Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Laurel Grove Cemetery going to the dogs in Port Townsend

I spend several hours each day volunteering with others from Port Townsend to help restore one of the most historic and special places on our… Continue reading

LETTER: Opioid problem is users, not manufacturers

The Clallam County Health Board exhibits the same mentality as the proponents of gun control. It is not the manufacturers who are causing the crisis,… Continue reading

LETTER: Consider carefully

Please consider carefully when voting on the proposed Port Angeles School District capital levy. By renovating Stevens Middle School to allow sixth graders to attend… Continue reading

LETTER: Do the right thing

The sure thing in our world is death and taxes. We have some say over the former and more over the latter. The American government… Continue reading

LETTER: Faith in our future

Please vote “yes” on the upcoming school levy. Our schools are one of the prime indicators of the faith the community has in its future,… Continue reading

LETTER: Pay fair share

Our community’s civic duty is to bear the financial costs of school construction. I refuse to continue deferring these costs to the future and will… Continue reading

LETTER: Pay it forward

We have just received our ballots to vote on the capital levy for the Port Angeles School District. Please vote. Every vote counts. I know… Continue reading

LETTER: Reject ‘blistering’ school district capital levy

Weirdly, our county, city, and port elected representatives imagine we need their guidance to vote. More weirdly, they pretend they should use their official position… Continue reading

LETTER: Vote for levy

Port Angeles voters should vote “yes” for our schools. There used to be five elementary schools. We cut that down to four. There used to… Continue reading

LETTER: Vote yes on levy

Last night, we ordered pizzas, and I realized that, once a month, those pies cost me about what the school levy will. I did tip… Continue reading

LETTER: Collins picks and chooses her numbers, causes

I have to comment on Gail Collins’ commentary published in the Peninsula Daily News on Jan. 26. Throughout the article she cites all these numbers… Continue reading

  • Feb 10, 2018

LETTER: Democrats and socialism bigger danger than Republicans

A writer to Peninsula Voices “Under attack” (PDN, Jan. 26) errantly claims the Trump-GOP government is a danger to our democracy, Constitution and innumerable other… Continue reading

  • Feb 10, 2018

LETTER: New PUD metering unfair to solar community, bad for climate

The bad news is that our Clallam County PUD Board of Commissioners has implemented a change in their definition of net metering. If you submitted… Continue reading

LETTER: Loves salmon but not net pens

First, I’d like to say that I love salmon. I only eat fresh-caught salmon obtained from local sources. With that in mind, if you consume… Continue reading

LETTER: Unity, not tribalism, will make America strong

Patrick Buchanan deplores the left’s idea that a moral society is one of maximum ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. He believes that tribalism (his dog-whistle… Continue reading

  • Feb 8, 2018

LETTER: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ideal for gas, oil development

The Jan. 10 Peninsula Daily News “Protect Refuge” letter claims that the Gwich’in people’s way of life will be ruined if oil and gas development… Continue reading

  • Feb 7, 2018

LETTER: Most American ancestors were immigrants

7 miles from Port Townsend and I did see the eclipse on Jan. 31. And in answer to the letter… Continue reading

  • Feb 7, 2018

LETTER: Schools evaluation points to upgrades, levy

The Port Angeles School District capital projects levy facing voters addresses the integrity of our aging schools. Data cited on the physical evaluation of each… Continue reading

LETTER: Port Angeles needs less expensive school options

This is an assessment of Port Angeles schools as a whole from the perspective of a lifelong member of this community (more than 70 years).… Continue reading

  • Feb 5, 2018

LETTER: Writer finds humor in PDN weather ‘poems’

I get such a kick out of the poetry that’s tucked under each day’s square on the weather page. I had read the Peninsula Daily… Continue reading

  • Feb 5, 2018