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Opinion

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Updated 2 weeks ago

COLUMN: An honor to be on the fire line

As reporters, we spend a lot of time telling other people's stories. Every once in a while, though, you find yours…

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
Cannabis businesses a plus for the community

It is very disappointing and frustrating to see Grant County have such an extreme proposed pull-back on a new economic driver like legal cannabis has had on new jobs and investment in the local area community.

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
A vote 'no' is not a vote against education

There have been many “voices of reason and common sense” written as letters to the editor giving facts as to why the third school bond is too expensive and makes no sense. One such letter written by Scott Hudson po…

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
Trump is America's downfall

So sad to say the land of opportunity is no more since the election of our new president Donald Trump and Republicans that value his racist views. He wants a wall between Mexico and the United States. Why not a wal…

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
School bond is short-sighted

Regarding the upcoming bond proposal, I am concerned that the needs of our most valuable assets, our children, are not best being served.

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
Federal employees must not be silenced

I am outraged at the communications lock-down the President of the United States has placed on the EPA, and the departments of Agriculture and Interior. This is of no benefit and is, in fact, harmful to the America…

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
The crystal ball

If this community accepts a substandard academic environment for our own children, then we have not learned the lessons from our forefathers, and we should all be ashamed. Our forefathers had the ability to look in…

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
Public schools are the backbone of America's success

As military brats, my sister and I attended government (U.S. Army) schools in Germany and at Fort Ord, Calif. We also went to public schools in Fayetteville, N.C. Tacoma, Wash., Lakewood, Wash., Monterey, Calif. an…

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
Using buildings year round might be an option

For the third time, the school administration and the school board are extensively (and expensively) advertising a bond. Last time, they said that if we did not approve the bond that the school buildings would be u…

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
No headline

How be the children?

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
I want and I waste: being stewards of God's world

Jeanne and I do most of our shopping locally. We also order through Amazon. We have found this to be very convenient.

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
I found no rattlesnakes in the snow

In the fall, a friend took me down the Yakima River in his boat. He had been a fishing guide for many years and knew the river like the back of his hand.

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
Taxes are out of control

First and foremost I want to thank the Columbia Basin Herald for the editorial part of the newspaper. Where taxpayer citizens can express their views. I am a retired person on a fixed income and to my shock I recei…

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
Vote yes for schools

I would like to thank the school board, the school administrators and the volunteers who put all their time in studying and planning the needs of our great schools.

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
Trump needs to get serious about presidency

Many people elected Donald Trump for entertainment, not to be a serious president. Even I myself get a good laugh at my new president. But bullying and provoking other countries to war is no laughing matter.

Updated 9 years, 5 months ago
Cost of school bond is little compared to return

Friends and neighbors in the Moses Lake School District, Feb. 14 is a day we express our love to a special person in our life, but this upcoming Valentine’s Day you will have the opportunity to show some love in an…