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Updated 5 days, 4 hours ago

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: On affordability, both sides are failing us...

Last year, we started running a weekly news piece on the cost of fuel in our area. We examined average costs for f…

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
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.

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Make use of remote testimony options

Instead of going to the government, make the government come to you.

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
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…

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
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…

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
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.

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
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

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
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…

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
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.”

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
Seniors, Social Security recipients deserve better

It’s a shame and down right disgrace the way the United States of America treats its seniors on Social Security. The Republican Party call seniors and people on Social Security lazy. There’s nothing lazy about seni…

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
Preserve the Constitution, Electoral College

Any attempt to destroy the Electoral College is an assault on the U.S. Constitution and Republic. We are not a democracy. Schools deliberately don’t teach the difference. The Constitution was written to protect peo…

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
My father continues to teach me

On the 14th of December, my father celebrated his 97th birthday.

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
CBH Facebook Live ushers in a new way of doing things

All right, I admit. I am slowly crawling into the 21st century now that we’re 15 years into it.

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
Moses Lake High School class of '61 thankful for reunion help

The Class of ’61 held their 55-year reunion on the weekend of Sept. 16. It was a great success, as always. Each reunion seems to get even better than the last. Our class started with 199 graduating and we had 42, …

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
A time for war, a time for peace

Ecclesiastes 3: 1, 8b — “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven… A time for war, and a time for peace.”

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
A time for healing for Soap Lake

Soap Lake has gone through much turmoil this year.