A few years back, a bumper sticker with a blunt message enjoyed some fleeting popularity in a few of the Northwest's outer reaches:
"We don't give a damn how they did it in California."
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By The Yakima Herald-Republic Editorial Board (TNS)
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12/24/23
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You might consider her a Christmas elf — at least a woman with a spirit of giving.
Every year, Charlene Scott crotchets 100 colorful caps using donated yarn and gives them away in the …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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12/23/23
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Walking down Centralia College Boulevard on a recent Saturday evening, through the floats lined up ahead of the Centralia Lighted Tractor Parade, I had an amazing moment.
To the left, I could …
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By Bob Mohbacher / Centralia College president
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12/23/23
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In the 1990s, “things go better with Coca Cola” was the catchy slogan that dairy farmers dreaded.
At the time, milk producers were in a head-to-head battle with soft drink giants and …
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By Don Brunell
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12/23/23
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Seven years ago, I was certain I’d never live in Lewis County again.
Certainty, I’d learn, is fickle at age 18.
On March 15, 2021, 10 days after my 23rd birthday, I entered the …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / For The Chronicle
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12/22/23
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Traditions are a mysterious thing.
Some are created and passed down with great fanfare and solemnity. But others are born quietly and enter our lives unnoticed. After just a little repetition, …
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Commentary by Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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12/22/23
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“I love jumping into icy cold water in January,” said nobody. That’s what I thought, anyway.
However, a group of brave volunteers will plunge into Mayfield Lake on Jan. 27 to …
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By Peter Abbarno
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12/20/23
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I read an interesting question posed by a columnist a while back asking how long before artificial intelligence (AI) would be smarter than humans.
I’ll admit, I don’t fully …
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By John McCroskey / For The Chronicle
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12/20/23
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“Life seems to go without effort when I am filled with music,” George Eliot once said.
Every year around this time, my mom and dad would bring out our Christmas albums.
I …
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12/20/23
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A woman in Washington, D.C., emailed me last week about the heart-rending column I wrote about my niece’s stillborn baby.
Elizabeth “Liz” O’Donnell’s baby, Aaliyah, …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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12/18/23
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Does anyone else feel a little snowed in by Christmas season events?
I try to say “Yule see me there” to just about everything in December, but there are simply too many …
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By Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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12/15/23
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The Evergreen State has always been one of the safer places to live, work and raise a family in America, going back at least as far as 1960.
Tragically, as of 2022, that’s no longer …
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12/15/23
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People of my generation and a bit younger probably remember Aesop's fable “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.” The moral it taught was that living in poverty with security is better …
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Commentary by Maureen Harkcom
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12/13/23
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It is that time of year when people put up their outside holiday lights and displays. Judging from our neighborhood, they are decorating more than usual.
In our country, 90 percent of …
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By Don Brunell
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12/8/23
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On Tuesday down in Olympia, in a hearing about the crime surge that swamped America during the pandemic, the committee chairman said he had one big question.
"I want to frame this around what …
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Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/7/23
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After a long run of strong spending, there are signs that consumers are beginning to slow down the pace of purchasing just a bit.
U.S. retail sales fell 0.1% in October, the first decline …
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By Kris Johnson / Association of Washington Business
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12/6/23
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Thirteen-year-old Bill Murdock’s district sales manager called on a Sunday in early December. The Oregon Journal printed a special edition for him to sell on the streets of Astoria that blared …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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12/4/23
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You know what makes the most wonderful time of the year even better? Getting out and getting together as you give back to our community.
There are a lot of ways to do that in the weeks …
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By Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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12/1/23
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Oct. 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation.
During peace and holiday, invading Hamas gunmen murdered, tortured, mass raped, decapitated and mutilated some 1,200 …
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By Victor Davis Hanson
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12/1/23
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As the 50th anniversary of the Boldt decision nears, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has room to improve as co-managers with treaty tribes.
Judge Boldt’s 1974 ruling in U.S. v. …
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By Ed Johnstone / Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
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11/29/23
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