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Letters to the Editor — May 8, 2019
Reply to letter Forty-second District Sen. Doug Ericksen replies as follows to a letter printed May 1 regarding his Pac Rim Bridges LLC contract to be a representative of the ...
Letters to the Editor — May 1, 2019
On Ericksen’s connections with Cambodia Let’s talk about the Khmer Rouge commander, Hun Sen, who won the fake election in Cambodia last July. You know, the government that ...
State needs to pay ‘fair share’ of election costs
This is a column submitted relating to Tuesday evening adoption by the Whatcom County Council of a resolution supporting that the state pay its “fair share of funding for election ...
Letters to the Editor — April 24, 2019
On Ericksen’s contract with Cambodia I don’t doubt that it’s legal for Sen. Ericksen to sign a contract to be an agent for Cambodia. But it is what he does with it that ...
SB 5438 will cut off migrants from legal labor
This is a guest column from Pam Lewison, agriculture policy research director in the Tri-Cities office of the Washington Policy Center. Learn more at www.washingtonpolicy.org. ...
State House passes three budgets – operating, capital and transportation
On Friday, March 25, House Democrats in Olympia proposed an operating budget that passed on a party-line vote with Democrats voting Yes and Republicans voting No. It is important to ...
Mutchler running for reelection
By Jon Mutchler, Ferndale mayor Jon Mutchler is asking Ferndale voters to grant him a second term as mayor. “Ferndale was in great shape when I took over (from Mayor Jensen) ...
Letters to the Editor — March 20, 2019
On liberals Liberalism is a mental disorder — to deceive the passive by taking away their guns and their rights and tax them to death, until the end. This is what dictators ...
Legislature, don’t break McCleary promise
Ferndale School Board speaks out after having passed a bond This is a guest column submitted by the Ferndale School Board calling attention to a legislative issue of concern to ...
Sunshine, because it’s your government
This is a guest column written by Jim Zachary, a regional editor of CHNI newspapers in the southeastern United States. He is also vice-president of the Georgia First Amendment ...