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COLUMN: An honor to be on the fire line
As reporters, we spend a lot of time telling other people's stories. Every once in a while, though, you find yours…
Reader addresses Middle East crisis
My mother said, "It takes two to fight." She didn't understand it takes only one bully to start a fight, or just kill another person. A bully lacks the moral obligation to treat other people with respect.
Finding the right fit for emergency management
Grant County Emergency Management's Office moved locations three times in the past four years. Its fourth move is planned for Oct. 29 from its Wheeler Road office to the former Grant County Fairgrounds Office. Spac…
Gratitude for papers to study
I am grateful to you for the use of your newspaper for my CWP class I teach at Moses Lake Christian Academy. We are discussing local, state, national and world situations. Your paper gives us insight on some of the…
History repeats itself
If you didn't believe history repeats itself, all you have to do is compare our current situation to 1980. We had an ill-prepared progressive President Jimmy Carter. Just like Obama, he believed he could just talk …
Swing state dilemma
The national news media is stressing the importance of "Swing States" in the upcoming presidential election between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Marine auction organizers grateful
Thank you Moses Lake, we knew this town would not let us down.
Reader clarifies pedestrian, bicycle laws
First, to the nice couple enjoying a bike ride on the sidewalk in downtown Moses Lake: you are right that in most areas you are allowed to ride on the sidewalks. However, in checking the City of Moses Lake ordinanc…
Reader urges citizens to vote for job growth
Are you better off today than four years ago?
Reader advocates for good foreign policy
"Foreign policy," "domestic policy," "democracy," "Constitutional Republic," and "respect." Random words, or should we have great concern regarding what these words represent?
A new school for Othello
A school is the focal point of a community where learning, children and the town converge for the common goal of education.
Reader opposes Socialist values
The Socialist's mind worships the idea of Utopia. They live in the future, not in the now or the past. They never look back and own the Totalitarian chaos, deaths, imprisonments, tortures, starvations, poverty thei…
Reader calls out CBH for child abuse coverage
In light of recent articles in the newspaper regarding cases of child abuse in Grant County, I have been seriously disgusted with the way this news has been handled. Since when is it okay to violate the privacy of …
Reader decries left-leaning education
A recent edition of the CBH provided two good examples of the product of our failed educational system. Both letters to the editor intimate that of the two major political parties, only the liberals stand for advan…
Reader ponders pipeline problem
What all the political hype basically means, regarding the presumed benefit, necessity and urgency of constructing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline shortcut (a Keystone pipeline already exists), is that we would b…
Reader responds to Clay's wolf claims
I would like to refute some outrageous claims Dennnis Clay has been making about wolves in this paper. He says he is looking forward to wolves in our state being removed from the "endangered" list. Mr. Clay states …