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The most notable results in the poll came in the question that asked “If the election for the United States Congress were today and the candidates were Republican Doug Cloud and Democrat Norm Dicks, for whom would you vote?” The answer options were “definitely for Cloud, leaning for Cloud, definitely for Dicks, leaning for Dicks,…

After listening to him speak, I can see why he keeps getting elected. Says all the right stuff.

As seen from the Kiana Lodge. Panorama courtesy of Auto-Stitch.

A logging truck accident in Mason County set off a chain reaction that left all of Gig Harbor and surrounding areas in the dark Thursday evening. The crash along U.S. 101 knocked down a power pole and some very powerful transmission lines. In turn, that caused an outage in the transmission systems at Tacoma Power’s…

“We protested when the government ran up trillions of dollars of debt. We sent e-mails when they nationalized health care. We asked them to get off the backs of small business so we could create jobs. We pleaded with our government to secure our border. And you know what? They heard us, and yet they…

What REALLY infuriates me about our medical system is this: 1. Insured Patient Sees Bill for $110k2. Insurance Company Pays reduced bill of $30k , as per their agreement with doctor/hospital/etc to pay money immediately in exchange for steep discounts. 1. UnInsured Patient Sees Bill for $110k2. UnInsured Patient doesn’t know they can try to…

Perhaps the most important caveat about Prop 19 is that it only legalizes marijuana under state law. The federal government’s prohibition will remain in place, so the federal government could still enforce that prohibition in California. This happened for medical marijuana under the Bush administration, and under the alcohol Prohibition of the 1920s and early…

Ask preschooler Zane Pike to write his name or the alphabet, then watch this 4-year-old’s stubborn side kick in. He spurns practice at school and tosses aside workbooks at home. But Angie Pike, Zane’s mom, persists, believing that handwriting is a building block to learning. She’s right. Using advanced tools such as magnetic resonance imaging,…

Looking out my back window today, I caught a coyote that is around the neighborhood. It’s about as big as a medium-sized dog with a puffy tail and short ears. He eventually went back into the woods…

Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), who gives his departing interns copies of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged,” told me today that the response to President Obama’s economic policies reminded him of what happened in the 52-year-old novel. “People are starting to feel like we’re living through the scenario that happened in ‘Atlas Shrugged,’” said Campbell. “The…