For a dozen years, Republican Third Congressional District U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler represented Southwest Washington in Congress with a focus on helping her constituents. Before that, she …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Nisqually Valley News
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4/30/24
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Today marks the 201st birthday of a Canadian woman whose loving selfless acts of service saved many lives throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Esther Pariseau was born April 16, 1823, on a farm …
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By Julie McDonald /For The Nisqually Valley News
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4/16/24
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Billy Frank Jr. walked on almost 10 years ago, but one of his most powerful lessons lives on: If we want to recover salmon, we must work together. All of us.
The Billy Frank Jr. Salmon Coalition …
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By Ed Johnstone/For The Nisqually Valley News
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3/26/24
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I’ve always been a fan of Amy Grant’s music, but I doubt I would have attended her concert last month if not for the movie “I Can Only Imagine.”
When I saw an ad about …
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By Julie McDonald/For The Nisqually Valley News
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3/26/24
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When Third District U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez said on a podcast that “nobody stays awake at night worrying about the Southern border,” the words appalled attorney Leslie Lewallen, …
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Julie McDonald/For The Nisqually Valley News
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2/20/24
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Although the Washington state Republican Party has officially endorsed Joe Kent in the race for Third Congressional District, lifelong Republican Leslie Lewallen said she’s a better choice if …
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Commentary by Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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2/12/24
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I love to read; I especially enjoy reading history. A while back, I wrote about who is the real Lone Ranger. You can find it somewhere on the Chronicle’s website if you are interested. In that …
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By Richard Stride
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2/6/24
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Editor’s Note: Columnist Julie McDonald previously wrote a three-part series based on an interview with Republican congressional candidate Joe Kent. That series, and the first two parts of her …
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By Julie McDonald/Special to the Nisqually Valley News
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1/30/24
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Editor’s Note: Columnist Julie McDonald previously wrote a three-part series based on an interview with Republican congressional candidate Joe Kent. That series, and the first part of her …
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By Julie McDonald
For the Nisqually Valley News
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1/23/24
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People of my generation and a bit younger probably remember Aesop’s fable “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.” The moral it taught was that living in poverty with security is …
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By Maureen Harkcom
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12/19/23
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By Julie McDonald
For The Nisqually Valley News
Thirteen-year-old Bill Murdock’s district sales manager called on a Sunday in early December. The Oregon Journal printed a special …
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By Julie McDonald /For The Nisqually Valley News
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12/5/23
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While the last veterans who survived the “surprise” Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are dwindling rapidly, we cannot let their sacrifices and the memories of that horrific day that …
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By Don Brunell
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11/21/23
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Do you want to be successful in life?
Are you risk averse?
Let me share one of the grea test truths in life: If you are not willing to take risks, you will never grow, change or get out of …
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By Richard Stride/For the Nisqually Valley News
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11/14/23
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I recently learned that the old saying, “it’s too good to be true” doesn’t account for something important: scams don’t go through the intelligent, thinking part of your …
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By Brian Mittge /For The Nisqually Valley News
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11/7/23
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President Biden’s $65 billion infrastructure bill contains $8 billion for regional hubs to develop ways to produce and distribute hydrogen fuel. One is planned for the Pacific Northwest and …
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By Don Brunell
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10/31/23
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The Interstate 405 and state Highway 167 toll lane experiment is losing money.
Now, the state Transportation Commission is considering increasing tolls by up to 80% to $18 each way on I-405. The …
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By Mark Harmsworth/Washington Policy Center
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10/31/23
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After decades of work and millions of dollars of restoration work, one of our region’s threatened salmon runs is showing encouraging signs of recovery — summer chum that return to the …
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By Ed Johnstone
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10/24/23
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On July 26, 1945, after news spread across the island of Tinian in the Marianas, Navy Seabee Clarence Piper joined others to see the USS Indianapolis, a nearly 600-foot-long Portland-class heavy …
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By Julie McDonald/For the Nisqually Valley News
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10/17/23
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When Japanese bombers attacked U.S. Navy ships at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Clarence Piper was a high school sophomore visiting his uncle in the hills of Oregon and read about the attack in the …
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By Julie McDonald/For the Nisqually Valley News
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10/10/23
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While media focus was on Joe Biden’s decree putting a tiny plot of land within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) off limits to oil and gas exploration, reporters ignored the bigger …
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By Don C. Brunell
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10/10/23
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