Opinion
PAT NEAL: We’re opening the Upper Hoh Road
OFTEN WHILE GLIDING along the paved roads of the Olympic Peninsula, you wonder at the difficulty of travel…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A family favorite skunk cabbage recipe
THE SKUNK CABBAGE is a swamp-dwelling harbinger of spring.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Fond memories of opening day
ONE OF MY many guilty pleasures is to look through copies of old newspapers as a way of…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: De-extincting our salmon
WHO SAYS THERE’S no good news? Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based company, announced the birth of three dire wolf…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A homesteader’s journal
SPRINGTIME MUST BE my favorite time of year. When even though the days are getting longer, there aren’t…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: The April Fools’ fallout
HOW WAS YOUR April Fools’ Day? Mine was the best ever. Like other holidays, April Fools’ Day requires…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Highway history on the Peninsula
BUILDING ROADS ON the Olympic Peninsula has always been a challenge. In the days before roads, people traveled…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: The road report
IT TAKES A big man to admit you’re wrong. Unfortunately, I am not that man. While I’d never…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: No answer is an answer
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. Demonstrators flooded the streets of Port Angeles, making their voices…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Fix the road
IT’S ONLY FEBRUARY, but our Olympic Peninsula tourist season has already started.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: The day after Valentine’s
“IT MUST BE nice to be a fishing guide.” If I had a dollar for every time I…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Digging potatoes in the snow
THERE ARE FEW things I enjoy more than digging potatoes in the snow. I know, I should have…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A hard winter
IF I HEARD this once I’ve heard it a million times from the old-timers who claimed that winters…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: How’s the fishing?
HOW’S THE FISHING? If I had a buck for every time somebody asked that question, I wouldn’t waste…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: The cow whisperer
AS A CHILD, I wanted to be a cowboy. To wake up under a starlit western sky to…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A cabin fever cure
YOU DON’T HAVE to be crazy to dig razor clams in the night tides of January — but…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A short history of geology
THE GEOLOGY OF the Olympic Peninsula offers a fascinating glimpse into the massive forces of nature that shaped…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Keeping New Year’s resolutions
THE SECRET OF making and keeping New Year’s resolutions is to focus on the little things that can…