Amanda Baker McDougall: All the hardworking FFA and 4-H kids/livestock!
Calista Ripp: The diaper derby.
Lindsey Elliott: Agreed the FFA and 4-H kids! They work so hard all year round the fair is their stage to shine! Job well done to all those hard working kids!
Readers react on Facebook to Lewis County’s plans to purchase the property where the Star Tavern currently stands in Chehalis:
John Smith: Chehalis Avenue is getting ugly. Sorry to hear it. That’s a beautiful little building built in 1910. Tear it down.
Zach Hansen: Wow that sucks. Just goes to show the bar scene is not what it used to be.
Readers respond on Facebook to a New York Times story detailing congressional moves to soften regulations in the trucking industry:
Lawrence Marc Fogde: This is a very complex problem. I think that with the advent of the new rules for tracking individual drivers and their safety ratings (individually and as a company) the bad drivers are being forced out. As an example If you’re a small company with let’s say 10 drivers and you hire a real dog of a driver, that driver will drag down your entire company’s safety rating.
So as the number of bad drivers are forced out the trucking company’s need more “good drivers.” Until the balance of good drivers is matched with the increase in pay that is starting to happen the hours of service will naturally have to be increased in the short term. In time the hours will be adjusted again either up or down. Its a cycle.
Dottie Warren Narrance: Unless you are a driver you have no idea! So please hold your comments until you drive for a living. 80 hours or 70 are not all driving hours.
Barbara Nichols Lewis: My brother is a long haul truck driver, constantly driving back and forth across the United States. It’s already not an easy job. I hate to see this happen.
Dave Barr: Truck-involved accidents are up; Compared to what, are they up more than the increase of truck traffic, overall traffic? 2: truck involved vs. truck caused would make a big difference (and I assume the article would have BOLDLY stated caused if it were the case). Truck involved would imply cause by the other vehicle, texting, drowsy, stoned, etc. Then look at the drivers. Low pay means you have to drag the bottom sometimes to get seats filled and finally, with all the regulating of the owner operators, some have gotten out of trucking (meaning driver shortages) and some have gone to work for the corporations, who in turn make hefty political donations, so what did they really expect would happen?
