Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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The middle aged fat men sit at the table working on their teams. Their game doesn't resemble what they played in high school. There's no suspense gripping the pit of the stomach before the game, no pep rallies, no nubile young cheerleaders focusing their whole attention on them. No long bus rides from Pomeroy, Asotin, or Touchet, basking in the joy of victory. Their muscles- their stamina-have not been tested in years. When they finish drafting their players, their work will largely be done. Then they will sit back and check their st...
This is the year when we all talk about schools, and why the school system in our country is in crisis. Of course, there hasn't been a year I can remember when we haven't talked about the crisis in our schools. It's become something of a national mantra. The question needs to be revisited. I was thinking about this lately when I read a letter written by my dad when he was nine - a letter of such artistic proportion and elegance of style that Shakespeare would have sat up and marveled, "Man,...
