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The "Our View" editorials I write for our editorial board do that without even trying.Here are a few stances our editorial board has taken:- Bellingham should fluoridate its water supply.- The Bellingham City Council is wrong to punish Wal-Mart through land use laws — and even more wrong to try and pass off those laws as concern about growth.

- Whatcom County should place stringent restrictions on development around Lake Whatcom and in agricultural and rural areas of the county.

Preserving rural areas is more important than protecting neighborhoods in the cities.- The state should create "civil union" laws that recognize relationships between homosexual people and grant them rights similar to those granted heterosexual married couples.- The United States should not pull troops out of Iraq until the country is stabilized.

Our nation destroyed that society, we have a responsibility to see it repaired.Enough?

There are plenty more that generate a lot of anger.

Our board tries to logically defend all of the stances we take.

And I personally agree with all of the stances I have mentioned here.Are they contrary?

Depends on who you are and what you bel...

They will recount his eloquence, his charm, his love of Lyndon Johnson, his incredible gift at speech making and his storytelling.

They will also tell about the wonderful love story he had with his wife Mary-Margaret.

Jack had the talent - that rare and fantastically elusive talent possessed by very few people in this world - Jackie Kennedy and He could have been patronizing, perfunctory and even dismissive.

After all, I was almost 40 years his junior and I was taking on a role where he would have to sit at the table with me on behalf of our sister organizations.

Instead, he gave me kind advice, spent lots of time with me and included me as a peer in many high profile industry meetings and events well before I had my sea legs.

Jack was sometimes faulted for seeing rosey scenarios where they didn't exist in order to keep life graceful.

That is a quality I would choose over cy...