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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Dear East Lewis County community,
We are writing today with immense gratitude and joy to share a monumental achievement that we have accomplished together. It brings me immense pleasure to …
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12/13/23
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Let’s talk about the “ welfare check” for which Jim Howe blindly praised the Centralia police and the Lewis County 911 center in a letter to the editor published in Tuesday’s …
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12/13/23
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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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In Beasley Coliseum in Pullman on Saturday, a fan group of 16 applauded loudly when our new son-in-law stood along with other first-generation college graduates.
Chase Conaway, a 2019 W.F. West …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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12/11/23
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Last evening, at midnight, I was awakened by a loud pounding on my bedroom window.
I looked out but didn't see anyone, so I slipped on my robe and went into my living room where I observed a …
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12/11/23
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I was slowed by what appears to be a good-old-fashioned common cold this first week of December, and this morning I found my 61-year-old self writing a letter to Santa. I would like to share it with …
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12/11/23
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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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Given the deep concerns I personally experienced earlier this year when watching local police stand back as a group of self-professed neo-Nazi agitators attempted to incite a riot at local Pride …
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12/6/23
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Has Richard DeBolt’s Economic Alliance of Lewis County placed a “for sale cheap” sign on Lewis County and its tax and electric ratepayers?
DeBolt’s Alliance supports …
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12/6/23
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Recent development activities along the banks of the Newaukum River near Interstate 5 are near a beautiful river, and an important one being a prone corridor for fish, salmon and land-based wildlife. …
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12/6/23
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The dictionary describes evolution as the theory that all existing organisms developed from earlier forms by natural selection. In another word, Darwinism.
There is no suggestion as to …
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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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In pursuit of more growth and profit at any cost, Napavine officials and developers have committed an irreversible disservice to their own community.
Having only recently approved the …
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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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