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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 ...