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Charlie Bermant

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Charlie Bermant covers Port Townsend for the Peninsula Daily News. You can reach him in care of cybermant@gmail.com.
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Posted Tue, Aug 10, 7:46 a.m.
This is nothing new. I wrote this piece http://crosscut.com/2008/06/28/media/15407/You,-anonymous/ two years ago right on this very site. This may be a bit like blowing my own horn, but that's the nature of the Internet. If I don't blow ot, no one else will. The new version takes my version to ...
MOREPosted Fri, Dec 11, 11:41 a.m.
Well, that's my point. If you “show your ass" when someone points a camera your way that is a choice. I'm recommending good behavior for people who may be caught unaware, picking their nose "privately" and finding themselves part of an online montage of booger farmers. Some people will be ...
MOREPosted Mon, May 11, 11:25 p.m.
Wow, no one has ever suggested that I was in an exalted position as a member of anything, but if disclosure matters I am a reporter for the Port Orchard Independent. I didn't bring this up before because this was a personal opinion of a topic outside of my beat. ...
MOREPosted Mon, May 11, 8:20 a.m.
Since there are so many sources out there competing for my attention, I stopped reading Ms. Godden's piece after the first line. Cary Bozeman did not "come to Seattle" to trash the city and its leaders, rather he did so during a mayor's conference in Bremerton, which he hosted. My ...
MOREPosted Sat, Jun 28, 7:08 p.m.
Author's Note: Sorry that I didn't join the discussion earlier. I was unplugged. A few points: • I was born in 1954. So on my family vacations we littered freely, wore no seat belts and Mom smoked. This has all changed. Sorry I didn't include that perspective. • The idea ...
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