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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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Editor,
One of the skills we’ve lost as a nation is the ability to have an evidence-based discussion. Why? It involves math, and by current estimates, only about 9% of the U.S. …
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9/17/24
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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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Editor,
It's done. The 30th Rainier Pickin' Party is over. Who would have thought that such a hot and sunny festival season would have produced an honest-to-goodness, stereotypical Pacific …
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9/10/24
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Editor,
We’re not in Boston, and this is not a tea party!
Over the years, we have seen a greater revolt in our community over passing dollars needed to keep our Yelm Community Schools …
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9/10/24
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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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Editor,
John Sununu, Republican governor of New Hampshire, is a guy I could vote for.
In interviews he is likable, energetic and gives straight knowledgeable answers to questions — …
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9/3/24
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Editor,
We all got our tax assessment from the Thurston County Assessor Office this month. We paid 36.54% for local school taxes and another 23.32% for state school taxes. That is a total of …
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9/3/24
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Editor,
Yelm schools and teachers:
Both sides waited for the week before school started to begin negotiations on what would be acceptable to both parties to resume work.
This is a …
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9/3/24
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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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Editor,
We are beyond the questions of whether public K-12 education has failed or whether we wish to fix it. We are at the point where the question is “Can we save it?” Some …
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8/20/24
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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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