Depending on how you measure success, the recently concluded Washington legislative session was either really great, not as terrible as normal or a frustrating combination of progress and setbacks …
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By Kris Johnson / Association of Washington Business
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5/3/23
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Whether you are reading this on Thursday, May 4, in the newspaper or viewing it online, you may not be aware that tomorrow — Friday — is a momentous day in the life of this struggling …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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5/3/23
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Few people alive today can say their grandfather fought in the Civil War, but a Toledo man can. Don Buswell, who still lives in the house where he was born more than a century ago, is proud of his …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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5/1/23
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Republicans came into this year’s legislative session vowing to fix the state’s drug-possession law so offenders would have more incentive to enter and complete treatment. We remain …
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By Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
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4/28/23
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Back in the 1980s, home from college, I visited my sister’s new rental house in Vancouver one night and, as the evening progressed, I ran to the store for something. When I returned, I opened …
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4/28/23
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It was the best of times in Chehalis, it was the worst of times in Centralia.
With apologies to Charles Dickens, one could write a novel about Lewis County's largest school districts this …
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By Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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4/28/23
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In one of the columns I started to write — prior to my taking a rest from 15 years of writing weekly columns for this newspaper — I touched on the topic of artists who found their own way …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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4/26/23
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The failure of state lawmakers to do anything about the surging drug crisis is one of the worst policy face-plants I've seen in local politics going back 30 years.
Rarely is the gap so wide …
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Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/26/23
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President Joe Biden is unwisely “throttling up” plans to ditch carbon fuels unilaterally despite the extreme consequences of doing so. He wants to accelerate the replacement of gas/diesel …
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By Don C. Brunell
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4/25/23
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