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Opinion

October 15, 2020

OPINION: Follow the money before you vote

We know spending hours of your free time listening to political debates isn’t something anyone (except maybe a few political journalists who live for the thrill of election season) really wants to do right now, especially in the middle of a deadly global pandemic that our current president seems hellbent on spreading far and wide despite public health experts’ dire warnings against shooting for “herd immunity.”

October 8, 2020

Coronavirus spurs RV sales and rentals

Interestingly, while restaurants and airlines continue to be clobbered by the coronavirus, recreational vehicle (RV) sales and rentals are taking off. People have switched their travel preferences to minimize their COVID-19 exposure.

October 1, 2020

OPINION: WA state has made voting easy and safe; don’t squander it

We realize many of our readers may already be a few clicks past “burned out” this election season — especially if they happened to tune in to that trainwreck of a presidential debate on Tuesday — but we would urge folks to dig deep and not let interest in the election wane over the next few weeks.

October 1, 2020

How to stop fake news from faking you out

The term “fake news” gained traction during the 2016 U.S. presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and it has since become a familiar phrase in the American political vernacular.

September 24, 2020

OPINION: September Cheers & Jeers

There is no joy in writing this September Cheers & Jeers column. Normally, September, the month of back-to-school stories and fall sports coverage, is one of the happier…

September 24, 2020

COVID-19 compounds recycling calamity

What happens in China, doesn’t always stay in China. We learned that a couple of years ago when the Chinese stopped buying massive volumes of the world’s used paper, plastics and textiles; and, again last March when the novel coronavirus COVID-19 escaped Wuhan and spread across the planet.