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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 …
HEALTH CARE
A single-payer system for health care is the only way we can all have care because it will cut out profits going to insurance companies and drug corporations, it will cut out repetitious record keeping, and this wi…
Grant County Prosecutor
I did not intend to get involved in the Prosecutors election until I read Angus Lee’s response May 28, to Judge Jorgensen’s letter to the editor, May 14. I am endorsing Albert Lin for Prosecuting Attorney.
R-71
Where is the petition for R-71? I want to sign it, please! I think everyone else should sign it proudly too. This goes way beyond the issue of gay rights now with me. This is nothing more than a bully tactic to in…
MOSES LAKE SIGN ORDINANCE
After reading the paper and what appears to be a blatant disregard for what the people are saying they want (no ordinance) and what the City Council seems to intend to do (pass the ordinance regardless of what the …
Grant County Prosecutor
I worked as a Public Defender in Grant County for three years, and currently handle appeals from the District Court. I worked with Robert Schiffner on the defense side; I’ve probably contested 100 cases against Alb…
Grant County Prosecutor
I’m writing to support our present Prosecuting Attorney, D. Angus Lee. He has been in office since January, when he was unanimously appointed by the Grant County Commissioners. With his great knowledge of law and t…
GRANT COUNTY PROSECUTOR
Our Grant County prosecuting attorney needs to be one who has experience in superior, district and juvenile courts, as an attorney carrying out justice for all of us. Albert Lin became a deputy prosecutor 10 years …
GRANT COUNTY PROSECUTOR
Yea! Finally, we in Grant County have several people in the race for county prosecutor. I feel a need to finally tell what I learned when our daughter was in law school. She was raised in the Moses Lake school syst…
WASHINGTON
After being born and raised in a conservative-postured Washington State; I returned in 2005 to find liberal progressive San Francisco/ Sierra Club politics and morals running rampant. I have since corrected a big m…
PRESIDENT OBAMA
You are President of the United States, a country that I love and am proud to be a loyal citizen.
TEA PARTY
If you are concerned about the direction our country is headed, the time to stand up and be heard is now! Our Congress and President have decided we should be a socialist country and every day our government spends…
Grant County Prosecutor
I have served in Law Enforcement since 1998, and during this period of time I have, I investigated complaints, issued citations and infractions, and arrested people for crimes they committed.
EDUCATION FUNDING
The 2009 Legislature dealt with our state’s fiscal crisis in a way that sought to avoid lasting harm to public higher education. However, deep budget cuts and steep tuition increases have led some to speculate we …
TEA PARTY
My father, Sydney W. Bennett was killed in World War II on April, 19, 1945, in Italy. I was able to travel and see his grave. I stood where he encountered a German sniper’s bullet. He fell far away from home and hi…
Quincy resident writes of Crescent Bar
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