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JERRY CORNFIELD: What lawmakers want to do isn’t always what needs to be done
They’ve introduced 1,341 bills. It’s time they started focusing on the ones that matter most.
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POINT OF VIEW: Vote YES on PASD levy
Our Port Angeles community is generous and spirited. I’ve asked myself again, why we are not investing in…
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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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Jefferson County a ‘daycare desert’
THREE BABIES ATTENDED the first meeting of Jefferson Healthcare’s task force on child care.
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EDC resolutions for 2020
IT’S JANUARY, THE time of reflections on the past and promises for the future.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Revisiting ‘The Last Wilderness’
“IT WAS RAINING, of course … Wind from the south, strong and steady and cold, fanned across the…
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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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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Looking forward, with women ‘Little’ and powerful
WE’RE DUE FOR stories of triumph as we start this new year, don’t you think?
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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.
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PAT NEAL: Merry Christmas anyway
THIS HAS BEEN a controversial Christmas season in the controversial year where everything is offensive if you think…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: His mother’s son
EMPATHY AND FACEBOOK combine in a kind of cowboy winter-gear drive out here in the badlands of Port…
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PAT NEAL: Yes, Virginia, there is a steelhead
(WITH APOLOGIES TO Francis Pharcellus Church, editor of the New York Sun, Dec. 21, 1897.)
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PAT NEAL: Flu season shots help
THIS IS A morning that can make you feel like a spawned-out salmon headed downstream tail first.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Six words say it well
I’D GIVEN UP on finding the Sacred Heart. Husband Phil and I drove into and all around the…
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PAT NEAL: The holiday marathon
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news made even tougher by the long Thanksgiving weekend.
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PAT NEAL: A Dirty Thirties Thanksgiving
THIS IS A story of an Olympic Peninsula family celebrating Thanksgiving in the olden days.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: ‘Breath and resonance in real space’
DON’T DREAD THE winter, I tell myself. Dread doesn’t help anything. Going outside does.