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Editorial

To find our opinion based editorials, see below. We'll share opinion based editorial articles regularly for interested viewers.

Updated 6 days, 8 hours ago

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…

Updated 15 years, 3 months ago
Online clarity

Anyone venturing into the Internet knows their online life is an open book. Forgive the mixed metaphor, but the knowledge virtually every keystroke is being monitored is both understood and wearing thin.

Updated 15 years, 3 months ago
Better ways

If you ever travel by commercial airline, you know the drill: Provide ID, take off shoes, put change, keys and cellphones in the bin, and step through the metal detector. Like a bum knee, it’s a pain, but one you’v…

Updated 15 years, 3 months ago
Responsibility

Republicans swept into power across much of the country, gaining control of the House and more seats in the Senate. What’s more, they won key governors’ races, including victories in swing states like Michigan and …

Updated 15 years, 3 months ago
Time to vote

We have our ballots and our state voters pamphlet in hand, and it's time to vote.

Updated 15 years, 3 months ago
GUEST EDITORIAL: Baker addresses advertising

MOSES LAKE — Please don’t be alarmed by the ad run in the CBH news paper, money is no object in the incumbents campaign. This ad is using Innuendos to suggest that Ron Baker is involved in a deception on campaign f…

Updated 15 years, 3 months ago
GUEST EDITORIAL: Clough writes of support for veterans

KENNEWICK — There have been a number of contentious issues in this campaign. I’d like to take this chance to explain exactly where the contention comes from on a couple of these issues.

Updated 15 years, 4 months ago
Letters

We’ve been getting a lot of calls and e-mails here at the Columbia Basin Herald about an election-related letter that we printed last Thursday. In the letter, a supporter of Sheriff DeTrolio speculated on opponent …

Updated 15 years, 4 months ago
Free speech, hard decisions and one letter

MOSES LAKE — “Freedom isn’t free.”

Updated 15 years, 7 months ago
Candidates' turn

The Columbia Basin Herald continues to ask candidates to write guest editorials.

Updated 15 years, 7 months ago
Elections to determine PUD direction

GUEST EDITORIAL

Updated 15 years, 7 months ago
Supreme court justice seeks re-election

GUEST EDITORIAL

Updated 15 years, 7 months ago
Too PC

Political correctness has sprouted another ugly branch in the form of an edict from President Barack Obama.

Updated 15 years, 7 months ago
Bernd talks of work at Grant PUD

GUEST EDITORIAL

Updated 15 years, 7 months ago
Washington doesn't need an income tax

GUEST EDITORIAL

Updated 15 years, 7 months ago
Sheriff candidate Tom Jones diagnosed with leukemia

Says he won't drop out of the race