Herald Forum

Forum: Setting our schedules, virtues, values and morality

Our lives depend on calibration, aligning our clocks to other timepieces. But how do we know the time?

 

Forum: Too much of health care spending isn’t used for health care

Our system wastes money on a fight between insurers and providers. We need a national health service.

 

Forum: County must protect wetlands that feed salmon, orca

Changing rules that would lift protections for wetlands would harm streams, rivers and Puget Sound.

 

Forum: Life as a northern girl, longing for a southern mood

Following a jazz guitarist to Arkansas may not have made me southern, but I kept a wisp of the accent.

Forum: The one thing that AI can’t replicate: our wondrous flaws

Anything that AI produces, such as music, is hollow in its perfection. Flaws breathe life into our work.

Forum: Drive for pitching speed troubles dad over injuries

More young baseball players are facing shoulder surgery as the sport pushes for high speeds and strikeouts.

Forum: New Herald columnist hopes to encourage dialogue, insight

Todd Welch is a Navy veteran and former member of the Lake Stevens City Council and will focus on local issues.

Forum: Finding acceptance, rather than shame in missing mark

When hopes for a personal goal fall short, we can choose guilt or accept the grace of learning from it.

Forum: Kept or not, making resolutions is a helpful process

The effort offers a chance to reflect on your time, your word, your attention and your connections.

Forum: ‘Stand-up Cult’ follows muffin tin liners, not one-liners

You can keep your air fryers; for kitchen aficionados, the ultimate customizable appliance is the mixer.

Forum: Set state DNR back on path to preserving resources

A recentering of needs must place more focus on the web of species that depend upon forest environments.

Forum: As Mukilteo diversifies, ts DEI panel works to value all

Its work, funded by a few thousand dollars, encourages conversations about an inclusive Mukilteo.

Forum: Veterans, others need alternatives in pain management

Opioid prescriptions can easily lead to addiction. Congress can encourage non-addictive options.

Forum: Changing Marysville school’s makeup would hurt students

Dropping sixth-grade students from 10th Street Middle School risks its success in academics and culture.

Forum: Club sports prompts dads’ debate on what’s healthy for kids

Parents are considering the trade-offs of club sports, who can play and how serious to take it all.

Forum: What are local governments getting from DEI efforts?

Businesses are scaling back diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Local governments should as well.

Forum: What to draw on in building a ‘cabinet’ of your own

Winter is an apt time to use darkness, disruption and decisions to evaluate and reassemble how things get done.

Forum: Giving thanks for response to food bank after storm

The community quickly answered the call when the bomb cyclone cut power to the Snohomish food bank.

Fred Mydske is been swimming in the Snohomish River for 36 weeks straight. He finds it good for his body and psyche.

Forum: Summer or winter, swim in Snohomish good for body, soul

Hoping to heal an injury, I began swimming in the river. Its cold is more noticeable in the summer.

Fred Mydske is been swimming in the Snohomish River for 36 weeks straight. He finds it good for his body and psyche.

Forum: In Empire of the Self, we get exactly what we deserve

That we only disagree as to whether that’s good or bad perfectly explains our problem.