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Updated 1 week, 6 days ago

Celebrating National Library Week

What brings you joy? For me, it’s driving through our beautiful region to visit our branch libraries, serving ice …

Updated 14 years, 3 months ago
A closer look at the state's debt

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Updated 14 years, 3 months ago
Power grab

Former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray is a good choice to head the nation's new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the manner of his appointment by President Barack Obama is so constitutionally and le…

Updated 14 years, 3 months ago
Misfired blame

Would a sign saying "No Weapons" have stopped Benjamin Barnes from trying to hide out in Mount Rainier National Park? Hard to believe, but some people think so.

Updated 14 years, 3 months ago
Iran continues ...

Just a few days ago, Iran publicly hailed the U.S. Navy's timely rescue of 13 Iranian fishermen held captive for 40 days by Somali pirates as "a humanitarian gesture."

Updated 14 years, 3 months ago
State budget outlook: Not good

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Updated 14 years, 3 months ago
GUEST EDITORIAL: New taxes put carbon reductions at risk

OLYMPIA - Everyone wants to help the environment, but blindly following trendy environmental fads can often do more harm than good. Eco-fads squander precious resources and waste the opportunity to adopt more benef…

Updated 14 years, 3 months ago
EDITORIAL: Russian thaw

It may be winter in Moscow but the Arab Spring seems to have thawed the patience of the public if the response to the spontaneous demonstration at the capital is any indicator.

Updated 14 years, 3 months ago
EDITORIAL: Much longer stay

As our troops have just spent another Christmas in Afghanistan, there should be no surprise that the US commander in Kabul has sent what is described as the most emphatic signal yet from a senior American official …

Updated 14 years, 3 months ago
EDITORIAL: Silent victory

President Barack Obama recently signed into law the measure that extends a 2 percentage-point Social Security withholding for two months so that congressional negotiators will be able to hash out an agreement to co…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader wants justice

I've written letters to Grant County committee concerning my injuries I received by a police officer. I was charged like a criminal an given two strikes. This was all a cover up to charge me to cover up beating I r…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
GUEST EDITORIAL: Fire chief asks for help to stop thieves

MOSES LAKE - In the last three months Grant County Fire District 5 has had an alarming increase of break-ins at our Volunteer Stations - Station 5 twice (Wheeler and Road Q), Station 2 (Mae Valley Road) and Station…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
EDITORIAL: A different take

The unexpected death of Kim Jong-il, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, took the world by surprise.

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
EDITORIAL: Health care fairness

The health care reform law passed last year requires insurers to offer, at a minimum, a set of "essential" benefits to individuals and small groups, including coverage for hospitalization, outpatient care and presc…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
EDITORIAL: Bad business

It's a nice try. But don't expect it to go anywhere, except the trash can.

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
GUEST EDITORIAL: MLBA did not choose the Spokane band

MOSES LAKE - I was so excited to read that the Moses Lake Business Association's message of Shop Local is being heard!  Many of the merchants in LakeTown Landing - Moses Lake's Downtown Shopping District reported t…