is pockmarked with tall smoke stacks belching out nearly 500 tons each of copper and nickel oxides a year, along with two million tons of sulfur dioxide, a key ingredient in acid rain.
According to the Humane Society, approximately 2.7 million pets are euthanized in this country every year. Another source says it’s 4 million. The vast majority of these animals would have made loving companions, if only someone had stepped in and adopted them.
As our elected officials look to the future and work to expand our economy, grow our tax base and create jobs, they need to be mindful that energy costs are a major expense.
Frank Shiers Jr.’s editorial comic, week of March 14, 2014.
For those keeping count, 11 had been added to the books as of Wednesday afternoon with dozens of bills still to be sent to Gov. Jay Inslee for his signing in the coming weeks.
Is the Puget Sound region – home to more than 4.5 million people – adequately prepared for a disaster?
My daughter, Katy, exercises her free speech on me all the time. I never knew I was such a dumbwad until she learned to free speech me when she was two. Now I get free speeched all the time.
Many started experiencing fatigue soon after casting a vote in a November special session to extend tax breaks which could save the company an estimated $8.7 billion on future sales of the new 777X jetliner.
Frank Shiers editorial comic, week of March 7, 2014.
House Bill 2573 gives the department until Nov. 1 to come up with recommendations for regulating this form of theatrical wrestling.
Frank Shiers Jr.’s editorial comic, week of Feb. 28. 2014.
The Skagit River bridge replacement is an example of how things can get done quickly and effectively.
Frank Shiers Jr.’s editorial comic, week of Feb. 21, 2013.
“On Sept. 20, 2006, the King County Journal published an essay I wrote on the death penalty. In that essay, I recommended a moratorium on capital punishment while we studied and debated the law’s efficacy and efficiency.”
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are finding themselves once again falling down a rabbit hole in their Sisyphean efforts to cure the real and perceived ailments of the state’s public schools.
Where there is life, there is risk. That’s not some insightful quotation, it’s just a fact.