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 …
GRANT COUNTY COURTS
I’m writing in concern of our judicial system in Grant County. I’m currently being held on a burglary, where I’m going to trial and another case of a driving while license suspended in the first degree and alleged …
Budget ideas
We asked readers to suggest ways for the state to correct their budget woes. Some letter writers offer thoughtful ideas, while some bloggers just argued.
STATE BUDGET
There are going to have to be cuts in state spending, there’s no way around it. What shouldn’t be cut are essential services like law enforcement, corrections, education and emergency response. Everything else shou…
STATE BUDGET
Quit hiring state workers and let the 7,800 new hires go back to work for the private sector.
STATE BUDGET
I was encouraged to read in your editorial last week that Governor Gregoire reads the Columbia Basin Herald. At your editorial board meeting with the governor, she asked for suggestions to solve the state budget cr…
CHEMTRAILS
The end of an era and the beginning of the next is always a difficult passage, especially for those who lived most of their lives in the era that is ended. The sky in the Columbia Basin this week and last week is t…
STATE BUDGET
Its time to recall our governor and also all the Democrats in Olympia. No body down there wants to listen to the people and I thought that is why we put them there was to represent us and not for there own agenda.
GRANT COUNTY COURTS
Thank you Linda T. for writing your letter for the paper. I agree with you along with many other Grant County citizens about there is no justice in Grant County.
THANKS
I would like to say, “thank you,” to the kind gentleman who was behind me at a stop light on Pioneer Way Monday afternoon of last week. He got out of his car, in traffic, came up to my window to let me know I had a…
DR. KIMURA
On Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, published in the Columbia Basin Herald in a negative article about one of the most dedicated and wonderful physician that Moses Lake ever had and that is Dr. Irene Kimura.
Budget quest
Gov. Chris Gregoire posed an interesting question while the Columbia Basin Herald editorial board visited with her in Olympia last week.
STATE BUDGET
Governor — $605 million more by taxing water, candy, gum, pop, tobacco, and oil products? Why stop there? Why not tax; coffee, tea, iPods and cellphones? Here’s a potential tax revenue. Why not tax the morons getti…
Grant PUD rate increase is shared
MOSES LAKE — Many residents of Grant County are unaware of what has happened recently at the Grant County PUD. For the first time in over 20 years, residents are not at the top of the rate increase list. This time,…
Moses Lake pharmacist thanks patrons
MOSES LAKE — On behalf of the entire staff of the Moses Lake Food Pavilion Pharmacy (now closed), I would like to use this medium to express my sincere appreciation to all of the medical providers in Grant County. …
Supporting doc
Moses Lake doctor Irene Kimura was recently placed on probation by the state Department of Health. They accused her of mismanaging a patient when diagnosing her with asthmatic bronchitis.