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PAT NEAL: The coming crisis
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news.
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PAT NEAL: The Thunderbird and the railroad
MAYBE THERE’S NO such thing as the good old days, but then again, disturbing days of the present…
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PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: Boomer remover review
Imagine a view from a ridge top high in the mountains. It looks like someplace up the Dungeness,…
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PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: A new reason to stay home
JUST WHEN YOU thought things couldn’t get any worse, we got another good reason to stay home, locked…
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PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: A crop of hope
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The governor extended the stay-at-home order for another month. It…
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PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: The Boomer Remover
IT WAS A day I’ll never forget. I remember it like it was yesterday. Maybe it was yesterday.
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PAT NEAL: Herd mentality when there’s more than enough hay
IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the swamp. I was already late for a very important date. Breakfast with the…
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PAT NEAL: Skunk Cabbage Festival canceled
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. It was revealed that the Oil City Skunk Cabbage Festival…
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PAT NEAL: A historic canoe journey
LISTENING TO PEOPLE complain about the weather on the Olympic Peninsula is evidence we’ve evolved into a nation…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Co-managed to extinction
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The WDFW, aka the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife,…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A decade of disaster
BY NOW WE are all fed up with know-it-all newspaper columnists telling us what the most important events…
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PAT NEAL: The royal visit
IT’S BEEN ANOTHER tough week in the news with the recurring snowmaggedon, the heartbreaking Seahawks playoff loss to…
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PAT NEAL: Rainforest expedition
IT WAS A dark and stormy night. Inside the cabin, the wood stove glowed red with venison stew…
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PAT NEAL: Happy New Year
THANK YOU FOR reading this. Sometimes I think if you didn’t read this, no one would.