Opinion
PAT NEAL: A short history of fraud
WHEN VIEWED THROUGH the lens of history, today’s current events are no mystery. In last week’s column, we…
News
PAT NEAL: The New Carpetbaggers
THANK YOU FOR reading this. Sometimes I think if you didn’t read this ,no one would, but you…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Telling the truth to tourists
NOW THAT THE tourists are here, it’s easy to remember why there’s a season on them.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Summertime search and rescue
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news, but what do you expect?
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A major miracle happening now
THERE’S A MAJOR miracle happening now, and you won’t read about it anywhere but here.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Bale bucking blues
DRIVING AROUND THE old hometown can make you feel old. Gone are the days when the food in…
News
PAT NEAL: Survival of the wilderness pests
THIS IS A story about wilderness pests. It is told as a warning to others. I remember this…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: The camas are blooming
THERE’S A LITTLE piece of history blooming now right along U.S. Highway 101, a few miles south of…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: The call of the Swainson’s thrush
THIS MUST BE my favorite time of year. We’ve emerged from hibernation and all danger of frost has…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: The Olympic Peninsula driving guide
THE SIGNS OF the season are everywhere. The roar of the lawn mower, the stench of burning charcoal…
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…