Opinion
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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…
A message from the Grant Co. Committee of Safety
This election is different from all others we have seen in our lives. National security, health care, jobs, immigration, education, and taxes are all items where the two candidates have totally different thinking. …
Choice of president matters
Does it matter who becomes president?
Helping our local community
Our country is currently electing public officials to look after the common good. It isn’t only people in elected office, however, who provide important public service. Every town is blessed with persons who serve …
Estudillo demonstrates competency and professionalism
I voted for Judge Estudillo. This spring I served on a jury for a criminal trial in Grant County, over which Judge Estudillo presided. It was a long, complicated trial, so I was able to observe him in his work envi…
Think about it
As you Clinton supporters sit around and wonder what color pantsuit Hillary will wear to her inaugural ball, you need to consider some important questions. Do you really want a return to the days of daily scandals …
Trump: a vote for protection
Protect our unborn babies.
Vote rallies - life, liberty, property
The Grant County Committee of Safety will be sponsoring rallies Friday (Oct. 28 - 3-6 p.m.) and Saturday (Oct. 29 - 10-6 p.m.) to encourage people to carefully study, research, and consider candidates and initiativ…
Armed with faith: Movie shows World War II exploits of unarmed medic
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When Desmond Doss climbed up Hacksaw Ridge — a 400-foot high escarpment on the island of Okinawa with a wall of dug in Japanese soldiers at …
All creatures great and small
“Then the Lord said, ‘And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do n…
Legislators long overdue in funding education
“It is the paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all students…” (Article IX, Section 1, Washington State Constitution).
A Clinton presidency would be disastrous
All those in the “Never Trump” crowd please consider what damage our country will experience with a Clinton victory. The Supreme Court will become dominated by six or seven liberal justices. Disastrous Obamacare wi…
Wallace's attacks on Estudillo groundless, bigoted
I’m tired of politics. But there’s still one race holding my attention, the race for the Superior Court Judge position currently held by Judge David Estudillo. Attorney Nick Wallace is trying to unseat him.
Nick Wallace in his own words
Tired of all the election campaigning? Me too! I just want to thank all of you who have helped me in so many ways. And thank you, voters of Grant County, for giving your attention to my campaign. I look forward to …
Estudillo has shown himself to be a good judge
It has been my privilege to serve as your District Court judge for the past 25-plus years. I was born and raised in Quincy, where I grew up on the family ranch.
Open government wins in Lincoln County
The statewide watchdog group, the Washington Coalition for Open Government, honored Lincoln County commissioners with a Key Award for approving a resolution in September that opened negotiations with county union e…