Barbara Nichols Lewis: Mental health counseling is, in my personal opinion, at the top of the list of importance, especially in middle school.'
Christy Fisher: Let’s see — isn’t that roughly the same amount the district had to pay in fines to the state for fraudulent Medicaid study claims last year?
Ken Coultard: Mental health counselors are on the front line, very important, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Readers respond on Facebook to story detailing growing shortage in troopers in the Washington State Patrol:
Alexander Galloway: I would much rather see more state troopers than city police. Retrain the most successful of some of the unnecessarily oppressive precincts to be state troopers. We need more respectable law enforcement in our state. We do not need any more city police officers.
Mike Morrow: Their requirements are way too strict and their pay is weak. You can become a federal officer easier than a WSP.
Haley Mae Morgan: In conclusion: Pay the officers the exact same salaries that the other officers make in this state and then maybe they won’t leave their jobs here. Simple. Why is this even a problem now?
Lou Oliver: Here ya have it. People not willing to take a job they would love to help their community, but because the liberal leaders will not stand beside them it is causing a vacancy. What now liberals? Elect more of these brain-dead leaders?
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“You find a lot of folks who don’t mind the locked gates because it allows them to get into a less crowded area and makes for a better hunt,” he said.
Locked gates are one thing, closed lands another. Companies like Weyerhaeuser and Jorgensen Timber continue to land lock areas that are owned by other companies, both corporate and private. This locks out everyone from bird watchers to hikers from otherwise open access lands. Even our own Washington State DNR has parcels that you and I can no longer walk on due to this aggressive timber company practice. The kicker is these companies still enjoy paying a fraction of the property tax we do because of what used to be “open access to the public” policy that now no longer exists in many places.
