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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…
Readers like Bailey for director
We wish to express our support for Bill Bailey as the new director of the Moses Lake irrigation district.
Reader endorses Bill Bailey, sites partnership
I have known Bill Bailey for many years and was a business partner with him for several years. He is an intelligent man and running for a position on the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District (MLIRD) va…
Reader is voting for Mick Hansen
In last week's paper I read that the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District directors extended Mr. Carpenter's contract for another five years. The first strange thing in this that his current contract d…
Reader, former director supports Hansen
This is what I don't like. Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District (MLIRD) has a permit for 5 years in order to remove the silt east of the Alder Street fill using a dredge. For the last year management c…
Reader asks about county commissioner
In regards to the Nov. 15 Associated Press (AP) article "Community group claims dairy polluted water," I would like to direct your and your readers' attention to a Seattle Times article from 2004 titled "Farmers pu…
Reader wants remembrance day honored
Gov. Christine Gregoire has proclaimed Dec. 7 as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day to honor those who were killed or wounded on that fateful day in 1941, with all state and federal office buildings to lower the flags to…
EDITORIAL: Obama makes it clear
Transparent government is necessary for an honest government.
Reader thinks ballot process is too complex
I went to the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District office to apply for an absentee ballot.
GUEST EDITORIAL: SMALL BUSINESSES: 'Count us out governor'
SEATTLE - A special session of the Washington Legislature opened Nov.r 28 for the purpose of finding some big-dollar, Christmas gift cards to plug the expected deficit in the state budget. Shortly before, the big b…
Bill Bailey is the choice of this reader
I am writing this letter in support of Bill Bailey for the director of the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District. Bill has been involved with the district for years and knows its mission. He has confide…
Reader grateful for police efforts
I am writing to express my appreciation for the diligence, cooperation and success of the combined efforts of Grant County sheriff's deputies and Moses Lake police in reporting, investigating, patrolling, apprehend…
Reader appreciates apology
I was asked by city council member Karen Liebrecht if I could come to the Nov. 8 city council meeting. It was a very friendly and gracious phone call and she explained why she hoped I would come. She is a small bus…
Reader thanks trooper
I got a call at 06:30 this morning. My wife was on I-90 with a flat on one of her new studded tires. I was getting ready to leave on the rescue mission, when I got a text that the spare was flat, also.
EDITORIAL: Picking losers
A common mantra during the debates about bailing out the financial industry and Detroit automakers was that the federal government was "picking winners and losers," with the recipients of Washington's cash being th…
Reader endorses Bill Bailey
Bill Bailey is the right man for the job! Please, join me and cast your vote for a true leader on Dec. 13. Having attended several board meetings of the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District I feel tha…