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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: At home on a two-way street
THESE “LESSONS” WON’T apply to me, I thought. “House Lessons,” the new memoir from bestselling local author Erica…
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POINT OF VIEW: Jefferson Healthcare responds to COVID-19
JEFFERSON HEALTHCARE PLANNED to deal with several challenging issues in 2020.
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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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CORNFIELD: Legislative session ends with plenty of hits and misses
THE 2020 REGULAR legislative session has come to a close.
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POINT OF VIEW: Legislature should help state conserve fish, wildlife
Nature is both more loved and more ignored than ever before.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Women, whiskey, words
I HELD MY breath. It was almost midnight. My compañera, Jess, had ridden her horse into a situation…
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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…
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POINT OF VIEW: Economy, taxing districts lose after timber harvest decision
DUE TO THE state Department of Natural Resources increasing marbled murrelet habitat conservation, Clallam County will see significantly…
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The state has too much money and it’s a problem
With revenues rising, budget writers are going to get lots of requests on how to spend it
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Words of wisdom from a dance teacher
AT ESALEN, ONE of Earth’s most glorious spots perched on California’s Big Sur Coast, we sat wearing long…
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PAT NEAL: Co-managed to extinction
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The WDFW, aka the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife,…
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JERRY CORNFIELD: On car taxes, Sound Transit says it gets it, but does it?
Lawmakers and transit agency leaders are still far apart on how to reduce the cost of those tabs.
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POINT OF VIEW: Vote YES on levy for the love of Port Angeles
SITTING ON THE table is $18.4 million in already collected state taxpayer funds available to be spent on…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Forging ahead with beans and bars
I SLIDE OPEN the door and enter the sanctuary. A fragrance says buenos dias: a scent from Ecuador.…
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POINT OF VIEW: Vote ‘no’ on PASD levy
COMMON SENSE, CONCERN for our entire community’s welfare and frugality guide our opposition to Port Angeles School District’s…