Letters to the Editor

LETTER: U.S. government wasn’t founded on Christianity

The government of the United States “is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion,” President John Adams declared in the Treaty of Tripoli… Continue reading

LETTER: View the election as a means to come together, not engender division

If we see the election in terms of winners and losers, we miss the point of how a representative democracy is designed to work. Elected… Continue reading

LETTER: Clallam Superior Court hopeful Dave Neupert claims a veterans court is needed. Why?

If you know the facts about veterans therapeutic courts, you wonder why Clallam County District Court Judge Rick Porter is passionately advocating his friend Dave… Continue reading

LETTER: Dave Neupert has greatest skills to be Clallam Superior Court judge

I am proudly putting my support and vote behind Dave Neupert for Superior Court judge, Position 2, in Clallam County. Dave is not your run-of-the-mill… Continue reading

LETTER: Help retain Brian Coughenour as Clallam Superior Court judge

I am an attorney retired from the active practice of law. I am supporting Brian Coughenour’s retention as Superior Court judge. These are my reasons:… Continue reading

LETTER: Mike Chapman’s experience as a Clallam commissioner qualifies him to be state legislator

I have known Mike Chapman for a number of years. He has always impressed me with his ability to shed partisan politics and approach issues… Continue reading

LETTER: Ron Richards has my vote for Clallam County commissioner

Ron Richards lived across the street from my parents decades ago. Six years ago, he visited my mom at least twice in the nursing home… Continue reading

LETTER: Action needed to abate U.S. Highway 101-Happy Valley Road bottleneck

After waiting a considerable length of time for oncoming traffic and backing up a long line of traffic behind me, I made a stupid left… Continue reading

LETTER: As a state representative, Mike Chapman would be bipartisan

I’ll make this short. I urge you to vote for Mike Chapman for 24th District state representative. He has worked in a bipartisan way to… Continue reading

LETTER: Here’s why your vote really does matter

• To stop the people, special interests and corporations who are relentlessly using our political system to take what they want and make everybody else… Continue reading

LETTER: I support Brian Coughenour for Clallam Superior Court despite one-sided endorsements

In response to Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Chairman/CEO Ron Allen’s Nov. 2 letter in Peninsula Voices [“Tribe for Neupert”], may it be known the Jamestown Tribal… Continue reading

LETTER: Jill Stein the only presidential candidate who’d help save our Earth

A letter to the editor published Thursday, “For Jill Stein,” was a clearly written summary of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign. Letter-writer Therese “Tree” Stokan… Continue reading

LETTER: Ron Richards has his own shady ties to interest groups

Further comment on the topic of a letter to Peninsula Voices discussing the Clallam County commissioner campaign (“For Randy Johnson,” Peninsula Voices, Oct. 21) is… Continue reading

LETTER: Ron Richards will work for solutions together as Clallam commissioner

I met Clallam County commissioner candidate Ron Richards more than a year ago at a PA CAN [Port Angeles Citizen Action Network] park cleanup. We… Continue reading

LETTER: Vote for Ron Richards, a man of action and principles

I have known Clallam County commissioner candidate Ron Richards since the ’70s. He volunteered on the NO Oilport! board, a coalition to defeat an oil… Continue reading

LETTER: Vote to break the stranglehold liberals have on the state of Washington

Citizens of Clallam County, arise, get up. Exercise your right to vote, which is just another word for freedom. For too long, the western and… Continue reading

LETTER: We’re lucky to live in a country that supports the right of property owners

The writer of an Oct. 30 letter to Peninsula Voices from a self-described local organic farmer, “Working together,” would ask both Clallam County commissioner candidates,… Continue reading

LETTER: Be aware of carbon tax initiative proponent’s position on I-732

Bruce Lippke, professor emeritus of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences of the University of Washington, presented arguments that the forest product producers should… Continue reading

LETTER: Jamestown S’Klallam tribe supports Dave Neupert for Clallam Superior Court justice

The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Council, the elected body representing the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, has endorsed Dave Neupert in his bid for Clallam County Superior Court… Continue reading

LETTER: Justice Wiggin’s strong moral character merits re-election to state Supreme Court

A political action committee is throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat Justice Charlie Wiggins’ re-election to the state Supreme Court. The PAC claims… Continue reading