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Make a difference for our schools

Oct. 22, 2009 - “Make a Difference Day” coming up this weekend is a great opportunity to make a positive impact in our community. Another great way to make a difference in the success of our community and its members is to join your local school board.

Innovation is key to American success

Oct. 15, 2009 - Some prominent economists tell us we are starting to come out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, but many worry the uptick won’t last.

What happens without space shuttle?

Oct. 08, 2009 - If all goes as planned, Vancouver teacher-astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger will be on board Space Shuttle Discovery when it lifts off next March 10. It may be the last time she flies in space because the current shuttle flights end in 2010. The replacement orbiter, the Constellation, may not fly until 2014 at the earliest.

Get injured workers back to work fairly

Oct. 01, 2009 - Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has proposed an average 7.6 percent increase in workers’ compensation premiums for 2010. The insurance, funded mostly by employers, pays for medical care, pensions and lost wages for injured workers.

Approve plan in wake of record salmon

Sept. 24, 2009 - Even though the plan to manage the Columbia and Snake rivers continues in flux, things are improving for the fish and people who depend on the two waterways.

A personal view on healthcare problems

Sept. 17, 2009 - Mr. Don Brunell, President Association of Washington Business, recently expressed the view in the “Your Turn” column, titled, “We Should Replicate Success, Not Failure” that any national healthcare alternative to private medical insurance was doomed to failure. His reasoning was, it had been tried by several other states, Maine, Massachusetts, Hawaii and Tennessee and it failed. He doesn’t state why these healthcare systems failed, other than high cost. Apparently the dispensing of good health care wasn’t one of them.

Let's re-forest forests, not farmland

Sept. 03, 2009 - When Congress reconvenes next month, lawmakers will consider costly climate change legislation that includes a massive tree- planting program. The plan, developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), calls for reforesting 18 million acres of farmland, an area about the size of West Virginia.

Breaching the Snake dams is wrong

Aug. 20, 2009 - California’s lush Napa Valley is packed with thriving vineyards and wineries. In contrast, the surrounding hills are parched and dry — a reminder of what the valley was like before irrigation.

Cemetery commissioners tell plans

Aug. 13, 2009 - Let’s talk about the cemetery for a few minutes. It is agreed the lawn for Memorial Day was terrible, the availability of water was lacking, so what’s the problem?

Ego over race in Crowley-Gates issue

Aug. 06, 2009 - Well, the news media is at it again. There are so many news programs and news channels the media is faced daily with the need to ‘create’ news rather than just report it. Their latest frenzy is the Professor Gates/Officer Crowley/President Obama first-arrest-then-release fiasco. The news media, in its need to create news, has tried to turn this into a big, racial story with continuous daily reporting and interviews with every black personality they can corner. But we all know that if there was a terrorist attack or a big storm or a meltdown on the stock market, this story would not even make the back pages of a newspaper. While the news media would like to make this into a racial story, it is really only a story of egos gone astray.

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