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GRANDMA GREEN SAYS: Exercise your right to vote
Regarding voting, or the lack thereof in Grant County, I read the Columbia Basin Herald’s edition of Aug. 20 to le…
Letter: Arby’s shows love for its customers
We went to Moses Lakes Arby’s on Maiers Road and they had the best service. Of course just the drive-thru was open because of the virus. We felt so loved. They told us “thank you for your support” and they had a si…
Letter: Papa John’s Pizza steps up for kids
There are a lot of great examples of people in our community stepping up and standing out during these challenging times. I would like to take this opportunity to recognize John and Angel Soler and their crew at Pa…
Guest column: Participate in the federal Snake River dams public process this week — the stakes are high
At this time of national emergency, I’m reminded of the now pervasive British slogan from World War II, “Keep calm and carry on,” as we try to recover a sense of normalcy in the midst of fighting the COVID-19 threa…
Letter: Why is gas so expensive?
I am wondering why we are paying higher gas prices in Moses Lake, when you can go to Ephrata, Quincy or even Tri-Cities and pay lower prices. My husband came through Tri-Cities last week and paid $2.61 at a Walmart…
CBH editorial: Circumstances call for community mindset
“We’ve gone crazy,” said a shopper out loud in a grocery store aisle lined with empty shelves. This shopper expressed what many other ordinary Americans have felt, the surprise and frustration at finding no potatoe…
Letter: No need to buy toilet paper in a panic
Whenever a crisis of magnitude occurs to a large group of us Homo sapiens, we quickly seem to agree to collectively “dumb down” in a response to it. This past week the mindless rush for “terlit paper,” as Archie Bu…
Letter: Schools should stick to academic subjects
Governor Inslee:
CBH Editorial: Responsible reaction to COVID-19
A new member of the coronavirus category called COVID-19 is at the top of the news here and about everywhere. The virus has so far claimed one life in Grant County and mobilized institutional resources against it.
Letter: Nobody’s perfect, but we try to do right
“Trump is no worse than his accusers.” Really? We recognize that all of us are imperfect. That said,
Who's the boss?
Who is the boss at the Othello School District? If you think that it’s the taxpayers via their duly elected representatives, think again. Our school district uses a system called Policy Governance. In practice, wha…
Letter: Concerns over coronavirus
There has been a lot of concern in the media about this so-called coronavirus. First there was SARS and now COVID-19. This is like germ warfare. To stop this people need to be contained and people have the right to…
Letter: Trump is no worse than his accusers
The only reason impeachment charges were brought against President Trump is because the radical part of the Democratic Party wants to hide the evils of the Obama/Clinton administrations, FBI and U.S. Justice Depart…
CBH editorial: Working together for Moses Lake water
It’s almost March, and spring is waiting in the wings. Here in Moses Lake, spring means changing our clocks and getting out the lawn furniture, and it is also when our eyes turn toward the big body of water for whi…
School staff have a responsibility to encourage students
Why do certain parts of the school staff not have a clue what they shouldn’t do? There’s a certain high school staff member who this week told a student that they were messing up. There’s no reason at all that the …
The unaccountable ones
I recently read a tweet that made perfect sense. It pointed out that if Roger Stone was indicted for lying to Congress, what about the lying done by Comey, Brennan, Clapper and many others? What about Hillary to th…