Sensors show the snack bar’s closed, captain: Ferries on the Coupeville Keystone to Port Townsend run will help monitor water quality in Admiralty Inlet, thanks to sensors installed on their hulls.
Other new sensors on state ferries will measure levels of passenger alarm during unexplained engine shutdowns in the middle of Puget Sound.
Please show this column to your elderly relatives: Also in Street Smarts today, we get a refresher on how to navigate traffic roundabouts. Another resource is a series of videos about roundabouts, produced by the Washington state Department of Transportation.
What the state probably needs, however, is to get Glenn Beck to tape a public-service announcement reassuring viewers that roundabouts are not part of the sinister Agenda 21 plan for America.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1973, President Richard Nixon told an audience of newspaper editors, “I’m not a crook.”.
Noting that Nixon’s right hand wasn’t behind his back with fingers crossed, the editors took him at his word.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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