Herald Forum

Forum: Changing status quo easy; letting justice guide harder

A combination of concern and action promotes justice, and that takes reflection and courage to act.

 

Forum: Funding for childcare, education helps kids and parents

Those programs support valuable investments in families, in businesses and our state’s economy.

 

Forum: Let Edmonds residents hear RFA facts without city’s spin

The city spent money on a PR campaign about joining the fire authority. Facts should guide the decision.

 

Forum: State church leaders call for compasion for immigrants

Scripture repeatedly instructs us to love our neighbor and show the stranger hospitality.

Forum: Support state legislation to reform policing, corrections

One bill would harmonize standards for agency leadership; another would clarify review of corrections facilities.

Forum: Requiem for a lost heavyweight: Sports Illustrated

SI, with Time and NatGeo, were a holy trinity for me and my dad. Now, it’s a world of AI clickbait.

Forum: Political leaders should leave trash talk to ballplayers

Verbal intimidation is one thing on the basketball court; it shouldn’t have a place in our politics.

Forum: Setting our schedules, virtues, values and morality

Our lives depend on calibration, aligning our clocks to other timepieces. But how do we know the time?

Forum: Too much of health care spending isn’t used for health care

Our system wastes money on a fight between insurers and providers. We need a national health service.

Forum: County must protect wetlands that feed salmon, orca

Changing rules that would lift protections for wetlands would harm streams, rivers and Puget Sound.

Forum: Life as a northern girl, longing for a southern mood

Following a jazz guitarist to Arkansas may not have made me southern, but I kept a wisp of the accent.

Forum: The one thing that AI can’t replicate: our wondrous flaws

Anything that AI produces, such as music, is hollow in its perfection. Flaws breathe life into our work.

Forum: Drive for pitching speed troubles dad over injuries

More young baseball players are facing shoulder surgery as the sport pushes for high speeds and strikeouts.

Forum: New Herald columnist hopes to encourage dialogue, insight

Todd Welch is a Navy veteran and former member of the Lake Stevens City Council and will focus on local issues.

Forum: Finding acceptance, rather than shame in missing mark

When hopes for a personal goal fall short, we can choose guilt or accept the grace of learning from it.

Forum: Kept or not, making resolutions is a helpful process

The effort offers a chance to reflect on your time, your word, your attention and your connections.

Forum: ‘Stand-up Cult’ follows muffin tin liners, not one-liners

You can keep your air fryers; for kitchen aficionados, the ultimate customizable appliance is the mixer.

Forum: Set state DNR back on path to preserving resources

A recentering of needs must place more focus on the web of species that depend upon forest environments.

Forum: As Mukilteo diversifies, ts DEI panel works to value all

Its work, funded by a few thousand dollars, encourages conversations about an inclusive Mukilteo.

Forum: Veterans, others need alternatives in pain management

Opioid prescriptions can easily lead to addiction. Congress can encourage non-addictive options.