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It’s easy to think it won’t happen to us — until it does.
For me, it was when my mother had an unexpected massive stroke. We were both caught totally unprepared.
I was …
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By Christina Keys
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10/1/24
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This year, Washington state voters will have the historic opportunity to vote on four initiatives at the top of their ballot. One of those initiatives, Initiative 2124, would give workers the ability …
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By state Rep. Peter Abbarno, R-Centralia
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10/1/24
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The current election cycle made a headline out of price gouging in grocery stores and setting caps on certain staple foods. Contrary to insinuation that farmers and others in agriculture are …
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By Pam Lewison / Washington Policy Center
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9/24/24
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Eighty years ago, a lawyer who had fled to the United States from Poland a few years earlier combined an ancient Greek word and a Latin word to make a new term: genocide.
The word was coined …
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Commentary by Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
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9/24/24
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This year, Washington state voters will have the historic opportunity to vote on four initiatives at the top of their ballot. One of those initiatives, Initiative 2124, would give workers the ability …
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By state Rep. Peter Abbarno, R-Centralia
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9/19/24
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September 13, 2024
The Biden-Harris Administration has awarded an unprecedented $240 million to support the hatcheries that preserve salmon and steelhead runs in the Pacific Northwest and …
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By Ed Johnstone / NWIFC Chairman
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9/17/24
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Well, there they go again.
Opponents of Initiative 2117, which would repeal Washington's costly cap-and-tax law, are repeating the lie that passing the initiative would put our state's roads and …
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Commentary by Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
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9/13/24
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We often hear that an upcoming election is the most important one in years, maybe even decades — possibly ever. It’s easy to dismiss this as election hype, but there are good reasons why …
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By Kris Johnson
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9/10/24
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The United States recently competed in the Summer Olympic Games in Paris.
Team U.S., for the eighth consecutive Olympic Games, won more medals than any other country.
In Paris, the overall …
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By Richard Stride
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9/3/24
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Our national debt is spreading out of control like a raging wildfire. Among other things, that added liability impacts our ability to fight those fires and reforest those scorched woods and range …
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By Don C. Brunell
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9/3/24
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Loneliness and isolation are silent epidemics in our society, exacerbated by modern lifestyles and the pervasive influence of technology. This growing crisis calls for immediate action to foster …
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By Kyle Cronk, Cheryl Heywood, Brian Windrope and Chris Wells
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8/27/24
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A new set of rankings from WalletHub, a personal-finance website, recently prompted a report on a prominent regional news outlet, with this headline: “Why didn’t Washington make the top …
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By state Sen. John Braun
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8/27/24
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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
We have all heard this.
But the truth we all know is that this is just plain false.
The fact is words …
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By Richard Stride
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8/20/24
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International Overdose Awareness Day, Aug. 31, is the most extensive annual campaign to end overdoses.
The campaign raises awareness of overdoses, which have impacted every community. Too many …
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By Michael Leach
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8/20/24
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One of the most vexing problems with our nation’s health care system is getting a timely doctor’s appointment. Our primary care network is overwhelmed.
More than 100 million …
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By Don Brunell
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8/13/24
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The U.S. and Canada reached a preliminary deal last month to modernize the Columbia River Treaty, a 60-year-old agreement that guides how the two countries manage one of North America’s largest …
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By Kris Johnson
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8/13/24
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Misguided attempts to “conserve wild salmon” are an attack on tribal sovereignty and come at a huge cost to Indigenous culture and livelihoods.
The Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC) has …
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By Ed Johnstone / Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission Chairman
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8/6/24
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Every five years, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) does a “Census of Agriculture” to look at agriculture in the United States.
They gather a lot of statistics from …
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By Maureen Harkcom / For The Nisqually Valley News
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7/30/24
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Have you ever heard of Malcolm Muggeridge?
Neither had I until a book I just finished mentioned his name.
Malcolm was born in Sanderstead, Surrey, England, in March 1903. …
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By Richard Stride
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7/23/24
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Washington faces significant social and economic risks if anti-forestry groups succeed in persuading the Board of Natural Resources and candidates for commissioner of public lands to close an …
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By Nick Smith
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7/23/24
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