Opinion
PAT NEAL: Going down the sucker hole
IT WAS GOING to be one of those days.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Steelhead season’s sinking feeling
EVEN WITH GLOBAL warming, January is the coldest month. When all the rabid
chickens come home to roost.…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: New Year’s resolutions
OFTEN, NEW YEAR’S resolutions that seem like a good idea on New Year’s Eve can seem like a…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Christmas of yesteryear
IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the swamp on the shortest day of the year. Christmas was coming and I…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: The fish and game commission is irrelevant
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news as the Washington Fish and Game Commission passed more laws…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Waiting for steelhead season
IT’S BEEN ANOTHER tough week in the news, as we wait for the state to decide if they’ll…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A COVID Christmas letter
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU SURVIVED the latest COVID-holiday, Thanksgiving. Where we gathered together to celebrate the fact that we didn’t…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A ‘Dirty Thirties’ Thanksgiving
THIS IS A story of an Olympic Peninsula family celebrating Thanksgiving in the olden days.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: It’s spawning season again
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river on a dark and dismal day. It’s a favorite time of year.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Opening day of elk season
IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the swamp on the opening day of elk season.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: The day after the election
“THE WHOLE COUNTRY is going to hell in a bucket now that we’ve elected those idiots,” my fancy…