6-6-2002
Letters To The Editor - Kudos
I have finished reading the April edition from cover to cover and I commend you and your team for producing an outstanding journal of the holistic nature of Kitsap County. Your East Sound competition does a good job of presenting the business picture, but not the heartbeat or center of the community, the people who make it a place to live and to work...   (Full Article)
6-6-2002
Letters To The Editor - Telecommunications
Although it is understandable we need to improve our transportation systems and I support this, we must also keep the following factors in mind when going forward...   (Full Article)
6-6-2002
Letters To The Editor - Hummer
It was nice to see the article about your experience with the AM General Hummer. I own a 1999 Hummer and use it as an advertising tool for our business...   (Full Article)
5-3-2002
POLITICS
Why can’t they all just get along?
By Adele Fergusen
Why anybody would put any reliance in the political judgment of Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, is beyond my comprehension.

Isn’t this the guy who, as state Republican chair, squirreled away over $1 million in campaign donations in 2000 to pay cash for an office building in Olympia so he could move party headquarters there from Tukwila after the election...   (Full Article)

5-3-2002
Keeping Ergonomics in Perspective
By Don C. Brunell, President
Association of Washington Business
  A recent New York Times story on President Bush’s approach to ergonomics contained the following statement:

“The new policy addresses one of the worst safety problems in the American workplace — more than 1.8 million injuries, such as neck sprains and carpal tunnel syndrome that result each year from repetitive motions like lifting, bending and typing...   (Full Article)

5-3-2002
Letters To The Editor - Smart Growth
The “Speak Out” conducted by the county sought citizen input for preservation of Natural Resources through the “Smart Growth” process. County Commissioners presented “facts” to help guide input; specifically that large population growth (doubling in thirty years) and degradation of natural resources are inevitable...   (Full Article)
5-3-2002
Letters To The Editor - Defending Chopp
  The embittered ancient scribe aka Adele Ferguson picked an unlikely target for her most recent edition of rant and rave. In the April 2002 Kitsap Business Journal, Ms. Ferguson mistakenly alleges that House Speaker Frank Chopp had created mutiny within the ranks of his Democratic caucus. Pure poppycock. Plain and simple...   (Full Article)
5-3-2002
Letters To The Editor - Medical Care
When our local health-care provider recently cancelled its contract with the Medicare server, which we had subscribed to for a number of years, we were forced to find a new provider, which was located in a different town, twenty miles away...   (Full Article)
5-3-2002
Letters To The Editor - Trust Issue
Kitsap officials are concerned that people don’t trust them. They think if they just stick to the “facts,” the mistrust issue will go away.

NEWS FLASH: “Facts” are not the same thing as “truth.” Public officials and regulatory bureaucrats and even the media regularly spout “facts,” only to amend those “facts” or retract them: Ice age imminent. Hatchery salmon are not “real” salmon. “I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski...   (Full Article)

4-5-2002
POLITICS
Chopp stirs near mutiny in Olympia
By Adele Fergusen
The crew of HMS Bounty couldn’t have been any angrier or more disgusted with their skipper than the members of the state House of Representatives in Olympia over the performance of their Speaker, Frank Chopp...   (Full Article)
4-5-2002
Bad law and bad decisions threaten state’s economy
By Don C. Brunell, President
Association of Washington Business
Consider this: A truck driver in Kirkland was fired after he wrecked a company truck and was caught drinking and smoking marijuana on the job. Even though unemployment benefits are to be paid only to workers who lose their jobs through no fault of their own, bureaucrats at the state unemployment office decided to give him the money anyway...   (Full Article)
4-5-2002
Letters To The Editor - More Ted Nugent
One can almost hear each satisfied sniff as the perfumed prince of Port Ludlow chastises those ignorant heathens, Coppola and Nugent...   (Full Article)
4-5-2002
Letters To The Editor - More Ted Nugent
When you wrote your editorial quoting Ted Nugent’s “I’m a Bad American,” I knew at the time that he did not write it, but didn’t feel it necessary to correct you...   (Full Article)
4-5-2002
Letters To The Editor - More Ted Nugent
Mr. Hansten must have made every single person in Port Ludlow pretty darn proud of him after his detailed analysis of that Ted Nugent editorial piece. He sure showed that moron, pinko, commie, editor Coppola a thing or two about how smart people think! The next thing you know, they’ll be erecting a statute to Mr. Hansten — Port Ludlow’s resident literary genesis. Probably put it right down there by the mini-mart and gas station...   (Full Article)
4-5-2002
Letters To The Editor - Burn Ban
Apropos your story on the Burn Ban Campaign, Vol.15 No. 3, I submit the following: For two days, in mid-January, the local tree farm burned its post-Christmas slashings. The smoke was thick and heavy, hanging low in our woods, to the west...   (Full Article)
4-5-2002
Political Cartoon by Will Lloyd
4-5-2002
Letters To The Editor - Narrows Bridge
Wow! The Tacoma Narrows Bridge gets front-page headlines two days in a row. Has the press finally figured out that the Narrows Bridge Project is leading the debate in Olympia on how to pay for transportation improvements all across this state? Yes, statewide tolls are coming...   (Full Article)
3-8-2002
POLITICS
Do D’s have the political courage to fix the budget mess?
By Adele Fergusen
So the shortfall in the biennial budget has grown to $1.6 billion. Are we supposed to be surprised? Didn’t the 2001 Legislature admit that it spent millions more than was anticipated in revenue which I don’t know how they got away with when the law requires a balanced budget...   (Full Article)
3-8-2002
State lawmakers should not bury their heads in the sand
By Don C. Brunell, President
Association of Washington Business
Recently, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney gave a stirring speech describing the affects of globalization on American workers and the environment. I wonder if his constituents are listening...   (Full Article)
3-8-2002
Save us from out of town consultants
By Bill Hoke
The consultants are coming, and while we welcome their expertise, there is something they can do for us. An inevitable by-product of economic growth and building-land development are the consultants. They come to Kitsap, paid and unpaid, seeking to find out what’s going on here, and many are unabashedly open about asking dumb questions...   (Full Article)
3-8-2002
Letters To The Editor - Ted Nugent
Lary Coppola, apparently at a loss for his own words, presents instead an “angry white male” tirade by rock singer, Ted Nugent. Coppola suggests that people might object to Nugent’s lack of political correctness, but the problem with Nugent’s diatribe has nothing to do with that. The problem is that Nugent’s words are a brew of monumental ignorance, mean-spiritedness, and twaddle...   (Full Article)
3-8-2002
Letters To The Editor - Ted Nugent
No one can say it like Ted! No need to worry about offending some people with the Ted Nugent response to political correctness...   (Full Article)
3-8-2002
Letters To The Editor - The Business Journal
I just read the latest issue of The Kitsap Business Journal and was totally impressed! I very much enjoyed the articles on “Smart Growth” and the Growth Management Act. After ten years, we finally have some feedback, and what I read wasn’t positive. The costs for a home in North Kitsap went way up...   (Full Article)
3-8-2002
Letters To The Editor - Charter
I am disappointed the charter failed. To the many people from whom I solicited their desires, I voted as the majority of you asked in every instance. I have the satisfaction that I keep my word. I grieve for the good workable charter that would have long served the people of Kitsap County. It did not give any one group an exclusionary hold on power...   (Full Article)
3-8-2002
Letters To The Editor - Reliable information
Several days after the devastating terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, an e-mail was widely distributed and re-forwarded across the Internet. You may have received it...   (Full Article)