ELECTION: Smith enables Obama agenda
Adam Smith continues to tout his support of veterans’ causes. I’m a veteran of two years’ combat service in Vietnam. I think of my service as an expression of commitment to the values enshrined in our...
View ArticleELECTION: Candidates display different kinds of courage
In the 9th congressional district stretching from Olympia to Auburn. two able candidates are kicking it in. The incumbent Adam Smith and Dick Muri, the challenger of county council fame, sparred last...
View ArticleENERGY: Washington legislators stepped up for clean energy
Re: “Renewable energy industry banking on more grants” (thenewstribune.com, 12-9). While the news on our economic recovery has not been great, clean energy has been doing its part to create jobs and...
View ArticleGAS: Transitioning to CNG would ease fuel costs
I work with a gentleman with family in Peru. In Peru it costs $300 to convert a car so it will run on both gasoline and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). It costs $6,000 to do the same thing here. Our...
View ArticleDEBT: Adam Smith is only half-right
Re: “Raising debt ceiling just the first step on road to fiscal health” (Viewpoint, 7-28). As is typical for him, Rep. Adam Smith mixed both Republican and Democratic talking points in his...
View ArticleABORTION: Another attempt to undermine women’s access to health care
Reps. Norm Dicks and Adam Smith stood up for women’s health and reproductive rights by voting against H.R. 358. H.R. 358 is another attempt by House Republicans to revive the failed Stupak amendment....
View ArticleELECTION: How’s Obama’s ‘friends’ policy working?
It is interesting that U.S. Rep. Adam Smith attacks the prior administration on national security (TNT, 7-17). We were secure during the Bush administration, perhaps because of the aggressive response...
View ArticleCANCER: Funding must be a priority for Congress
Last week, I traveled to Washington, D.C., to represent cancer patients and survivors from Tacoma, Washington to call on Congress to make cancer a national priority. I joined more than 600 American...
View ArticleECONOMY: Candidates not so job-friendly
The Real Clear Politics Congressional Approval Rating is 13.8 percent approval and 79.6 percent disapprove. With that in mind, former congressman Jay Inslee captured 46 percent of the primary vote,...
View ArticleCONGRESS: Very little leadership being shown
So our congressional “leaders” have reached a compromise to avoid the fiscal cliff. Now they are patting themselves on the back for “getting the job done.” But wait a minute, the Congressional Budget...
View ArticleHEALTH CARE: Thanks, but no thanks
Gov. Jay Inslee, Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, and Congressman Adam Smith all have several things in common. One glaring commonality is that all have health care plans for themselves, their...
View ArticleEDUCATION: Local lawmakers back important bill
As a member of RESULTS here in Tacoma, we meet and discuss many issues. One of the most important and compelling for me is the lack of basic primary education in many countries. Fifty-seven million...
View ArticleMILITARY: TNT headline wrongly refers to service benefits as ‘pork’
Re: “Smith: Cut port or risk hollow force” (TNT, 5-2) The headline on the print version of the Associated Press article is misleading and cannot go unchallenged. Since when do military benefits such as...
View ArticleLABOR: Oppose offshoring of living-wage jobs
Inequality may well be the defining problem of our time. The causes of inequality are complex, but one way of combating inequality is protecting worker’s rights. So why do our politicians continue to...
View ArticlePORT: Demand action at the federal level
Re: “Productivity decline cuts container numbers at ports” (TNT, 12-19). Reporter John Gillie did an outstanding job of explaining the economic backlash that is being caused by the infighting between...
View ArticlePORT: Unions are only part of the problem
One letter writer has suggested (TNT, 12-20) that Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell and Rep. Adam Smith intervene with the negotiations between the longshore union and the Pacific Maritime...
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