Opinion
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Celebrating National Library Week
What brings you joy? For me, it’s driving through our beautiful region to visit our branch libraries, serving ice …
Recycling Program
Reader unhappy with added cost
Candidates' turn
The Columbia Basin Herald continues to ask candidates to write guest editorials.
Tough call
Our children are angels. They would never do anything bad.
Elections to determine PUD direction
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Supreme court justice seeks re-election
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School names should honor local icons
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Tea Party
Reader unhappy with bigotry accusations
Affordable
If there’s an industry that can afford to pay a tax to clean up its mess, it’s the oil industry.
Rotten Apple
Soon after Apple released the latest iPhone last month, consumers found that holding the phone in the usual manner — palm against the back, fingers along the sides — can reduce the device’s signal strength to nil. …
Too PC
Political correctness has sprouted another ugly branch in the form of an edict from President Barack Obama.
Thanks
Reader appreciates help
Bernd talks of work at Grant PUD
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Fed failure
The federal government sued the state of Arizona over its controversial immigration law, arguing that enforcing immigration laws is a federal responsibility.
Iron curtain
The U.S. Department of Defense should certainly be embarrassed by Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s career-ending derisive remarks about the administration in a controversial Rolling Stone story.
Cuba's pawns
Cuba’s promise to free 52 political prisoners in the coming weeks and months should be greeted, without qualification, as a positive development. Opening the cell doors for prisoners of conscience in Cuba’s wretche…