12-7-2001
My Turn –
Don’t look now, but your library is under attack
By Bill Hoke
Pardon the hysteria, but your/our local library is under attack. As you may know, the nine branches of the Kitsap Regional Library offer both filtered and unfiltered Internet access...   (Full Article)
12-7-2001
Point - Counterpoint
Charter has one man, one vote mandate
By Shirley Brown, Chair - Kitsap County Republican Party
This charter is a wonderful opportunity! How many times do we get to be part of the process of actually having a say in the FORM our government will take...   (Full Article)
12-7-2001
Point - Counterpoint
Status quo is better than Charter
By Jim Sharpe
I voted for a charter proposal a year ago because I thought maybe we should have five County Commissioners instead of three. I wasn’t convinced, but I was willing to take a look...   (Full Article)
12-7-2001
Letters To The Editor - Charter
The Freeholders have released a draft of a Charter for Kitsap County, (www.kitsapgov.com/freehldr), that is well done and makes our County government more representative to the citizenry, improves efficiency, restores county employee morale, establishes the citizens additional rights for better control of our County government, and will suit us well for the 21st Century...   (Full Article)
12-7-2001
Letters To The Editor - Salmon
Recently, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) decided that it would not appeal United States District Court Judge Michael Hogan’s ruling on salmon. Judge Hogan ruled that unless NMFS could show that wild Coho salmon and hatchery Coho salmon are genetically different, all Coho salmon must be counted...   (Full Article)
11-6-2001
Will retired Microsoft exec take on Locke?
By Adele Ferguson
Bob Herbold. Remember the name. This may be the guy the Republicans send up against Gov. Gary Locke in 2004.

That’s if they can talk him into it, and they’re already on the job...   (Full Article)

11-6-2001
Letters To The Editor - The case against 4(d)
At the Oct. 15 Kitsap County Commissioners meeting, Mr. Ron Ross requested that the Kitsap County Commissioners consider delaying the 4(d) Exemption work until the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) responds to a legal request to delist salmon from the Endangered Species List...   (Full Article)
11-6-2001
Letters To The Editor - Indignation
This letter is in reply to Richard Horn’s recent “Our Views” editorial in The Sun, titled “Its not easy being a Green Republican...   (Full Article)
11-6-2001
Letters To The Editor - Political Correctness
For the last forty or fifty years we have been subjected to and manipulated by a liberal movement nationally and locally promoting political correctness and downright lies. They also conjure up “incidents” to destroy good people, for example the recent attack on Commissioner Jan Angel...   (Full Article)
11-6-2001
Letters To The Editor - Column about Sept. 11
We were in Mexico on September 11 and experienced similar feelings and outward pourings of loving wishes from our southern neighbors. I think your column expresses the joy of new thought and potentiality of our human existence. Thank you for your insights and investments in hope and love.

Becky Wiles
Bremerton
10-5-2001
Was Russia involved?
By Adele Ferguson
What happened on the East Coast, I asked my high ranking military friend...   (Full Article)
10-5-2001
Letters To The Editor - Thank You AWB
Shoreline property owners in Kitsap County, you need to get out your checkbook. You owe a big debt to the Association of Washington Business (AWB) and 54 plaintiffs including 27 of Washington State’s 39 counties (Kitsap not being one of them), and five cities (none in Kitsap)...   (Full Article)
10-5-2001
Letters To The Editor - Bainbridge arrogrance
“There they go again!” The Democrats want to rule by intimidation, scare-mongering and berating fellow citizens. This was evidenced by a letter printed in a newspaper recently. The angry writer declared that any new Kitsap County Charter which includes commissioners to be elected by district, will be defeated by Bainbridge Island Democrat voters...   (Full Article)