Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Supports Clallam County officials’ pandemic response

I’m relieved and supportive of Clallam County officials’ response to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s not always easy for those elected who make major decisions for… Continue reading

  • May 29, 2020

LETTER: Country before self

This is a response to the letter “Sanitized and usurped” on COVID. Yeah there are a lot of deaths from heart disease, cancer etc. But… Continue reading

  • May 28, 2020

LETTER: Don’t trivialize the virus

This is in regards to the sanitized and usurped letter writer who apparently believes the liberal media has been blowing the pandemic out of proportion.… Continue reading

  • May 28, 2020

LETTER: Sex education

The Washington Legislature passed an important bill this past session that will require each public school in our state to teach comprehensive, science-based physical and… Continue reading

  • May 27, 2020

LETTER: Thanks NOLS

While many of us are at home and various services and resources are harder to access, I’ve been so glad to have the North Olympic… Continue reading

  • May 27, 2020

LETTER: Non-political?

As co-chair of the Jefferson County Republicans, you’d think SOS head and Port Hadlock resident Jodi Wilke and her colleagues might have made plans for… Continue reading

  • May 24, 2020

LETTER: Improvements not better

Recently the Port Angeles City Council approved work on Lincoln Street to improve safety. Will the same traffic engineers that provided the safety improvements for… Continue reading

  • May 23, 2020

LETTER: Our freedoms have been usurped

Our lives have become sanitized. We’ve been anesthetized of reality. Our freedoms have been usurped by our unwillingness to face one inherent displeasure of life,… Continue reading

  • May 22, 2020

LETTER: Doesn’t like how state government is handling lockdown

Within our Declaration of Independence it says “All men are created equal… endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights… (including) Life, Liberty and the… Continue reading

  • May 20, 2020

LETTER: Jefferson County officials dithering over Phase 2 variance

Jefferson County’s health official said an early entry into Phase 2 may be sent as soon as Friday after a series of meetings planned this… Continue reading

  • May 20, 2020

LETTER: Stuck at home a second time in 2020

So far for me in 2020, I’ve been snowed in 11 days, will be quarantined for who knows how long, had four job opportunities that… Continue reading

  • May 20, 2020

LETTER: A message to those not wearing a mask

To all those not wanting to wear a mask to help control the spreading of the unique coronavirus, this message is for you. My grandparents’… Continue reading

  • May 19, 2020

LETTER: Supports Eisenhour for Jefferson County district 2 commissioner

As a former colleague of Heidi Eisenhour, I am writing in support of Heidi for Jefferson County district 2 commissioner. Heidi is an action-oriented problem… Continue reading

  • May 19, 2020

LETTER: Open businesses now

We should open all businesses today. We can put in place precautions at the vulnerable locations and quarantine or isolate any hot spots. The president… Continue reading

  • May 17, 2020

LETTER: Phase 2

I’m very disappointed by the decision not to allow Clallam County early Phase 2 because of the infection of two people. This virus is very… Continue reading

  • May 17, 2020

LETTER: Supports post office

I am writing this letter because of the most recent activity from the White House to do away with the United States Postal Service. When… Continue reading

  • May 17, 2020

LETTER: Dislikes columnist Charles Blow

Past experience reminds me to never read anything written by alleged journalist Charles Blow, although he is published on a regular basis in our foreign… Continue reading

  • May 15, 2020

LETTER: Supports 2nd Amendment

I’m saddened by the deaths and hardships resulting from the coronavirus that is affecting us all in these trying times. Not ignoring that, I also… Continue reading

  • May 14, 2020

LETTER: Supports Sequim MAT clinic

While out riding my bicycle (solo) and riding past all of the S.O.S. signs in yards and fences in March, I wondered if these same… Continue reading

  • May 14, 2020

LETTER: Cut out the middlemen in Payroll Protection Plan

The recurring federal disbursing disaster of the Payroll Protection Plan loan/grant program is clearly not working. Perhaps some of our more enlightened citizens from Scandinavia… Continue reading

  • May 13, 2020