The four person majority of the Sequim City Council has passed a resolution that implies government mandates are unconstitutional. Elected public officials bear a responsibility… Continue reading
Fractured and divided as a country. This was America in 1941. Despite what was being reported about Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan, there was opposition… Continue reading
By voting to oppose public health mandates, Sequim Mayor William Armacost and council members Keith Larkin, Sarah Kincaid and Mike Pence have abdicated their civic… Continue reading
Heather Jeffers, candidate for District 2 hospital commissioner, is an experienced health care provider. At a recent candidate meeting, her opponent, Karen Rogers, accused her… Continue reading
I am deeply disturbed about the Sequim City Council’s recent resolution. It is not the job of the council to take sides in this medical… Continue reading
I would ask the crowd of anti-vax/anti-mask advocates who threatened Dr. Allison Berry because of mandates to protect our community from COVID-19 to go back… Continue reading
The Sequim Good Governance League (SGGL) is very grateful that Dr. Allison Berry, Clallam and Jefferson County public health officer, is working on our behalf,… Continue reading
My son is a United States Marine and I had two brothers who fought and died in the Vietnam war. So whenever I saw an… Continue reading
The woefully misguided majority of Sequim city council members are adrift in mind-numbing confusion. Rather than spending time on actual city matters of relevance, Council… Continue reading
I just finished reading the Sunday, Sept. 12 PDN and was again disappointed in the articles that described the continued spread of the virus and… Continue reading
This is my public comment to the resolution proposed by Sequim City Council member Keith Larkin and passed by the council 4-3 regarding supporting local… Continue reading
Several excellent columns and letters in this paper have tried to explain to angry demonstrators how we’re all in this COVID-19 fight together, and how… Continue reading
Mandate overdue A mandate requiring vaccines and masks is long overdue. Finally there is no reasonable excuse for spreading the virus, clogging the hospitals and… Continue reading
COVID-19 is not a joke or something the government is doing to you; it’s a virus that moves through the air, is breathed in and… Continue reading
I want to inform the owners and staff of our local restaurants and bars that I and my husband are so happy to know that… Continue reading
For any other disaster, I would like to think our community would work feverishly, arm in arm, for a successful outcome. But apparently not this… Continue reading
What has this community come to? This is the first letter I have ever written to a newspaper after many years of reading the daily… Continue reading
The bubonic plague, which destroyed half the population in some towns, started in somebody’s body. Some person was hosting a microorganism that ended up being… Continue reading
Self-righteousness without serious soul-searching to discover our own culpability allows us to react to every perceived threat spontaneously, but unless we constantly remind ourselves that… Continue reading
Kudos to Dr. Allison Berry for the fine work she has done under the terrifying burden of this virus. We particularly admire her courage with… Continue reading