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    Articles by Jim Larsen
    Editor’s column: Cable television goes after the fruit fly audience
    Editor’s column: Cable television goes after the fruit...
    By Jim Larsen • November 17, 2009 5:06 pm

    Comcast and other paid TV providers see their customers as fruit flies, incapable of seeing far into the future.

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    Goen wins fire seat, but recount required
    Goen wins fire seat, but recount required
    By Jim Larsen • November 13, 2009 6:19 pm

    Challenger Jerry Goen beat incumbent Larry Morse in the North Whidbey Fire and Rescue race, but it will take a recount before the new commissioner is officially crowned.
    Goen won by the second-narrowest of margins, eking out a two-vote advantage over Morse. The final tally announced Friday afternoon by the Island County Auditor’s Office left Goen with 2,196 votes to 2,194 for Morse.

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    Editor’s Column: New license plates have hospital possibilities
    Editor’s Column: New license plates have hospital possibilities
    By Jim Larsen • November 10, 2009 5:34 pm

    My $30 license tab promised by Tim Eyman cost way more this year, because the tab came packed inside a large envelope containing two new license plates.

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    Editor’s column: Why we lost assembly line to South Carolina
    Editor’s column: Why we lost assembly line to...
    By Jim Larsen • November 3, 2009 5:50 pm

    Curious about Boeing’s decision to build airplanes in South Carolina instead of Washington, I did a little research on the winning state. What I discovered fully explains Boeing’s decision.

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    Book features 10 of island’s ‘Special Places”
    Book features 10 of island’s ‘Special Places”
    By Jim Larsen • September 29, 2009 6:49 pm

    With the gloom of winter setting in soon, you can always find warmth and blue skies in the pages of a new book on the market, “Whidbey Island’s Special Places … and the People Who Love Them,” which is a labor of love by its author, Langley resident Dan Pedersen.

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    Editor’s column: In pursuit of the wild Whidbey Island humpie
    Editor’s column: In pursuit of the wild Whidbey...
    By Jim Larsen • August 26, 2009 12:39 pm

    The wine, cheese and art set gets most of the publicity on Whidbey Island these days, but the real action…

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    Daily Grind owner Tammi DeRosa
    Clean living rewarded at Oak Harbor’s Daily Grind
    By Jim Larsen • August 12, 2009 5:51 pm

    Ultra-clean living has paid off for Daily Grind owner Tammie DeRosa in terms of customer and spousal satisfaction.
    Another perfect score after an inspection by the county health department sent two of her customers scurrying up to the Whidbey News-Times to announce the accomplishment.

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    Jean Wieman
    Oak Harbor food bank explains discard policies
    By Jim Larsen • August 12, 2009 4:17 pm

    A small drama unfolded Friday at North Whidbey Help House involving a woman raiding the charity’s garbage can and a resulting drive-by by the Oak Harbor police.

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    The North Whidbey Car Show Saturday was popular with woman and beast. Vicki Harvey of Langley and her faithful dog Geezer study the impressive engine of a 1977 Chevy SS owned by Bob Johnson. While the 190-pound Geezer appreciates a good engine
    Hollywood Graham takes North Whidbey Car Show honors
    By Jim Larsen • August 10, 2009 6:30 pm

    The 24th edition of the North Whidbey Car Show attracted several thousand visitors to Windjammer Park Saturday who reminisced over classic custom cars, fantasized over driving the muscle cars, and collectively marveled at how many hours were involved in maintaining, refurbishing and building the scores of dazzling vehicles on display.

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    Scott Fraser
    The porker has landed
    By Jim Larsen • July 28, 2009 6:32 pm

    Approximately 1,000 pounds of pork landed in Oak Harbor Friday, ready to become the main course in a free dinner offered to the community.

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    Editor’s column: Another un-American election in progress
    Editor’s column: Another un-American election in progress
    By Jim Larsen • July 28, 2009 5:26 pm

    t’s time for another all-mail election and another diatribe from yours truly, apparently the only person left in American who…

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    Editor’s column: A dozen columns suitable for tweeting
    Editor’s column: A dozen columns suitable for tweeting
    By Jim Larsen • July 21, 2009 7:44 pm

    When this column was started many years ago it was based on the assumption that the public was tired of…

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    Editor’s column: Some answers to your probable questions
    Editor’s column: Some answers to your probable questions
    By Jim Larsen • July 7, 2009 6:51 pm

    Occasionally we receive questions, but if we don’t we make them up. Here are some answers to questions that may…

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