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Guest Opinion: Don’t sugarcoat learning-loss crisis
It’s been about a month since our kids returned the classroom, and students, parents, and teachers are clearly still dealing with the ramifications of pandemic policies that closed ...
Guest Opinion: Ingested fluoride or Topical fluoride
The Fluoride added to our water system is not a simple negative ion of fluorine F-, its actual form is hydrofluorosilicic acid. A Bellingham dentist, Jonathan Henry has expounded on ...
Letters to the Editor: Nov. 1, 2023
Polarized drama for publicity’s sake Editor, It was hard to avoid hearing the parade of names of those representatives who tried to become speaker of the U.S. House. Regardless of ...
Letters to the Editor: Oct. 25, 2023
No fight, no win Editor, All taxation is regressive taxation, the greatest burden, proportionately, falling upon those least able to bear it. Property taxes are the most egregious of ...
Guest Opinion: Fluoride: Whether or not you want it?
We don’t really need to argue about whether or not fluoride is good or bad for people. The bottom line question should be, “Does the government have the right to medicate everybody ...
Guest Opinion: Fentanyl overdose is preventable with education
October marks National Substance Use Prevention Month, which makes this an ideal time to ramp up overdose prevention messaging and save lives. Amid the ongoing opioid epidemic, synthetic ...
Letters to the Editor: Oct. 18, 2023
Implications of ‘controversial policies’ Editor, I would like to follow up on the recent letter about the gender inclusion policies at Lynden and Ferndale school districts. The ...
Guest Opinion: Library a ‘pillar of our community’
I first visited the current Lynden library in 2007, a few years after it opened in 2003. I was in fifth grade and needed a biography about Helen Keller for a school project. As my dad ...
Letters to the Editor: Oct. 11, 2023
CHCC staff ‘can’t be beat’ Editor, I am wiring from Lynden Christian Health Care Center (CHCC) to tell you about the care I have received here. I ended up at PeaceHealth with ...
Guest Opinion: Are elected officials held accountable?
As summer fades fall marches in with colors in the trees, a smell in the air and of course the harvesting of corn and crops to include pumpkins to decorate fields and homes. Then comes ...