It could be something in the air. Maybe it's the political or economic climate, or just an unusual coincidence. Whatever is going on, there are suddenly a lot of leadership resignations floating around right here in our area.

Marysville Mayor Dennis Kendall seemed to tip the first domino with his decision to leave the mayor's office mid-term, handing the reins over to capable City Councilman Jon Nehring.

At about the same time, school board director Michael Kundu tendered his resignation due to an uproar over an e-mail in which he proposed a connection between genetics and academic performance.

Just a few days later, Sherri Crenshaw, president of the Marysville School Board, also gave her notice. She plans to go back to teaching, preferably within the district, which is commendable. But it also leaves the school board with two vacancies to fill.

A phone call tip from a Tulalip tribal member early last week was officially confirmed on Monday -the Tribes' general manager, Shelly Lacy, has resigned from that position in order to take on the role of principal at Heritage High School.

Then we learned that legislator John McCoy had stepped down as business manager at Quil Ceda Village, effective August 1, a job he has held for 16 years.

And although they're not strictly local, the decision by Everett businessmen Art Skotdal and Dwayne Lane to resign from Cascade Bank's Board of Directors, under the expectation that the feds would impose "unreasonable and untenable conditions" on the bank's leaders, certainly is newsworthy.

So, I guess what I'm wondering is...do they know something we don't know? Is that whole Mayan calendar end-of-the-world thing starting to weigh on people's minds?

Knowing the reputations of those who have decided to take their lives in a new direction, I'm certain the reasons are much less ominous, with no ties to science fiction or supernatural occurrences.

Still, the timing is odd, isn't it?

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