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Anacortes School District moving ahead to curb in-school vaping

Anacortes Now Feb. 23 2023 1 minute read

The Anacortes School District says it is taking on the issue of student vaping, particularly vaping THC, and doing what it can to stop its use. 

Why Do Politicians Weaponize Medicare? Because It Works

KFF Health News Feb. 21 2023 6 minutes read

Politicians are again pointing fingers over who wants to cut Medicare. As past Washington brawls show, the party accused of threatening popular entitlements tends to lose elections — although it’s the beneficiaries relying on lawmakers to fund it who stand to lose the most.

Police Blotter, February 10 - 16, 2023

Anacortes Police Feb. 20 2023 7 minutes read

A 63-year-old Anacortes man was charged with first-degree attempted assault and harassment after a report of a woman being threatened with what looked like a handgun.

Cold weather this week

Art Shotwell Feb. 20 2023 1 minute read

Brrr, plan on some pretty cold weather later this week.

How One Mom Fought Washington’s Special Education System — and Won

ProPublica Feb. 19 2023 13 minutes read

The state’s failure to monitor private special education schools forces parents to take extraordinary and sometimes expensive measures to get their kids into the best programs— or keep them out of the worst.

Many Americans wrongly assume they understand what normal blood pressure is – and that false confidence can be deadly

The Conversation Feb. 17 2023 7 minutes read

Nearly half of all Americans ages 20 and up have high blood pressure. Yet research shows that most people in the US don’t know the cutoff numbers for healthy blood pressure.

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