Bus free ride. Cartoon by Frank Shiers for Oct. 1.
Rosemary McAuliffe has been a supporter and advocate for positive outcomes and progress in the greater Northshore area for many years. She is energetic and tireless. Even before she was a Washington State Senator or a member of the Northshore School Board she worked in this community in support of children, business, and the arts.
Education in this State, as in so many other states across this nation, is suffering from a plethora of problems. Among them are lack of appropriate and effectively focused funding, together with the unwillingness to objectively address the many operational issues hamstringing efforts to improve the delivery of first class education to our students.
The growth and development that Bothell has experience in the recent past is encouraging for the city’s economic health. However, with development comes increased traffic volumes and congestion.
Frank Shiers’ editorial cartoon from the Sept. 21 issue of the Bothell-Kenmore Reporter correlates the destructive wildfires sweeping across central Washington to the political uprising in the Middle East surrounding the U.S. Embassy.
When I took over the Bothell-Kenmore Reporter editor’s seat 5 ½ years ago, I was thrilled to be back in the area full time after working out of the company’s Bellevue and Kent offices for a few years.
Frank Shiers’ editorial cartoon from the Sept. 7 issue pokes fun at the technological advances now available to students.
Bothell is a great place to be a senior.
Here are some reasons: We’ve got a terrific senior center, several senior-friendly living communities, excellent health care within easy reach and more.
What’s satisfying about this job is that I get to step into another world every once in a while. One that’s not too far away from my own, but just around the corner.
Drive near the Thrashers Corner area of Bothell, look for the Sikh Centre of Seattle sign — jutting out from the tree-lined road at 20412 Bothell-Everett Highway — and turn in and be welcomed into a community that maybe you didn’t know much about.
According to the Pew Research Center, voters are more polarized along partisan lines than they have been at any point in the past 25 years. The deciding factor in this year’s election will be if independent voters are adequately informed about the policies and backgrounds of candidates they’re asked to vote for.
Looking back on my childhood, I always had what I needed on the first day of school and every day throughout the year.
Not having a backpack full of school supplies was never an issue for me.
There were times when I noticed some of my classmates that didn’t always have everything that I did in the classroom.
I would share a pencil here and a piece of paper there, but never really thought much about it.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of most of President Obama’s health-care law doesn’t end the discussion of health care in this country. Fixing the system has a long way to go.
Frank Shiers editorial cartoon, July 20 issue: Inslee, McKenna, Obama, Romney.
July 6 editorial cartoon/ Frank Shiers: It’s gotta be tsunami debris… That’s some invasive species!
Gov. Chris Gregoire has announced an emergency action to slow the spread of whooping cough (pertussis) in the state. I recently declared that whooping cough had reached epidemic levels in Washington. If the pace continues, we’re headed toward the highest number of reported cases here since the early ‘40s.
I’m a cool, calm and level-headed person. I’m also a trusting guy and I always look for good qualities in others and remain positive in any situation I’m faced with.
However, I’m steamed nowadays — and worried about what’s going on around me … and all of us.
Frank Shiers cartoon: OK, that’s it! School’s out. Have a great summer, kids.
What summer?
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization did itself a lot of damage nationally with its attempt to pull funding from Planned Parenthood. Locally, the ramifications are being felt as registration for the Race for the Cure event is down by 44 percent.
Leaning against the wall of Seattle’s Paramount Theatre on May 10, I watched with pride as my Inglemoor High biology teacher of two years, Sue Black, strode confidently onto the brightly lit stage, greeting reporters and audience members at a President Obama campaign fund-raiser. I listened, enrapt, as she told of her battle with cancer and I cried as the President embraced her, the emotion of the past week overwhelming me as I sat witness to my teacher turning the floor over to the most powerful man in the world.
As an editor, reporter and photographer at the Bothell-Kenmore Reporter, I’m always aware of what goes on around me. I’ve constantly got my ears and eyes wide open for stories to share with our readers. Even when I think I might take off my journalist’s cap for an hour or two to attend a luncheon, I’m always on the clock. I just can’t help it. Any journalist will tell you the same thing.
