OUR VIEW

• Tuesday thumbs: Point Roberts park gift and manufacturing woes

  Thumbs up - To The Nature Conservancy for its gift of 146 acres of Point Roberts as part of a county park. The group bought the land and is giving it to the county for preservation.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• Says bank CEOs get away with too much

• Please don't bring dogs into workplaces

• Says suicide backers imposing moral code

• Thinks Caroline Kennedy offers little

• Says removal of snow, ice is better in county

• Says Northridge Park is fine the way it is

• City needs to do more to clean snowy streets

• Thanks those who did snow-removal work

• Suggest Point Roberts as new holding site

• Upset with businesses not clearing sidewalks

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