In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln made an appeal for unity on the eve of the Civil War.
Washington’s Supreme Court delivered Gov. Jay Inslee an overdue remedial lesson in the state Constitution Nov. 10. Inslee’s abuse of line-item vetoes to tinker with the 2019 transportation budget overreached his authority, the court ruled.
Although Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s response to a public-information request was late and secretive to the point of being both troubling and insulting, it wasn’t completely without value.
A government agency that acts too highfalutin to provide citizens with straight answers is a risk to democracy. Admittedly, there are few things so galling to even a politically neutral local newspaperman. But independents, progressives and conservatives should all be united in fighting unju…
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With completion of splendid restoration work at North Head, attention now should turn to its less visited but far more historic brother at Cape Disappointment.
It’s been joked that a century ago here around the Columbia River estuary, racial diversity consisted of whiter shades of pale — bickering Scandinavian tribes kept in check by smug native-born Americans with British roots.
One issue we can all agree on is that food shouldn’t be wasted. Too much time, effort and money goes into growing food for it to be casually tossed into the garbage.
As Valerie Perkins expressed so well in a guest column last week, efforts to revive the downtown core of Ilwaco leave some important things undone. At the same time, her deep affection for town is undeniable:
Dozens of children die in the U.S. each year in vehicle vs. pedestrian crashes around school bus stops and school zones. Let’s make very certain it doesn’t happen here.
When thinking about vital community infrastructure, there can be few higher priorities than expanding childcare options for hard-working local families.
Redistricting may seem like one of those subjects only politicians and newspaper editors care about, but it profoundly affects who speaks for us in Olympia and Washington, D.C., which in turn determines how much power we have to shape our own destinies.
I remember Les Swenson kindly flying me around the peninsula 30 years ago — just as I was beginning my editorship here in mid-August 1991. Aside from being flabbergasted by the beauty of our homeland, I was struck by just how wild and forested it was.
State and federal government failed to stem the deepening economic challenges confronting many Washington communities long before covid-19 cut into lives and livelihoods. Old timber towns with shuttered mills, flood-soaked cities and rural areas left off high-speed broadband networks suffere…
Pacific County fire departments — mostly dedicated volunteers, supplemented with some highly qualified paid professionals — along with Washington Department of Natural Resources firefighters, did impressive work last week by controlling what easily could have been a catastrophic blaze along …
Years ago, a friend retiring from a longtime job as library director told me she wasn’t interested in leading the transformation to the digital era.
There’s a renewed appreciation of the role newspapers and other news media play in keeping America and local communities healthy.
Unvaccinated Pacific County people and those who care about them should be concerned about rising covid-19 cases here.
In his boyhood (and later when having a child still at home provided a plausible excuse), the editor was wild about fireworks. Back in the 1960s when firecrackers were universally available and every kid with a few dollars could be an amateur explosives expert, much fun was had (and more tha…
June’s genuinely shocking heatwave wasn’t by itself proof of global warming, any more than one Texas blizzard disproves it. Single events are weather, not climate. And weather is perfectly capable of being extreme, even without we humans pumping our atmosphere and ocean full of greenhouse gases.
Washington’s Supreme Court delivered Gov. Jay Inslee an overdue remedial lesson in the state Constitution Nov. 10. Inslee’s abuse of line-item vetoes to tinker with the 2019 transportation bud…
Although Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s response to a public-information request was late and secretive to the point of being both troubling and insulting, it wasn’t completely without value.
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With completion of splendid restoration work at North Head, attention now should turn to its less visited but far more historic brother at Cape Disappointment.
It’s been joked that a century ago here around the Columbia River estuary, racial diversity consisted of whiter shades of pale — bickering Scandinavian tribes kept in check by smug native-born…
One issue we can all agree on is that food shouldn’t be wasted. Too much time, effort and money goes into growing food for it to be casually tossed into the garbage.
As Valerie Perkins expressed so well in a guest column last week, efforts to revive the downtown core of Ilwaco leave some important things undone. At the same time, her deep affection for tow…
Dozens of children die in the U.S. each year in vehicle vs. pedestrian crashes around school bus stops and school zones. Let’s make very certain it doesn’t happen here.
When thinking about vital community infrastructure, there can be few higher priorities than expanding childcare options for hard-working local families.
Redistricting may seem like one of those subjects only politicians and newspaper editors care about, but it profoundly affects who speaks for us in Olympia and Washington, D.C., which in turn …
I remember Les Swenson kindly flying me around the peninsula 30 years ago — just as I was beginning my editorship here in mid-August 1991. Aside from being flabbergasted by the beauty of our h…
State and federal government failed to stem the deepening economic challenges confronting many Washington communities long before covid-19 cut into lives and livelihoods. Old timber towns with…
Pacific County fire departments — mostly dedicated volunteers, supplemented with some highly qualified paid professionals — along with Washington Department of Natural Resources firefighters, …
Years ago, a friend retiring from a longtime job as library director told me she wasn’t interested in leading the transformation to the digital era.
There’s a renewed appreciation of the role newspapers and other news media play in keeping America and local communities healthy.
Unvaccinated Pacific County people and those who care about them should be concerned about rising covid-19 cases here.
In his boyhood (and later when having a child still at home provided a plausible excuse), the editor was wild about fireworks. Back in the 1960s when firecrackers were universally available an…
June’s genuinely shocking heatwave wasn’t by itself proof of global warming, any more than one Texas blizzard disproves it. Single events are weather, not climate. And weather is perfectly cap…
Last year, we wrote that the Class of 2020 “does not have an asterisk alongside it.”
Diving into annual salmon numbers tells us a lot about these iconic Pacific Northwest fish while raising complex and troubling questions.
Another season, another tragedy on the beach.
The Washington Legislature’s failure to pass a transportation infrastructure package is peculiar and regrettable. Maintaining our vital highways, bridges and other aids to getting around surel…
After delivering a powerful report on America’s local news crisis last fall, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell is following through with an ambitious proposal to help solve the problem.
Who hasn’t fantasized about getting to travel back in time, even if only for five minutes, to nudge the future in a different direction? For me, one that comes to mind is a quick trip to 1928 …
The biggest surprise about our regional housing shortage is that it took so long to fully materialize.
The best that can be said about farmworker overtime legislation passed by the Washington Legislature is that it gives producers time to adjust and protects them from backpay lawsuits set in mo…
With covid vaccination appointments now about to open for all adults, it’s easy to see that by this summer or fall the nation will reach a point when most responsible grownups will be protecte…
Local experts connected in various ways with salmon fishing and conservation must be ready to blow a gasket over the Washington Legislature’s latest clumsy efforts to “help.”
In crafting his plan for the removal of the dams on the lower Snake River, Rep. Mike Simpson has managed to forge consensus between farm, shipping and environmental interests on his idea. They…
The hatefulness and plundering that accompanied internment of Japanese Americans 80 years ago is our region’s most notorious racist episode in recent times, though stupid bias against Native A…
March 11 marks the 10th anniversary of the historic Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which are still sending ripples across the Pacific in the form of heightened awareness and initiatives to i…
Pandemics are such monstrous and mournful blows to society that they warp time, like the frozen moments after a traffic collision when a car is airborne but hasn’t yet shattered against the ha…
U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, our local congresswoman for the past decade, is suddenly well-known in national politics thanks to refreshing displays of candor and independence.
On Jan. 13 in the middle of otherwise toxic national politics, the Protect and Restore America’s Estuaries Act was signed into law with strong bipartisan support. The Washington and Oregon con…
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Four years ago this winter, Immigration and Customs Enforcement started an intensive campaign targeting local undocumented immigrants. Both at the time and now, this manhunt appeared to be a v…
Best wishes to everyone for a happier new year!
When many people look back, it’s possible 2020 will be remembered as the worst year of their lives.
As we prepare to welcome a new year, our entire staff would like to say a special thank-you to our readers and advertisers for your continued support during these troubled times.
It’s Christmas week and we want to wish all our readers, advertisers and staff a Merry Christmas.
In this holiday season like no other, the peninsula community is being challenged to fund its food banks.
There’s a commendable focus on racial, ethnic and gender diversity in appointments to the incoming Biden administration, while one characteristic goes unremarked and possibly neglected. That i…
As the Trump administration wore on, I tired of lengthy letters and rebuttals about the president and his actions. Too often, these veered into personal aspersions, with neither side convincin…
Even as climate change deniers in the Trump administration were blocking a reckoning, a new coalition of farm groups and environmentalists was meeting secretly — building a 40-point climate pr…
Last week was extraordinarily bad in Pacific County, with newly diagnosed covid infections roughly doubling every day or two — from 26 on Nov. 16, to 55 on Nov. 19, to 94 on Nov. 21. The weekl…
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Usually at this time of year we publish an exhortation to vote.
I have mixed feelings about making political endorsements. There are several reasons:
On what would have ordinarily been Rod Run weekend, a crowd estimated to be about 40% smaller than usual turned out at the beach for an informal happy celebration of classic cars and pickups. …
The good news regarding the census is that we’re starting to see census takers walking around area neighborhoods, knocking on doors to locate and count residents who didn’t respond to mailings…
As legislators across the nation grapple with revenue shortfalls caused by the shutdown and curtailment of businesses in their states, we would like to issue a plea.
The post office is one of the marvels of America’s economy and culture.
The most powerful actions we can take to recover our region’s salmon are to give our rivers and streams room to breathe while protecting the land and vegetation lining their banks.
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