Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Port Angeles needs to review priorities about performing arts center

Priorities? Port Angeles has a high school which needs replacing and a middle school which needs either replacing or an incredible amount of money to… Continue reading

  • Oct 28, 2019

LETTER: Supports Miano for experience, education, background

I read with astonishment in the recent PDN Voter Guide that Clallam Fire District 3 Commissioner Jim Barnfather had this to say about his opponent… Continue reading

  • Oct 28, 2019

LETTER: Benedict endorses Barnfather in District 3

Jim Barnfather has my vote to continue to serve as Fire District 3 commissioner. A 40-year veteran firefighter, he has done an outstanding job over… Continue reading

  • Oct 27, 2019

LETTER: Board decries I-976 while general manager gets a raise

In the Oct. 18 issue, the PDN reports the Clallam Transit Board crying over lack of adequate funding if I-976 passes and also reports about… Continue reading

  • Oct 27, 2019

LETTER: Candidate Carr has done her homework in Port Angeles

We all want representatives who are able to develop productive solutions to community challenges rather than rely on fear, negativity and stigmatization as the answer.… Continue reading

  • Oct 27, 2019

LETTER: Henninger best candidate for Clallam hospital commission

I will vote for Ann Henninger for hospital commissioner as she is the most qualified for this position. I know her to be an amazing… Continue reading

  • Oct 27, 2019

LETTER: Port of Port Townsend should approve new improvement plan before spending money

The Port of Port Townsend’s Strategic Plan says infrastructure maintenance shall come first. Good idea, never done. Now they want us to approve a new… Continue reading

  • Oct 27, 2019

LETTER: Positions on climate change a test for candidates

Several vectors in today’s world threaten human civilization, e.g., nuclear war and runaway artificial intelligence, but the one that’s bearing down on us like a… Continue reading

  • Oct 27, 2019

LETTER: Smithson would bring new perspective to Sequim board

This is a letter of recommendation for Beth Smithson who is running for the District 3 position on the Sequim Board of Education. Smithson is… Continue reading

  • Oct 27, 2019

LETTER: Stoffer’s experience needed on Sequim School Board

Sequim schools are in transition with our superintendent position and elections that will bring in two new board members, with the remaining two members having… Continue reading

  • Oct 27, 2019

LETTER: Support Napiontek in Port Angeles

I want to express my support for Nina Napiontek, who is running for Port Angeles city council, position 6. As a native of Port Angeles,… Continue reading

  • Oct 27, 2019

LETTER: Utmost confidence in candidate Henninger

The so-called “rhythm” or “calendar” method involved a woman guesstimating, on a monthly basis, when she might ovulate based on the dates of her prior… Continue reading

  • Oct 27, 2019

Support for Miano

I have been around Clallam County Fire District 3 my whole life. First as a volunteer, then as career staff, retiring as captain in 2011.… Continue reading

  • Oct 27, 2019

LETTER: Letter was compilation of half truths

The Oct. 10-11 letter “Desperate Dems” was a compilation of half-truths. The writer said efforts to impeach Trump are crazy for several reasons. He credits… Continue reading

  • Oct 25, 2019

LETTER: Change needed in Clallam Fire District 3

In September 2017, Fire District 3 commissioners Barnfather and Gawley voted not to accept $1 million in a federal grant called SAFER to hire additional… Continue reading

  • Oct 24, 2019

LETTER: Need tougher sentences to deter drug violations

Our drug problem is huge and growing. An official told me once that “you can’t stop it.” He did not say you can’t slow it… Continue reading

  • Oct 24, 2019

LETTER: Many lies published about climate change

Climate activists and far-left politicians routinely claim that global warming is the biggest, most urgent problem facing the world. Not so fast. In Chicago alone… Continue reading

  • Oct 23, 2019

LETTER: Public getting waste coverup, not cleanup at Rayonier

a coverup of Rayonier’s hazardous waste rather than a cleanup? When EPA was set to start… Continue reading

  • Oct 23, 2019

LETTER: Association seeks stranglehold on Port of Port Townsend

It appears to me that the Marine Trades Association in Port Townsend is trying to secure a stranglehold on the Port of Port Townsend. The… Continue reading

  • Oct 21, 2019

LETTER: Healing is a shared goal

This is a response to an Oct. 3 letter, “City code not worth the ink if clinic is built in Sequim,” nay-saying the medication-assisted treatment… Continue reading

  • Oct 21, 2019