By Stephen Buller The initiative to reject Washington’s “millionaire’s” tax was shot down in spectacular fashion, and it looks like high-income Washingtonians will be filing a state income tax return starting in 2028. If you think it won’t affect you in any way, I hope this article will give some perspective on how taxes usually…
By Marc J. Elzenbeck It’s evening, and a landscaper sits in a grocery parking lot, savoring the remains of the day. The sign on his passenger door says “Landscaping,” the truck is a diesel and its idle resonates deep. The driver of the pristine white 2024 Chevy Silverado LTZ Duramax looks to be in his…
Years ago, I had a business that needed a server to be located right next to a high speed internet backbone, an arrangement known as “colocation”. The company was fine, their tech people had a clue, and my server moved its bits with quiet reliability. Colocation is a rental type of arrangement, and I paid…
By Gates (Pam) Johnson It’s beginning to look a lot like the holiday season. I can’t believe that I am five months into my year-long cancer treatments. There are only four more infusions to be done, then I should be declared cancer-free. It sure has been a long, rough road, but I’m still standing and…
Upcoming concert news and reflection, and a nod to a Seattle early music luminary By Jane Valencia “I have news for you!The stags bellow,the snow of winter fallsSummer is no more.” ~ From a 9th c. Irish poem On Saturday, November 21 at 2:00 p.m., Islanders have a chance to savor fall’s passage into winter…
By Caitlin Rothermel Scientists are in an ongoing discussion as to whether our recommended vitamin D intake is too low, and whether this is due – at least in part – to a poor mathematical decision. Some important background. In the United States and Canada, the daily recommended vitamin D intake for adults up to…
I wonder if anyone else on Vashon was as disappointed as I was to receive this year’s voter pamphlet which described the various good-intentioned candidates and their messages to voters of why they are running and what goals they might be interested in pursuing, if elected. Here’s what I find very sad: Not that anyone…
By Emily Kiefer Sometimes, all a reader wants is to fall into a cozy fantasy that reads like a long-lost fairytale. At least that’s what I felt from the first page reading “Once Upon a Broken Heart” by Stephanie Garber. As a fantasy lover at heart, this book (and entire trilogy) hits all the right…
By Mike Ivaska As I sit and write, my family and I prepare to go to the hospital. It will just be a preparatory appointment (which, by the time you read this, will have been a few weeks ago). But the timing is imperfect. Our daughter needs a corrective procedure to fix something in her…