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November 11, 2021

The problem with vaccine mandates

I live near Middlefield, Ohio, the center of the fourth-largest Amish settlement in America. I regularly see the horse and buggy operations on the road. Who am I to tell these people that I know better about how they should live than they do? Very few Amish people are getting the COVID vaccine and Amish communities have experienced some of the state’s highest rates of infection and deaths, but they are living according to their faith and God’s will.

November 4, 2021

Why is U.S. military spending increasing to outlandish levels?

Although critics of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan to increase funding for United States education, healthcare, and action against climate catastrophe say the U.S. can’t afford it, there are no such qualms about ramping up funding for the U.S. military.

October 28, 2021
A ballot box stands near the Camas Post Office on Oct. 16, 2020. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

Letters to the Editor for Oct. 28, 2021

Henriksen: support ‘moderate, experienced, dependable’ candidates People have been asking who I believe in and support in the upcoming election. In addition to my previous endorsement of Steve…

October 14, 2021

To save our democracy, rational Republicans must find ‘thread of truth’

In my college days, I was a conservative Republican. I voted for Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. But I gave up on the party during the presidential election of 2008. I admired John McCain, still do, but Sarah Palin was a bridge too far, and, like many other Republicans in 2008, I voted Democratic for the first time in my life.

September 30, 2021

September Cheers & Jeers

We’re happy to kick off this month’s Cheers & Jeers column with a bit of good news. CHEERS to the fact that the cooling rains have returned, bringing some much needed relief to the months-long drought in the Pacific Northwest — the worst in nearly 130 years according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources — and hopefully putting an end to the devastating 2021 wildfire season that saw more than 1 million acres in Oregon and Washington go up in flames by mid-August.