Editorial
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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…
Foundation for good salmon plan
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Entitled?
We wish conservatives in Congress lots of luck in their campaigns to reduce government spending and reform the new national health care law. Public opinion polls on the health care measure make it clear that while …
Voters deserve better than broken promises
Better learn
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said this about education: "Maintaining our leadership in research and technology is crucial to America's success. But if we want to win the future - if we …
Grant PUD addresses misconceptions
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A New Year's resolution for U.S. government
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Reader makes suggestions for economy
GOVERNMENT, Reader writes of Senate, Congress
Washington is broken and arcane. Senate rules, such as the filibuster, are being abused to halt progress. Unprecedented obstructionism in the Senate, has blocked Congress from taking real action to protect working …
MLIRD director thanks voters, staff
Leaving Afghanistan
Although President Barack Obama did his best to put a positive spin on the review of the Afghanistan war released, the report itself offers scant hope that the United States can achieve its goals within an acceptab…
Who's next?
If you step back and look at it dispassionately, perhaps you won’t be surprised that President Barack Obama has fallen rather “low” in the popularity polls.
Pain before taxes
Washington state faces a $4.6 billion shortfall due to declining revenue.
Bad call
From the start, the Obama administration made a weak case for trying terror suspects in civilian courts. Last week's acquittal of Ahmed Ghailani on 284 of 285 counts in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya …
Good news
The dramatic turnaround story of General Motors has etched another milestone with a successful stock market offering, reducing the government's ownership share well below the crucial 50 percent mark.
Real stimulus
Federal power grabs called "stimulus" bills haven't worked. Hanging carrots outside banks hasn't done it. Now the Federal Reserve is going to try to stimulate the economy with a $600 billion bond purchase it hopes …