Opinion
Everett School District should allow graduates to wear regalia
My name is Lanie Thompson, and I am a current senior at Everett High School. I’ve served on…
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Making college affordable key to our future
The cost of attending college is prohibitively expensive. This barrier to entry to education perpetuates inequality, hinders economic…
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Kristof: If slowing Gaza aid isn’t criminal, it’s unconscionable
The allegations against Israel’s Netanyahu center on Israel’s throttling of aid into a starving Gaza.
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Burke: Torrent of lies doing what’s intended; wearing us down
When media outlets stop bothering to check the facts that leaves it to us to question the falsehoods.
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Editorial: Leave port tax issue for campaign, not the ballot
Including “taxing district” on ballot issue to expand the Port of Everett’s boundaries is prejudicial.
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Ross Douthat: This trial isn’t going to cost Trump many voters
To most observers, a conviction will seem either a minor offense or an overreach of prosecution.
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Kristof: Israel can abandon hope if it invades Rafah
Further deaths of civilians to get at Hamas is likely to create a new generation of Palestinian fighters.
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Krugman: Trump only Exhibit A for the pettiness of the powerful
When wealth no longer satisfies, the powerful elite look for adulation, to the disadvantage of all others.
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Choice in November is between democracy, autocracy
The country belongs to the people and in November they can choose what they want it to be.
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Opposing Israel’s Netanyahu isn’t antisemitic
I support the demonstrations against Israel’s Benjamin Netayahu. Counter to what the media and President Biden will have…
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Trump is being pursued in court because he can win
It is so obvious that President Biden, the Democrats and much of the media fully believe that Donald…
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Neither party showing leadership on fossil fuels
On the heals of the Mar-a-Lago gathering — where 20 elite oil executives including Gov. Doug Burgum from…
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Charles Blow: Trump remains at war with the U.S. Constitution
His threats of deportation and violence against peaceful protesters, though vague, can’t be ignored.
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Goal isn’t to ban plastic but to use much less of it
A recent letter lauded the use of plastic in health care. Plastics are also used in many other…
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Recycle that uncivil tone along with your plastic
I write to request two things: that writers of letters the editor of The Herald use a civil…
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More races to vote in besides U.S. president; please vote
I am hoping most people will vote in the next election. I know that neither candidate for president…