September 11, 2015 [5]
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“Finding that sweet spot, that balance, that’s what we are looking for with homelessness.” – Auburn City Councilmember John Holman
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All thumbs with this texting thing I sense a move afoot to make me appear grouchy and less than Mr. Cool and up with the times. How ridiculous is that … me … Mr. I am Sunshine. Let me present the complaint without distortion or twisting any facts. I have been using the texting feature on my magic talk box more lately because certain young women in my office who shall go unnamed, we will refer to them as Sarah and Rebecca, and my daughter, who shall not go unnamed, Katy, and her little Yorkie from the underworld (apparently Katy’s demon Yorkie can use the stupid text thing better than me). Dennis Box
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Complaint No. 2 This is from me. How am I supposed to know about all those special weird unknowable things Sarah, Rebecca and Katy know and no one ever tells me? I spend all sorts of time studying indecipherable old things like Greek, but I have no idea what a ‘:)’ means or a ‘:P’ or the million other things they use to talk. Where did this language come from, and why do they get to know and I don’t? Maybe they find out in some secret classroom where you have to know the handshake and everyone wears funny hats and sits in tall wooden chairs with no cushions. [ BOX page 6 ]
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You can’t cherry pick facts and know whole story In response to a Sandra Gill’s letter (“Listening to what Rodney King said”, Sept 4, Reporter): Ms. Gill, I am not sure what your purpose is when you write letters like this to be published in the newspaper. However, I do know that when you cherry pick facts and assume that you have expressed the whole story you are only fostering misunderstanding. There are around 50 million black Americans in the United States, and we are not monolithic in our thinking or the way we live our lives, much like all Americans of all persuasions. Further, I’ll venture to say that 99 percent of the 50 million black folks in America have not shared space, nor
Letters policy The Auburn Reporter welcomes letters to the editor on any subject. Letters must include a name, address and daytime phone number for verification purposes. Letters may be edited for length. Letters should be no more than 250 words in length. Submissions may be printed both in the paper and electronically. Deadline for letters to be considered for publication is 2 p.m. Tuesday. have they had a conversation with Kanye West. So, the chance of him speaking for all of us is slim to none. In your comments about Officer Wilson, you left out the fact that Ferguson was the second police department that he was
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State must navigate unchartered school waters Try as it might, Washington just can’t get this charter school thing down right. For years, backers of this privately run, publicly funded model of educating endured rejection by voters worried that diverting public dimes in this manner might sink the state’s school system. The mood turned in 2012 when
billionaire believers of this education alternative put serious amounts of their money into helping pass Initiative 1240. An alliance of national experts hailed the measure as one of the best written charter school laws in the nation. Until last Friday. That’s when the state Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, struck Jerry Cornfield
“Are charter schools in our state unconstitutional?”
Complaint No. 1 I forget to check my text messages. Like I’m supposed to do this more than yearly. Katy said I had to set up some ear-throbbing sounds to tell me when to do what. OK, fine, I did as directed. The next day I forgot what I did and suddenly got all befuddled when foreign sounds starting pouring unannounced from my pocket. I thought I was Agent 86 and I tried to answer my shoe. Keep this information to yourself, please.
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down the law as unconstitutional and began the countdown to the legal extermination of nine charter schools serving 1,200 students. So now what? The Washington Charter School Commission held a special meeting Wednesday for commissioners to ponder the path of what-ifs ahead of them. “We need to remain focused,” executive director Joshua Halsey
fired from. You fail to consider that his employment history might be a contributing factor in his inability to be hired. In the case of the outrageous murder of Deputy Darren Goforth, you must have missed the large procession of black and white citizens marching, singing gospel songs and carrying signs, saying “love thy neighbor.” Sounds like an evocation of sympathy to me. How many black people have you asked about how they feel about the murder? It appears that you feel that the angst that black people feel in America is related solely to slavery. If that were the case, the whole issue of race in America could be wrapped in a nice little bow entitled “slavery ended a long time ago and you need to get over it.” That way, we can toss it to the side and stop talking about it. [ more LETTERS page 6 ]
said before the meeting. “These are real schools. These are real kids that are being impacted by the decisions made by adults.” Conversations are already occurring on how to keep schools open and fix the law. But first, the Attorney General’s Office and lawyers for initiative backers will try to convince the Supreme Court – or at least a majority – to reconsider and retreat from its original decision. That motion must be filed within 20 days of the ruling. Because it’s highly probable the [ more CORNFIELD page 6 ]