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    Gift advice for husbands: Accept that you are rockheads | GUEST COMMENTARY
    Gift advice for husbands: Accept that you are...
    By Dennis Box • December 23, 2015 5:40 pm

    By special Christmas spirit request from all the goddesses in the office and Ms. Vegan, I will give my last-minute advice on buying gifts for girlfriends, wives and all those who make life worth living.

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    I’ll text the buttermilk recipe | COMMENTARY
    I’ll text the buttermilk recipe | COMMENTARY
    By Dennis Box • September 11, 2015 6:17 pm

    I sense a move afoot to make me appear grouchy and less than Mr. Cool and up with the times.

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    You can’t whine if you don’t vote | COMMENTARY
    You can’t whine if you don’t vote |...
    By Dennis Box • August 21, 2015 3:54 pm

    So for all our kvetching it is best to remember, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars….”

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    Supreme Court levies $100,000 per day fine over education funding
    Supreme Court levies $100,000 per day fine over...
    By Dennis Box • August 13, 2015 6:11 pm

    The Court ruling stated the fine is to be placed into a “segregated account for the benefit of basic education.”

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    New verbals and nounettes to be considered for the dictionary | COMMENTARY
    New verbals and nounettes to be considered for...
    By Dennis Box • July 24, 2015 3:30 pm

    “As I scanned the list it occurred to me there are a number of words I know that for some reason are not in the Oxford dictionary.”

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    Newspapers will last because there will always be stories to tell | COMMENTARY
    Newspapers will last because there will always be...
    By Dennis Box • March 6, 2015 3:11 pm

    “I believe newspapers will be around because of the story. The form a newspaper will take I don’t know, but the story is the thing.”

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    County Council approves April property tax levy to replace emergency radio system
    County Council approves April property tax levy to...
    By Dennis Box • March 4, 2015 12:25 pm

    If approved, the April 28 levy lid lift will raise $273 million.

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    Feeling deflated? Keep your eyes on the skies for UFOs | COMMENTARY
    Feeling deflated? Keep your eyes on the skies...
    By Dennis Box • February 6, 2015 6:43 pm

    “At first I thought he wanted to talk about a problem in his neighborhood or with some goofball city rule. It took me a moment to get it through my thick fog that he was talking about a UFO sighting.”

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    Pocket girlfriend, you have my number | COMMENTARY
    Pocket girlfriend, you have my number | COMMENTARY
    By Dennis Box • December 12, 2014 5:21 pm

    “Miraculously the magic light in my phone figured out where I was going and a woman in white began talking to me. I couldn’t believe it. I found a girlfriend in my shirt pocket.”

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    Roger Maris never struck out in this kid’s eyes | GUEST COMMENTARY
    Roger Maris never struck out in this kid’s...
    By Dennis Box • October 24, 2014 6:20 pm

    “I’m not sure why Maris captivated me as a kid, rather than Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford or countless other baseball players.”

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    Call me an ol’ fogey, just don’t call me late for haying! | COMMENTARY
    Call me an ol’ fogey, just don’t call...
    By Dennis Box • August 15, 2014 5:09 pm

    “Since I have suddenly slipped down the slobbery slope of fogeydom, I will now embrace it.”

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    I’ll bet hairball Hal dialed that number… | COMMENTARY
    I’ll bet hairball Hal dialed that number… |...
    By Dennis Box • July 11, 2014 4:17 pm

    “I was tipped off to the plot when my boneheaded phone made a call, for no apparent reason. This wasn’t the first time and I never know to whom or when it will strike.”

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    Darwin says I am in charge, not Yodie the Yorkie | COMMENTARY
    Darwin says I am in charge, not Yodie...
    By Dennis Box • June 6, 2014 5:19 pm

    “Every time Yodie comes to terrorize me for a week or two, the first thing I do is show her Darwin’s book, multiple times. She apparently doesn’t read very well.”

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    All of life’s puzzles solved with cheese | COMMENTARY
    All of life’s puzzles solved with cheese |...
    By Dennis Box • March 28, 2014 7:33 pm

    After spending the past several weeks watching political Kabuki kooks find ways to be silly and not govern, I needed some relief.

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    Goofy apps leave me speechless | COMMENTARY
    Goofy apps leave me speechless | COMMENTARY
    By Dennis Box • March 7, 2014 6:52 pm

    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.

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    Let’s be clear: Try your best to not say what you mean | COMMENTARY
    Let’s be clear: Try your best to not...
    By Dennis Box • November 29, 2013 6:14 pm

    I have always been fascinated by words and usage. I can often tell what a speaker or writer doesn’t want me to know by the duck-and-dodge words and usage.

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    Kindergarten/Politics 101:Don;t promise what you can’t deliver | COMMENTARY
    Kindergarten/Politics 101:Don;t promise what you can’t deliver |...
    By Dennis Box • September 20, 2013 5:30 pm

    Voters would be best served if they know what an official can do and what they should not promise.

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    What’s more important, picking out CEOs or sheets? | DENNIS BOX
    What’s more important, picking out CEOs or sheets?...
    By Dennis Box • September 6, 2013 5:58 pm

    Forget newspapers, we need to consider bed sheets.

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    This is the view of a Seattle suburb from the bombardier's chair in the Liberty Belle.
    B-17: America’s flying fortress
    By Dennis Box • April 28, 2011 10:21 am

    Array

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    Maple Valley man charged with murder in fatal stabbing at Renton-area tavern
    Maple Valley man charged with murder in fatal...
    By Dennis Box • March 24, 2011 2:50 pm

    A 40-year-old Maple Valley man, Troy Allen Hewitt, was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder and first-degree assault in a death…

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