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Each election season provides more entertainment than the last.
In 1994, my first election, there were a total of eight candidates competing to become Lewis County sheriff.
One of the …
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Commentary by John McCroskey
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7/1/26
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Editor's note: To ready part one of this two-part installment, visit https://tinyurl.com/kth99h8u .
At McMenamins Olympic Club in Centralia earlier this month, Seattle speaker Casey …
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Commentary by Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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6/29/26
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Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a two-part series on America’s founding. The second installment will be published later this week.
Imagine a people who had crossed dangerous …
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Commentary by Sean Swope
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6/29/26
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Washington state’s third-highest-in-the-nation gas tax is going up again on July 1, 2026.
It will be the first “automatic” or “inflation-based” increase since ESHB 2711, signed …
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By Bob Pishue / Mountain States Policy Center
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6/29/26
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I’ve admired Ben Sasse for many years.
I appreciated his respectful, moral and strong approach to public policy as a U.S. senator from Nebraska.
Dare I say it, he seemed to …
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Commentary by Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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6/26/26
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It’s becoming more and more clear that Washington's state Legislature continues to spend like crazy.
And while the blame is placed on the eternal boogyman, President Trump, that …
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Commentary bu John McCroskey / For The Chronicle
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6/26/26
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Our editorial board has always thought our area was very fortunate to have David Plotz as manager of Lewis County Public Utility District (PUD).
That quiet organization has kept the lights …
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By The Chronicle Editorial Board
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6/24/26
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When I was younger, I used to hear people talk about “the people who stay.”
Sometimes it was said with admiration, and sometimes it wasn't.
There was often an assumption buried inside …
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Commentary by Wayne Fournier
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6/24/26
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That conundrum that keeps happening with the rich is happening again.
They are said to be leaving this state. Yet collections for a tax on wealth have smashed records — again.
For all the …
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Commentary by Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/24/26
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Heading to the McMenamins Olympic Club History Pub last week, I looked forward to learning more about the legendary “smiling bandit” and “last American train robber” who was captured in …
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Commentary by Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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6/22/26
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Amidst evidence of signature gatherers being harassed, Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown is offering his support to prosecute those trying to interfere with the initiative and referendum …
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By Sam Cardwell / Mountain States Policy Center
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6/22/26
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On Father’s Day weekend during this 250th anniversary of America, I’ve been thinking about a couple of fatherly founding figures: George Washington, the military general and president who became …
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By Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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6/19/26
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What happened on May 26, 2026, is horrible.
Eleven people died in Longview.
That sentence should stop all of us for a moment. Eleven workers left for work and never came home after a …
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6/19/26
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Hello friends, neighbors and all those who call East Lewis County home.
As I approach my first year as chief executive officer of Arbor Health, a remarkable community-owned healthcare …
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By Eric “Max” Neal, Arbor Health CE0
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6/19/26
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The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass himself was born into …
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Commentary by Rodney D. Coates / For The Washington State Standard
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6/19/26
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As a Lewis County commissioner who helped appoint Brian Mittge to the Timberland Regional Library Board of Trustees, I am appalled by the vicious character assassination and scapegoating aimed at …
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Commentary by Sean Swope
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6/17/26
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For decades, the Port of Centralia has pursued a simple mission: create jobs, expand economic opportunity and strengthen our local tax base.
That mission is not new. It is not controversial. And …
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Commentary by Chad Taylor
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6/17/26
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For three decades, Geary Lockard has owned and operated Tilikum Books & Bindery, first in Olympia and for more than two dozen years on Tower Avenue in Centralia, but June 30 marks the end of an …
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Commentary by Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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6/15/26
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On June 5, the director of Gov. Bob Ferguson's Office of Financial Management (OFM) sent every state agency a letter telling them to brace for what she called "the most challenging budget any of us …
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By Ryan Frost / Washington Policy Center
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6/15/26
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“From these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ...”
— President Abraham Lincoln, 1863
We’re halfway through …
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Commentary by Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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6/12/26
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