Editorial
To find our opinion based editorials, see below. We'll share opinion based editorial articles regularly for interested viewers.
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…
GUEST EDITORIAL: Not good enough
As Democrats and Republicans fall all over themselves trying to come up with ways not to raise payroll taxes on millions of Americans - all with an eye toward …
MLIRD director supports Hansen
MOSES LAKE - I support Mick Hansen for Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District (MLIRD) board.
GUEST EDITORIAL: Big Bend is at risk from state cuts
MOSES LAKE - Officials at Big Bend Community College recognize they have a message problem. The college is receiving recognition in the media for doing great t…
EDITORIAL: Well water tax
If you have a well, brace for a $200 annual surcharge - meaning tax, since you have no choice but to pay it.
GUEST EDITORIAL: Hansen writes of forum, saving the lake
MOSES LAKE - To the people that attended the candidates' forum on Tuesday, Nov. 29, sponsored by the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce, I want to explain my not being there.
GUEST EDITORIAL: Covey responds to Hansen about MLIRD
MOSES LAKE - Let's get right to the point. It has been said if one hears a lie long enough, they begin to believe it is the truth. To be very honest, I'm tired of the lies, half truths and misleading statements fro…
EDITORIAL: Obama makes it clear
Transparent government is necessary for an honest government.
GUEST EDITORIAL: SMALL BUSINESSES: 'Count us out governor'
SEATTLE - A special session of the Washington Legislature opened Nov.r 28 for the purpose of finding some big-dollar, Christmas gift cards to plug the expected deficit in the state budget. Shortly before, the big b…
EDITORIAL: Picking losers
A common mantra during the debates about bailing out the financial industry and Detroit automakers was that the federal government was "picking winners and losers," with the recipients of Washington's cash being th…
EDITORIAL: One step forward
When gridlock keeps you from moving forward, be careful not to slip back.
No taxation without representation
MOSES LAKE - As a resident business owner, tax payer, employer and longtime volunteer on many local boards, I see obvious reasons and many subtle cost-benefits of having a clean and healthy lake at the center of ou…
GUEST EDITORIAL: Farm Bills benefit more people than farmers
SPOKANE - Among many other pieces of legislation, Congress is debating the Farm Bill. Most of us don't farm but most of us should care about this legislation that comes before Congress every five years or so. Why s…
EDITORIAL: Super committee?
We can't say we're surprised by the failure of Congress' so-called super committee to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reductions. But we are disappointed. There is no joy in having Congress live down…
GUEST EDITORIAL: Concerns about Grant PUD rates, budget
MOSES LAKE - With the up coming 2012 Grant County PUD budget some observations of the PUD should be made. Grant County is very fortunate for the foresight that a handful of people had back in the 1950's that formed…
Budget solution
It is not hard to cut government budgets. It's really not.