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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 …
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.”
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…
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…
My father continues to teach me
On the 14th of December, my father celebrated his 97th birthday.
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.
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, …
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.”