Port Angeles Vision

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This week, in fact on the same day as our new president was inaugurated, I took the oath of an American with over 60 other like-minded new citizens in Seattle. My Canadian roots began almost 100 years ago when my grandparents left Nebraska for the lure of rich farmland up in the Canadian West. Staking a claim on their “ten-dollar [...]

Sequim and Port Angeles now have a newspaper online with a new and exciting look and content that is driven by local interests, stories, and helpful news. This is bigger than it may sound for several reasons. What sets this newspaper apart from the Sequim Gazette or the Peninsula Daily News? A [...]

Joseph Schumpeter wrote an enlightening book entitled Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. It deals with the economics of capitalism, socialism and the death of free enterprise. First published in 1942, it sheds some light on our society today, especially on some of the thought coming from our liberal universities and burgeoning governments who place a heavy tax burden [...]

There is good news and bad news. Let’s start with the bad. There are
left until the market begins the long process of a rebound to better days. That would be April 1, 2010. No one wants to hear that, but let’s face reality. We are in the worst economic slump, the worst real [...]