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Letters to the Editor - Dec 31, 2003
You didn't mention "how well the Stryker brigade has done despite their loss, how well all the troops have done with all the loss of life."

Letters to the Editor - Dec 24, 2003
"There must be a better way to govern this country than to keep turning it over to Tweedledee or Tweedledum."

Letters to the Editor - Dec 17, 2003
"How can a woman simultaneously battle cancer and her medical bills and/or insurance company?"

Letters to the Editor - Dec 10, 2003
If we have supposedly attracted so many bright, well-educated young people to our area, why not finance a few of them?

Letters to the Editor - Dec 3, 2003
I think the quality of life interests who arent confirmed slackers are living a pre-bubble-burst pipe dream. . . .

Letters to the Editor - Nov 26, 2003
We are becoming a second-class higher education system. . . . The bill on a decade of tax cuts is coming due.

Letters to the Editor - Nov 19, 2003
. . . [I]f men did not want to sexually degrade women, society would not suffer the impacts of raped, battered, and dead women.

Letters to the Editor - Nov 12, 2003
"Ridgway's plea bargain . . . reinforces the logic that if you are going to kill one person, you might as well kill several others."

Letters to the Editor - Nov 5, 2003
"Platonic ideals are for idealists in their ivory towers. A realistic model of government has conflict and can deal with it."

Letters to the Editor - Oct 29, 2003
"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Letters to the Editor - Oct 22, 2003
Im glad to know we are hip enough to have a best place to pee in Seattle. . . . But did other readers miss the mention of our best book stores?

Letters to the Editor - Oct 15, 2003
I, too, lament the necessary loss of the King County Library Systems used-book sales. . . . I also miss grade school, my first apartment, and my 84 Honda. . . .

Letters to the Editor - Oct 8, 2003
Thinning these stands would create jobs and provide a continuing source of wood fiber that all of us use. Or does that just make too much sense?

Letters to the Editor - Oct 1, 2003
Kids with rocks and spray paint on summer break, chants and posters, and suicide as street theater are not going to bring down the WTO.

Letters to the Editor - Sep 24, 2003
Thank you, voters, for delivering a clear message that children arent worth a dime on your $4 latte.

Letters to the Editor - Sep 17, 2003
'It is time we got over the delusion that we in this country or state are more deserving of jobs than people in any other country or state.'

Letters to the Editor - Sep 10, 2003
"Jeez, years after the election and you can still count on the "Seattle Weakling" to be whinging about Ralph Nader and all those potential Democratic votes that got pissed away."

Letters to the Editor - Sep 3, 2003
'If Paul Allen was as civic-minded as painted, you'd think he'd happily give up a jet or yacht or two to prove his commitment.'

Letters to the Editor - Aug 27, 2003
I am a 77-year-old World War II machine gunner . . . fighting to protect Americas libertiesnot to put money into the presidents and his cronies pockets.

Letters to the Editor - Aug 20, 2003
If everyone gets busted eventually, it is hard to envision how marijuana has become our No. 1 cash crop in this country.

Letters to the Editor - Aug 13, 2003
Bush deserves a welcome to Seattle by anyone who has not been blinded by the flag-waving liars and destroyers of our image as Americans...!

Letters to the Editor - Aug 6, 2003
Only the thickheaded or willfully obtuse could say with a straight face they believed Extend the Monorail meant precisely and literally that. . . .

Letters to the Editor - Jul 30, 2003
It seems that the story on brainstorming moneymaking ideas for the monorail missed the all-time best idea. . . . Dont build it!

Letters to the Editor - Jul 23, 2003
"What does it say about a paper when the only consistently good staffer people can point to is a cartoonist?"

Letters to the Editor - Jul 16, 2003
"Mixing up Turks and Greeks generally goes over about as well as mixing up Hatfields and McCoys. . . . "

Letters to the Editor - Jul 9, 2003
Seattle finally had a chance to make a statement about the arts by erecting a world-class structure. . . . But they blew it.

Letters to the Editor - Jul 2, 2003
I think Boeing should go and take their do what we ask or else attitude with them.

Letters to the Editor - Jun 25, 2003
"If REI's not a true co-op and the majority of its members don't care and are satisfied with what they're getting, perhaps it doesn't matter."

Letters to the Editor - Jun 18, 2003
Is there anyone more dull than Joe Torre, except maybe Dr. Henry Kissinger?

Letters to the Editor - Jun 11, 2003
Every time I hear Rick Rizzs define the grand slam, I want to cut off my . . ."

Letters to the Editor - Jun 4, 2003
The Sparrow is more than just an idea; it is a real solution to air pollution and dependence on foreign oil.

Letters to the Editor - May 28, 2003
. . . [Mark D. Fefer] should get out of the kitchen and go back to reviewing jazz Muzakthe real Seattle sound.

Letters to the Editor - May 21, 2003
"I have seen the WASL-prep teaching material. . . . It is badly written, bizarrely complex, and largely incompressible. . . . Can the test be any different?"

May 14-20, 2003 - May 14, 2003
Were talking about four more years of Bush-appointed judges deciding cases brought by John Ashcrofts Justice Department. . . .

Letters to the Editor - May 7, 2003
Will giving slots to non-tribal casinos solve all of the states woes, no. But will it make the state money, yes!

Letters to the Editor - Apr 30, 2003
The day the Weekly or the Times gets a Pulitzer for uncovering the KCTS story is as likely as the day Mickey Mouse gets elected president. . . .

Letters to the Editor - Apr 23, 2003
The profits from my business have already been taxed during my lifetime by the feds, state, county, and city. Why again?

Letters to the Editor - Apr 16, 2003
'... Rick Anderson does a noble deed and reminds us how quickly todays men and women in uniform can become tomorrows pariahs. ...'

Letters to the Editor - Apr 9, 2003
"Wow, for someone who has 'never heard or read' what he is writing about, Knute Berger sure has a lot to say [Mossback, "Conservative Crybabies," April 2]. Perhaps if he actually knew something about his subject, he wouldn't sound so hysterical. . . ."

Letters to the Editor - Apr 2, 2003
'... There is nothing worse than a sensational claim that doesn't put the numbers in context. ...'

Letters to the Editor - Mar 26, 2003
'Geov Parrish's column about the death of Rachel Corrie sounds like the kind of deliberate, willful, one-sided, manipulative screed one would expect to find in Pravda. ...'

Room with a D骠 Vu - Mar 19, 2003
... As I read, I shook my head. The testimonials were the same 16 years later. ...

Letters to the Editor - Mar 12, 2003
'... One can legitimately oppose on moral grounds a war against Iraq, but to then desire the humiliation of the U.S. when such a punishing lesson can only be accomplished through the death and maiming of Americans is hypocritical. ...'

The ACT React - Mar 5, 2003
'Far too many boards in this town don't have a clue about fiduciary responsibility nor about their job descriptions as trustees.'

Letters to the Editor - Feb 26, 2003
"... I saw this great picture of ladies in London with hats and handbags and a carefully printed sign: 'Make tea, not war.'"

Letters to the Editor - Feb 19, 2003
"Thank God our president cares enough about my future grandchildren to rid the world of the evil trying to do us in."

Letters to the Editor - Feb 12, 2003
"My students were not taken in by Murrays political machinations. By the time we got to the bin Laden comments, we werent even really listening anymore. . . ."

"How dare Miller make fun of innocent children struggling to live through the daily humiliations and crimes of brutal Israeli occupation." - Feb 5, 2003

"There is more to equitable, interactive living than merely packing areas full of different ethnicities." - Jan 29, 2003

"It is easier to focus on an individual than to ask hard questions about what is going on in these institutions/offices." - Jan 22, 2003

" . . . Hearst has come out on top in the demise of joint operating agreements in both San Antonio and San Francisco. They've played this game before." - Jan 15, 2003

"From clear-cuts to strip mines, there seems to be no anti-quality-of-life issue for which Slade Gorton will not be the poster child." - Jan 8, 2003

Between closed libraries, closed community centers, and closed parks, I am beginning to wonder why I bother to live in the city at all. - Jan 1, 2003

To Do List

Monday, May 12

Dorothy Rissman
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Fetherston Gallery, Daily from Mon., April 21 until Sat., May 24, 11:00am

Correo Aereo
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Agua Verde Cafe and Paddle Club, Every week Monday, 6:30pm, free

The History of Fashion in Flight
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Museum of Flight, Daily from Sat., February 9 until Mon., June 2

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