Life gets “curiouser and curiouser,” not to mention “scarier and scarier.”
So, we are adjusting to COVID-19. Then there is always Ukraine. Throw in the slaughter of …
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6/8/22
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Harold Kushner, the rabbi, author and teacher who wrote the best seller, “When Bad Things Happen to Good People,” wrote another book I reread recently.
The book is titled …
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6/6/22
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As I sat in a pew at Westminster Presbyterian Church for a funeral Saturday, I reflected on the season of loss experienced lately with COVID-19 deaths, fractured relationships, mass shootings of …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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6/6/22
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As if polar plunging into frigid Mayfield Lake with the Lewis County Icicle Brigade wasn’t enough, I decided to once again punish my body for a great cause; the Lewis County Law Enforcement …
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By Rep. Peter Abbarno
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6/6/22
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It’s hard to prepare for the future if you’re only checking the rearview mirror.
That’s why the AWB Institute has launched a new tool called FutureCast that provides employers, …
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By Kris Johnson / Association of Washington Business
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6/3/22
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I ended last week’s column with my admission that, in spite of the shots I’d received, I still contracted “the virus.”
Maybe it had been building all along, but I …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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6/1/22
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We are more.
I found this saying by Brian Stevenson, Equal Justice Project, in his book “Just Mercy” (there’s also a film by the same name starring Michael B. Jordan, and Jamie …
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By Richard Stride / For The Chronicle
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5/30/22
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Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part story. Read the first installment here.
Grace Klijnsma was 25 when she married Pieter “Peter” Andree on July 31, 1953, in …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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5/30/22
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the world, factory workers were humming along assembling products just after components were delivered. It was called “just-in-time” production. It was …
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5/27/22
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As an education fanboy, I often have opportunities to advise young people about their education options. As an educator at heart, I take these opportunities seriously, and I have given the question …
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By Jami Lund
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5/27/22
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I got scammed a week or so ago. And it was all because of my vanity.
I’d received an email from someone with a feminine name and I had assumed she was a sensible reader.
The message …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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5/25/22
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Hardly any morning goes by without yet another act of violence or tragedy in this country. That, or another act that makes no sense perpetrated by our own government.
Some of these are on the …
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By John McCroskey / For The Chronicle
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5/25/22
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As a young teenager, Grietje Klijnsma stood on a Heerenveen street in the northern part of The Netherlands and watched an Allied pilot eject from his airplane, but as he was dangling from his …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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5/23/22
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Today, if all goes according to plan, two Chronicle journalists will begin an epic trip down the Chehalis River.
Reporter Isabel Vander Stoep and photographer Jared Wenzelberger are beginning …
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5/20/22
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It may be because I deal with words that I hate to see them misused. And since I spent so many years in radio, also words that are mispronounced.
There’s no excuse for saying …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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5/18/22
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Gov. Jay Inslee and Sen. Patty Murray have their priorities backward when it comes to rebuilding Snake River salmon and steelhead runs. Instead of focusing on ripping out dams with fish passages and …
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By Don C. Brunell
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5/17/22
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Congressional aspirant Joe Kent appeared to side with Vladimir Putin on the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. He attracted a contingent of white nationalists from Idaho for a local town hall meeting …
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By The Chronicle Editorial Board
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5/16/22
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As we waited inside Corbet Theatre Saturday evening for the Centralia College production of the musical “Into the Woods” to begin, I perused the program listing the cast members and their …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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5/16/22
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PBS recently released a new documentary by Ken Burns focused on Benjamin Franklin. I hadn’t realized Benjamin Franklin and his son William were on opposite sides of the American Revolutionary …
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By Richard Stride / For The Chronicle
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5/13/22
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There are two songs that have been running through my brain this past week.
One of them was written in 1938 by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson for a Broadway show called “Knickerbocker …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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5/11/22
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