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Updated 1 week, 2 days ago

Celebrating National Library Week

What brings you joy? For me, it’s driving through our beautiful region to visit our branch libraries, serving ice …

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Reader: vote for Tom Dent

Tom Dent is currently running for our 13th District representative for the state of Washington. Because of elections and serendipity, I have been gifted the blessing to get to spend an enormous amount time with the…

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Didier will support gun rights

If Dan Newhouse is pro-gun as he wants us to believe; why did he refuse to answer the "National Association for Gun Rights" questionnaire? And will Mr. Newhouse, being supported by our Congressman Doc Hastings, vot…

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Didier is the right choice

The Fourth Congressional District seat election has presented an interesting twist, the top two vote-getters in the primary have advanced to the general election regardless of party. Clint Didier and Dan Newhouse, …

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Respect for the law and the role of a prosecutor

I'm writing this to encourage voters in Grant County to vote for Garth Dano for prosecutor. Do not consider this an endorsement, as I have no idea how Mr. Dano…

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Dano has owned up to mistakes

I have been especially interested in the county prosecutor's race for the past couple of months. Initially I wasn't sure who I would vote for. Recent events have finally persuaded me to vote for Garth Dano.

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Same Old Story

Every two years at election time we get to hear the Democrat Party throw out all their lies about Republicans and conservatives. It is very sad to witness their usual attempt to scare voters and sway them to vote f…

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Didier took the high road.

The Dan Newhouse campaign has taken the withdrawal of Clint Didier's lawsuit to claim some kind of victory and called the suit baseless and frivolous. In fact, the basis for the suit was absolute fact, as the Direc…

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Vote no on 594

594 is far too invasive of our right of privacy. If you want to borrow or loan a gun to a friend to go hunting you must make a loan through a gun dealer, pay the gun dealer a fee (set by the gun dealer), register t…

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Bolyard will do a good job

Dani Bolyard is the best choice to represent Washington's 13th legislative district in Olympia. Here's one reason why.

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Newhouse is the man for the job

The election is nearly upon us. I have followed many elections in my lifetime and find the 4th District Congressional race the most distressing. There is,in my opinion, really only one sane and reasonable man for t…

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Who's at fault?

Who investigates when an officer injures a citizen by force or with a weapon? Throughout the years, everywhere somebody has been shot because they say they're a threat are we going by how one looks or what ethnic g…

Updated 11 years, 6 months ago
Private, personal lives being used as political pawns

I remember well the day my father, Garth Dano, called me and said, "Nicole, I'm thinking about running against Angus Lee for the position of county prosecutor. How do you feel about that?" He, in fact, made several…

Updated 11 years, 6 months ago
Clint Didier has what it takes to 'turn us around'

America is being destroyed by the radical far left. The philosophy of Saul Alinsky and Cloward - Piven have taken over our Universities, our News Media and even our Executive branch of Government. Federal bureaucra…

Updated 11 years, 6 months ago
Son commends father's integrity

Recently I had the displeasure of seeing some unpleasant public claims against my father. Let's clear some of that up.

Updated 11 years, 6 months ago
Garth Dano's son vouches for his dad's character

Honor. Courage. Commitment. Those are the three fundamental core values that every single Marine is taught, as well as encouraged to reaffirm in his or her behavior, conduct, and performance every minute of every d…