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I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner

Art Shotwell Mar. 30 2022 7 minutes read
I’ve been teaching college English for more than 30 years. Four years ago, I stopped putting grades on written work, and it has transformed my teaching and my students’ learning. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner.

As Red States Push Strident Abortion Bans, Other Restrictions Suddenly Look Less Extreme

Art Shotwell Mar. 30 2022 5 minutes read
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has yet to make clear its stand on Roe v. Wade. But state lawmakers aren’t waiting to consider a variety of extreme measures: bills that would ban abortions in cases of ectopic pregnancies, allow rapists’ families to object to terminating a victim’s pregnancy, or prohibit the procedure in the case of fetal disability. Do these proposals make the less extreme restrictions seem more mainstream?

Police Blotter, March 18 - 25, 2022

Anacortes Police Mar. 28 2022 8 minutes read
Anacortes Police said that numerous people called to report a man being disorderly and in at least one instance was mooning people.

Soaring crude prices make the cost of pretty much everything else go up too because we almost literally eat oil

Art Shotwell Mar. 28 2022 5 minutes read
The price of oil has been spiking in recent weeks in response to concerns that the war in Ukraine will significantly reduce supply. But what happens in oil markets never stays in oil markets.

Local governments are attractive targets for hackers and are ill-prepared

Art Shotwell Mar. 28 2022 4 minutes read
President Joe Biden on March 21, 2022, warned that Russian cyberattacks on U.S. targets are likely, though the government has not identified a specific threat. Biden urged the private sector: “Harden your cyber defenses immediately.”

Vaccine hesitancy is complicating physicians’ obligation to respect patient autonomy during the COVID-19 pandemic

Art Shotwell Mar. 24 2022 5 minutes read
Sitting barely 6 feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: “No, I will not get vaccinated. And nothing you do or say will change that fact.” He provided no reason for why he was so opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Three Ways to Cope with the New Now

Art Shotwell Mar. 24 2022 3 minutes read
With the many difficult changes and current events that have transpired in the last couple of years, many Americans have found it difficult to cope with stress and sustain healthy mental health habits.

COVID case rate improves in Skagit County

Art Shotwell Mar. 24 2022 2 minutes read
Skagit County’s 7-day case rate has decreased by 32 percent since last week; our 7-day hospitalization rate did not change. Sadly, 6 new COVID-related deaths were reported. 

Ukraine’s economy went from Soviet chaos to oligarch domination to vital global trader of wheat and neon – and now Russian devastation

Art Shotwell Mar. 21 2022 6 minutes read
Many factories and businesses still function. Other industries like those in information technology have barely missed a beat, with workers continuing to work from areas out of the direct line of fire.

Police Blotter, March 11 - 17, 2022

Anacortes Police Mar. 21 2022 6 minutes read
A Friday Harbor teenager got off without a charge after he was caught doing donuts in a Port of Anacortes gravel parking lot. 

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