Herald Forum

Forum: Celebrate with Everett VFW as organization’s year wraps

Its Spring Fling is set for April 5 with the post again in the running for VFW’s All-American Award.

 

Forum: Washington students’ math scores don’t add up to success

How can the state be fifth in spending in the U.S. but have so many students struggling in tests?

 

Forum: ‘Whole Lotta Love’ for becoming a teenage Led Zepplin fan

A new documentary brings back images of rock stars and memories of the juicier days of youth.

 

Forum: What a late Korean War veteran has to say to Ukraine

A man who fought against an aggressor says our country owes an apology and gratitude to Zelensky.

Forum: It’s come to this; maybe some states should join Canada

If the U.S. is so ideologically divided, maybe Washington and other states should look to the Great White North.

Forum: Kids and parents navigate transitions as years pass

Boxing up the playthings of childhood is an exercise in choosing what to part with, what to keep.

Forum: Are systems serving us, or are we serving systems?

Whether we’re talking 401(k)s or immigration, are systems serving what’s in our interests and values?

Forum: Small changes can have lasting impacts in ninth grade

A program in Everett schools for ninth-grade students is a success. Its state funding should continue.

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.