Wreaths Across America: Honoring Fallen Service Members
It happens each December: Volunteers and others place live wreaths on veterans’ gravesites in what has become a holiday tradition across the country, Wreaths Across America.
Day: May 23, 2025
Harry Vafias’ Imperial Petroleum profits sink as lower tanker rates pull down revenue
Softness at start of the quarter followed by better rates in March
Housing crisis: Kudos to Spain for Airbnb crackdown
Re: “Spain orders Airbnb to block nearly 66,000 holiday rental listings over rule violations” (May 19, Business): It was interesting to read what Spain is doing about the housing crisis. With over 321,000 licensed short-term rentals, the government is …
Report of a U.S. troop drawdown stirs alarm in South Korea
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Energy independence: Support collaborative approach statewide
Re: “This Seattle Democrat doesn’t know all that’s best for Eastern WA” (May 20, Opinion): As a Seattle resident, I found the Tri-City Herald’s editorial compelling. I share the heightened concern over Washington Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen’s…
🔴 Kim Kardashian robbers sentenced to up to 3 years in prison for Paris heist
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Strained relations: A tipping point in Gaza? An Islamist ‘threat’ to France, EU Elections
The first explicit threat of sanctions from the leaders of France, the U.K. and Canada if IDF troops don’t stop the renewed military offensive to take control of the whole of Gaza. It came after the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced …
Kim Kardashian robbers sentenced to up to 3 years in prison for Paris heist
A Paris court on Friday sentenced the accused in the 2016 heist of Kim Kardashian to up to three years in prison. Nine men and a woman were on trial for a heist during the Paris Fashion Week in 2016, when the thieves, dressed as police, forced their …
Gluesenkamp Perez: ‘Are we going to wallow in our purity?’
Re: “Gluesenkamp Perez won a Trump WA district. Now she faces leftist heat” (May 17, Local News): In the past two election cycles, U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez defeated a Republican candidate in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District — a district…
New area code: Thanks for the memories
Re: “New area code is a sign of the times” (May 15, Opinion): Good to hear from you 564, and welcome! Scooching over to make room, this absolutely-freaking-from-Seattleite feels warm and fuzzy telephone thoughts and thanks the Washington Utilities and …