Sometimes it feels like I’m in the twilight zone.
We now have a new, lifetime-appointed U.S. Supreme Court justice who couldn’t define what a woman is in her hearing. …
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By John McCroskey / For The Chronicle
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7/13/22
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I know I’ve touched on this topic before, but I’ll try to express it again, hopefully in different words.
As any person who can still remember old radio programs will tell you, they …
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7/13/22
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Ever since gas prices shot into the stratosphere, I’ve been hearing a chorus of apologists declare that elected officials aren’t responsible for high gas prices.
Well, I happen to be …
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By Sen. Jeff Wilson, R-Longview
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7/11/22
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I am reading, for the third time, a book called “Credibility, How Leaders Gain and Lose it” by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner.
My last column was focused on character. …
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7/11/22
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Remember how state government had a $15 billion budget surplus during this year’s legislative session? At the time, I and other Republicans said some of that should be returned to the people, …
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By Sen. Lynda Wilson
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7/11/22
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Fifty years after his birth in 1825 in Germany, Joseph Salzer settled nearly 5,300 miles away in a valley 3 miles southeast of Centralia that now bears his name.
He and his wife, Anna Marie, …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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7/11/22
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Due perhaps to the dawning realization that they are losing, school choice opponents are now claiming, in desperation, that using vouchers as a tool to provide children with an education is racist.
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By Liv Finne / The Washington Policy Center
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7/10/22
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We’re hitting our stride in Lewis County with the annual summer parade and festival season. Our diverse agricultural heritage has given us a wonderful range of events that directly tie to …
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By Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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7/8/22
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Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson is creating a statewide Organized Retail Crime Theft Task Force. It remains to be seen whether it will make progress or become just one more committee …
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By The Seattle Times Editorial Board
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7/7/22
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Growing up, many of us heard home ownership was an essential part of the “American Dream.” I still believe that to be true. It is part of a family’s retirement planning, security …
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By State Rep. Peter Abbarno
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7/6/22
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When our friends in Great Britain open their eyes in the morning, many parts of their day look a lot like what we see here in Washington.
The Association of Washington Business led a trade mission …
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By Kris Johnson / Association of Washington Business
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7/6/22
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One of these days our weather will settle down and behave itself the way it used to. Remember?
For instance, the lady who used to own the mobile home I now inhabit had planted a good supply of …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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7/6/22
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As the nation’s bicentennial celebration approached in 1976, members of the Salzer Valley Homemakers decided to reopen the historic one-room school so local fourth graders could see how their …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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7/6/22
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Whether a volunteer or draftee, each and every veteran signed a document agreeing to sacrifice his or her life during service for the United States of America.
That makes a veteran different …
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By Kathy A. Heimbigner
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7/1/22
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“Summertime, and the living is easy...”
— George and Ira Gershwin
I’m a bit of a contrarian when it comes to summer. I’m happy with overcast and …
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By Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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7/1/22
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You’ll probably be reading this at least a week or more after I’ve written it, so I can only assume that, just maybe, summer is finally here.
We can only guess how long it will be …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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6/29/22
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While walking home from a Rainbow Girls meeting, Carol Matteson and her friends accepted a ride from a handsome young man, Richard “Dick” Ponder.
“And next thing I knew, he …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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6/27/22
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So many of the problems in our world today seem larger than life; far away but looming ominously as they cast a pall over our future and a threat over the present day.
In a way, the latest villain of …
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By Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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6/24/22
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Efforts are ramping up to control the explosion of invasive European green crab (Carcinus maenas) in western Washington.
The invasive species reached San Francisco in 1989 and was first detected …
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Commentary by Ed Johnstone
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6/24/22
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I don’t suppose there’s a policy on when you can stop thinking about something as serious as the coronavirus once you’ve come into personal familiarity with it, but here — and …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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6/22/22
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