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COLUMN: College football playoff selection was a mess
It’s not a normal day in December if college football teams are not throwing their hands in the air after being le…
The beginnings of spring within your winter
Dec. 21 was the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year – not much daylight. On that evening, there was a worship service held at the Moses Lake United M…
Support Trump in keeping jobs in America
President-elect Donald Trump has a proposed 35 percent tax on businesses that want to leave our country for another, and I believe it is something that we should all wholeheartedly support.
School bond is too expensive
The Moses Lake School Board is proposing a $135 million school bond for the February ballot. We are currently paying off three school bonds that go into 2028 which are worth around $25 million. If the proposed scho…
Current state of affairs is offensive
A letter published on Jan. 5, 2017 stated my letter was “offensive and less than enlightening,” and that Moses Lake is an “urban city.” I lived more than 36 years in the Los Angeles metro area, four near Denver, an…
Big Bend's STEM grant boosts options
A $4.8 million STEM grant Big Bend Community College was awarded helps secure students’ futures. STEM, short for science, technology, engineering and math, is a field that offers higher wages to workers, according …
A lesson learned from an unlikely source
I fill my two bird feeders in the morning. One contains nyjer or thistle seed; the goldfinches favor these. The other has sunflower seed. A variety of birds ar…
Force lawmakers to live up to McCleary ruling
The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that the state is derelict in underfunding public K-12 education (McCleary vs. Wash., 2012).
Electoral College versus the majority
I feel compelled to respond to a letter I read in the editorial section of the Dec. 22 Columbia Basin Herald by Thomas Fancher titled: Preserve the Constitution, Electoral College.
Make use of remote testimony options
Instead of going to the government, make the government come to you.
The Brave New World ain't all bad
I should have seen it coming, given the fact that we now have a definition called the Millennials (also known as Generation Y, Generation Me, Echo Boomers, Pet…
Greedy CEOs should be held accountable
In 2008 the financial collapse shredded social cohesion: 9 million Americans lost their jobs, 5 million lost their homes and unemployment doubled. Making trillions through fraudulent business on Wall Street mattere…
Happy New Year to the people who take the joy out of the holidays
To the person who removed Christmas lights from my front yard during the holiday season, happy New Year. Jehovah knows who you are.
The time for charitable giving should be for all times
There are 12 days of Christmas — a season that extends from Dec. 25 to Jan. 25
Actress Carrie Fisher, another shooting star leaves us in 2016
“Saw a shooting star tonight, and I thought of you …” I don’t know how I will feel when Bob Dylan finally leaves this world, but I thought of his words as I s…
Caring about others is not a sign of weakness
I once had a friend tell me, “Don’t mistake my compassion as a sign of weakness.”