“Of course, there’s all the more negative stuff like bullying, drugs and drop-outs. It’s always there in some form and in a way it has to be. Trees get stronger with wind in their branches.”
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Marshall Jones: Tweens refuse to let me in on the hip and trendy
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 | 5:00 am
“Tell them to stuff it, I told myself, looking at this big Hurley logo on the black hoody. My generation invented the hoody. Even if they were called bunny-hugs.”
Marshall Jones: Politicians can’t escape accountability because they are journalists
Sunday, January 10th, 2010 | 5:39 pm
Sorry Kelly, but if we let you get away with it, we’re all out of work.
Marshall Jones: In the age of speed, the slow are left behind
Friday, December 11th, 2009 | 11:42 am
“The photos aren’t pretty and we don’t choose to run them without thought. We hope that you look at them…. We hope you see them and think a little harder about what you are doing behind the wheel.”
Marshall Jones: Protecting the tree from the dog who would eat Christmas
Monday, December 7th, 2009 | 3:09 pm
“We considered our options for putting up Christmas decorations but there aren’t many. Wait until Dec. 24? That was my vote as Chief Bahumbugger, but no dice.”
Can good candidates spur enough interest to vote?
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 | 11:52 am
“In this group, the one thing there is plenty of is experience… in election campaigns if not election terms.”
Kelowna’s history will be written by the fate of the CD zone
Sunday, November 15th, 2009 | 4:00 pm
“It’s the closest thing we have come up with to answer Harcourt’s “re-think.” Without it or something close to it, nothing will happen in the part of downtown Kelowna that needs it the most.”
A great grandfather’s fading blue binder tells why I shall remember him
Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | 9:09 am
“We lost one man getting out of the nest and another as we reached the third nest. He was my best buddy. I think I went stark raving mad when my buddy fell.”—Urban Arthur Jones
The Conservatives’ tough on crime agenda is only tough on taxpayers
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | 12:16 pm
“I try to make it sound like a pulpy comic book but comic books have more basis in reality than the Conservatives’ tough on crime agenda.”
Okanagan politics is one race Ross the Liberal snowboarder can’t win
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 | 12:12 pm
“I suspect he’s already told some political fibs starting with ‘always having politics in mind.’ Really, Ross? Were you thinking federal politics when you named your snowboard apparel “RASTA?”
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