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Chance encounters with people who are soul-stirring happen all the time.
I walked into Safeway one morning and headed straight for the bakery to the bagel section. I put my favorite bagel, …
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Richard Stride / For The Reflector
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10/7/24
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Whether you call it a ban or a significant deterrent to future natural gas consumption, voter approval of Initiative 2066 (I-2066) in Washington may be only the first giant pothole to fill. The next …
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Don Brunell
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10/7/24
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It’s easy to think it won’t happen to us — until it does.
For me, it was when my mother had an unexpected massive stroke. We were both caught totally unprepared.
I was …
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By Christina Keys
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10/2/24
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Eighty years ago, a lawyer who had fled to the United States from Poland a few years earlier combined an ancient Greek word and a Latin word to make a new term: genocide.
The word was coined …
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John Braun, R-Centralia
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9/30/24
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The Biden-Harris Administration has awarded an unprecedented $240 million to support the hatcheries that preserve salmon and steelhead runs in the Pacific Northwest and provide fishing opportunities …
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Ed Johnstone / NWIFC Chairman
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9/23/24
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This year, Washington state voters will have the historic opportunity to vote on four initiatives at the top of their ballot. One of those initiatives, Initiative 2124, would give workers the ability …
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By state Rep. Peter Abbarno, R-Centralia
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9/19/24
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The current election cycle made a headline out of price gouging in grocery stores and setting caps on certain staple foods. Contrary to insinuation that farmers and others in agriculture are …
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Pam Lewison / Washington Policy Center
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9/16/24
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We often hear that an upcoming election is the most important one in years, maybe even decades — possibly ever. It’s easy to dismiss this as election hype, but there are good reasons why …
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Kris Johnson
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9/16/24
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Well, there they go again.
Opponents of Initiative 2117, which would repeal Washington's costly cap-and-tax law, are repeating the lie that passing the initiative would put our state's roads and …
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Commentary by Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
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9/13/24
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Our national debt is spreading out of control like a raging wildfire. Among other things, that added liability impacts our ability to fight those fires and reforest those scorched woods and range …
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Don C. Brunell
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9/10/24
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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
We have all heard this.
But the truth we all know is that this is just plain false. The fact is words hurt. …
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Richard Stride
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9/3/24
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The annual Clark County Fair has ended and livestock raised by their keepers was auctioned off. Clark County Citizens United, Inc. wonders just how many more years this can occur? 4-H and Future …
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Carol Levanen / Clark County Citizens United, Inc.
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8/26/24
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The U.S. and Canada reached a preliminary deal last month to modernize the Columbia River Treaty, a 60-year-old agreement that guides how the two countries manage one of North America’s largest …
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Kris Johnson
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8/19/24
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Misguided attempts to “conserve wild salmon” are an attack on tribal sovereignty and come at a huge cost to Indigenous culture and livelihoods.
The Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC) has …
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Ed Johnstone / Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission Chairman
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8/12/24
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Every five years, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) does a “Census of Agriculture” to look at agriculture in the United States.
They gather a lot of statistics from …
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Maureen Harkcom / For The Reflector
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8/5/24
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Washington voters will be asked this fall how much salmon recovery is worth.
How committed are they to supporting programs that reduce carbon pollution and help communities
withstand the …
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Ed Johnstone
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7/15/24
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While wind and solar farms generate greenhouse gas-free electricity, there are ongoing concerns over their impacts on our environment, especially as a rapidly growing number of worn-out blades and …
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Don C. Brunell
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7/8/24
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A dozen years ago, the state Supreme Court declared our state’s approach to funding K-12 education had failed.
Some legislators wanted to respond to the historic ruling in McCleary v. …
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Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
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7/1/24
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Greg Kimsey, Clark County Auditor, is smooth, I’ll give him that much. Yet, when it comes to the truth, he plays pretty fast and loose. He knows he’s considered the “expert,” …
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Rob Anderson
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6/17/24
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This year marked the 40th anniversary of the partnership between treaty tribes and our state co-managers to establish salmon fisheries.
Each spring since 1984, we’ve held a series of …
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Ed Johnstone / NWIFC Chairman
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6/10/24
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