This Week's Blogger Roundup From Kirkland Patch

Your neighbors in Kirkland have a lot to share, from stories of teamwork at a local air show to an update on the local real estate market.

Here is a roundup of the last week's Patch blogs:

Thriving Teens:

• Collaboration: One of the 4C’s of 21st Century Learning

• Cadets from US and Canada working together at local air show

• Love Saves the Day at MEOW Cat Rescue!

• Making Responsible Choices: How Ex-State Legislator Mary Lou Dickerson is taking on the Initiative Process

• ASK A LIBERTARIAN: ISO burning questions about Libertarian ways and means

• Justin Timberlake has a sexually terrifying case of "Tunnel Vision"
• Relationship do-overs rewrite the future!

• Kirkland Real Estate Continues Rebound

• Is it safe for me to eat tuna? 

• Seafood tidbits

• Education union seeks to stop children from attending charter schools
• School board association hosts meeting on charter schools
• Spokane Public Schools embraces charter schools

• ReviewsWhat Would Our State Look Like Without Boeing?
• Coal exports — seek the answers

• Enjoy a Different View of the Sammamish Slough

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