Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Safety over glamping

The glamping company Under Canvas has proposed a project out on the West End in the upper Sol Duc Valley. Clallam County’s Department of Community… Continue reading

  • Aug 16, 2025

LETTER: Tribal gratitude

I am writing to express my immense gratitude, and awe, for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. They graciously welcomed thousands of tribal and First Nations… Continue reading

  • Aug 16, 2025

LETTER: Corn roast props

I was fortunate, mostly through notification through the Marchant family and a haphazard, if not lazy attitude approach on my part, to attend the 28th… Continue reading

  • Aug 9, 2025

LETTER: Economic treason

The Trump political cult intends to destroy Social Security and Medicare by using their benefit funds to repay the national debt and cut taxes for… Continue reading

  • Aug 9, 2025

LETTER: Following wrong leader

Do you remember how every time tragedy struck a blue state, a liberal city, or the LGBTQ+ community, the so-called Christian Republicans, especially the MAGA… Continue reading

  • Aug 9, 2025

LETTER: Doe shot

An open letter to the person who shot a doe on lower Dan Kelly Road on July 21. The doe that you shot with a… Continue reading

  • Aug 2, 2025

LETTER: Done with meat

I was a regular meat eater up until I listened to the Coast to Coast AM radio show, “Meat Industry Expose with Gail Eisnitz’” She… Continue reading

LETTER: More transparency

At the July 15 Port Angeles City Council meeting, the purchase of a new Kubota tractor was approved following public concern. As a resident, teacher… Continue reading

  • Aug 2, 2025

LETTER: Red light, green light

How many of you remember the schoolyard game of red light, green light? There was a leader and players behind the leader. The leader would… Continue reading

  • Aug 2, 2025

LETTER: Don’t feed wildlife

Stop feeding wildlife. Seriously, just stop. It might feel cute or kind, but you’re doing far more harm than good. Wild animals aren’t your pets.… Continue reading

  • Jul 26, 2025

LETTER: Ennis legacy

Few local issues have attracted my ire as Rayonier’s disregard for environmental destruction on their former mill site. Rayonier trashed its approximately 80-acre property before… Continue reading

  • Jul 26, 2025

LETTER: Full cleanup

This week’s special Port Angeles City Council meeting offered a rare moment of clarity and consensus, and I urge all Port Angeles residents to take… Continue reading

  • Jul 26, 2025

LETTER: Two types of war

There are two types of war: geopolitical and religious. In most cases, they are interchangeable, both striving for total servitude of the masses by force… Continue reading

  • Jul 26, 2025

LETTER: Vote out Republicans

The new Republican bill cut Medicaid, called Apple Health in Washington state, by $1 trillion. More than one-third of citizens in Clalllam County will lose… Continue reading

  • Jul 26, 2025

LETTER: Celebrating Trump’s success

With the streets of Sequim strangely quiet this past weekend, I panicked. Did I miss the latest “No Kings” rally? Then I realized everyone must… Continue reading

  • Jul 19, 2025

LETTER: Children are starving

My outrage is way too much to fit here. Let me give you one example and then just one more. The president and his administration… Continue reading

  • Jul 19, 2025

LETTER: Ferries too expensive

The July 5 article about the new hybrid ferries was a real eye-opener. The cost to the Washington state taxpayers of these three ferries is… Continue reading

  • Jul 19, 2025

LETTER: Partner with UW

The Olympic Medical Center leadership should consider an affiliation with, not ownership by, the University of Washington hospitals. This non-profit research and teaching institution has… Continue reading

  • Jul 19, 2025

LETTER: Carbon dioxide

In a recent Rants and Raves feature, one person wanted to know why storing poisonous carbon dioxide in the ocean is a good thing. Carbon… Continue reading

  • Jul 12, 2025

LETTER: Fields of debt

I read about how federal cuts are impacting lives. From cutting ineligible people from Medicaid, to cuts to USAID, people’s lives will never be the… Continue reading

  • Jul 12, 2025