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Letters to the Editor — April 25, 2022
Please invoke Defense Protection Act Editor, Earth Day is a reminder that together, there is a lot we can do to stop and then reverse the damage done by the greed and recklessness of ...
More questions for flood relief victims
Hope. Spring, green grass, flowering trees, bushes, snowdrops, tulips, daffodils, even dandelions. All give hope of the season yet to come. Summer with different crops of food and grain ...
Ben Elenbaas: a conservative heart
Where have the age-old virtues of kindness, grace, and forgiveness gone in our politics? Every day is filled with examples of both sides of the political divide trying to bloody the ...
It’s all in the mind
The other day as I calmly sat by the large windows of my bedroom during the moments of dawn, gazing deeply at the spectacular garden, a beautiful thought on mind, which I read somewhere, ...
Demanding ‘unreasonable sustainability’
Have you heard of gossamer spider webs? Although they shimmer in the dewy morning sunlight, nevertheless they entrap the unsuspecting. Have you been caught in a gossamer web put out ...
Letters to the Editor — April 13, 2022
Economic, energy, industrial independence are paramount Editor, Six-hundred-and-twenty-one. That’s the number of jobs lost caused by the closing of Intalco. When the aluminum smelting ...
County needs to enact emergency ordinance
I am one of many people affected by the flood. I am still not in my home but hope to be in the near future. I still have hopes all the government officials in charge of doing something ...
The orca-salmon-dam-dredging controversy
A huge ecological impediment called Save the Orca blocks our emergency measure. To save the orca killer whales, Gov. Jay Inslee wants to remove four major dams on the lower Snake River. ...
Gas prices fuel work from safety of home
With COVID-19 vaccines widely dispensed and masking requirements mostly lifted, will work-from-home end? Will workers return to downtown offices at pre-pandemic levels? Probably not. ...
Letters to the Editor — March 30, 2022
Cats is ‘an evening of wonderful theater’ Editor, We want to give a standing ovation to Lynden Drama’s Cats which we saw opening night. Our opinion is unbiased …we don’t ...