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 …
STATE BUDGET
First if you are going to cut expenses anywhere, you should be willing to cut those in your own offices. How much money is spent on our elected officials on parties, dinners, lunches, transportation, etc., that can…
STATE BUDGET
First let me say that a sales tax is the most fair tax our state has. It is paid by the end consumer. If I can afford to purchase a new Lincoln car, I pay more tax than my friend who can only afford to buy a used T…
Bugging us
There is something bugging us about the state’s new idea on protecting mosquitoes.
TOBACCO SALES
Earlier this year the legislature passed Senate Bill 5340, which made it illegal to order most tobacco products on the internet or by mail-order in order to prevent children from getting these products. This was do…
MOSQUITOES
Whoa! What a great turnout for the public hearing in Moses Lake on the update to the Aquatic Mosquito Control General Permit. We count this large attendance as a sign of a successful public process. At the same tim…
THANKS
I would like to thank Mike and John with First Choice Restoration. In November I had a water leak in my home. I contacted a company I found in the phone book that advertised water and mold detection and prevention.…
Bill gives free pass to bad decisions
EPHRATA — State Sen. Rosa Franklin, D-South Tacoma, sponsored Senate bill 5516 that “would cut down on deaths from drug-related overdoses by discontinuing the prosecution of people who alert hospitals or police if …
Childish
The idiom that children should be seen and not heard is probably nowhere more appropriate than in an air traffic control tower. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case at John F. Kennedy Airport in February.
Teachers need tool to remove bad teachers
OLYMPIA — Gov. Chris Gregoire is promoting her education bill, SB 6696, as an effort to improve Washington schools and give the state a shot at a share of the $4.3 billion available through President Obama’s Race t…
AGRICULTURE
Where does your food come from?
TEA PARTY
Feb. 27 was the one year anniversary of the fastest growing nationwide grassroots movement in our country since the Revolutionary War. That movement is collectively known as “The TEA Party” movement. Millions of Am…
Un-American?
A recent attack ad put out by Keep America Safe, a conservative national security organization headed by Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, twists the very values it purports to defend.
Gun rights
State governments can and should enact gun regulations that increase the public’s safety, but Americans do have an individual right to own them.
BUSINESSES
I have lived in Moses Lake for 13 years; And in that time there have been many businesses move in and out of a building on West Main. But this one sure take the cake.
Don't scoop funds from injured
SEATTLE — The Governor has proposed — and the House and Senate appear poised to agree to — the scooping of $2 million from the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Account, established pursuant to the Tommy Manning Act (RC…