Wine tourism doesn't stop at the winery - There's only so much cheerleading you can lead before action is required. That's where the Yakima Valley finds itself with respect to wine tourism. We have heard the bubbly testimonials about how our wine region is another Napa Valley. That kind of positi...MORE...
03/21/10 Letters to the Editor - A messed-up judicial system To the editor -- Re: The March 2 article, "Supreme Court case: $2 million in public funds for ... what?" I was angered, but not surprised to read this article. It's just another example of how messed up our judicial system real...MORE...
03/20/10 Letters to the Editor - Scam phone calls To the editor -- Thank you for printing the March 6 article, "Police warn of new round of phone scams." I have received three of these phone calls so far and of course always hang up. One phone call even came at 5 in the morning! A woman...MORE...
Duck muck: Oregon football officials sending mixed messages - Here's what you get when you mix a winning sports program with higher education: a mess. The University of Oregon has turned a nightmarish string of arrests within its Rose Bowl-tested football team into an equally nightmarish attempt to set an example an...MORE...
03/19/10 Letters to the Editor - Health care bill is too long To the editor -- According to media reports, there are 2,000 to 3,000 pages in the Senate/House health care reform bill currently being scrutinized. Compare this to the total amount of pages in the U.S. Constitution, the Bill...MORE...
03/18/10 Letters to the Editor - Answers for uninsured To the editor -- The 2008 Census Bureau reports 46.3 million are health uninsured (since 1987, the rate has been consistently around 15 percent). Of that total, 12.3 million or 27 percent are uninsured noncitizen immigrants burdening...MORE...
Keep eye on business while March Madness prevails - This editorial appears in the March 18, 2010, Yakima Herald-Republic. Once a rite of spring, it is now the right to springtime indolence: the NCAA basketball tournament, that frenzied festivity of hardcourt hysteria appropriately marketed as March Madnes...MORE...
03/18/10 Online Letters to the Editor - Where's the outrage? To the editor -- Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. It is not outrageous for them to build anywhere in their capital city. To those who support Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and their statements regarding the building of apartments in ...MORE...
03/17/10 Letters to the Editor - Change for the good To the editor -- Some question what I think happens after we vote out the incumbents. (See "Vote out incumbents," Letters, Feb. 24.) We would learn to be content, and our nation's debt would go down. Our government is spending money it...MORE...
Overdose immunity bill could cost lives - This editorial appears in the March 17, 2010, Yakima Herald-Republic. With gang shootings and violence occurring with unsettling regularity throughout our communities in Central Washington, it's rather odd to see lawmakers in Olympia extending a hand of...MORE...
Special session? Hasn't Legislature done enough damage? - This editorial appears in the March 16, 2010, Yakima Herald-Republic. Who says lawmakers in Olympia don't know what they're doing? By passing a measure last week to make it a primary offense for talking on a cell phone while driving, legislators have cra...MORE...
03/16/10 Letters to the Editor - FAA's airport boondoggle To the editor -- I'd like to address what I see as reckless government spending. Union Gap's extension of the Valley Mall Boulevard was a great traffic move. However, moving South 16th Avenue 200 feet east at the end of the airpor...MORE...
State employee raises are on taxpayers' dime - Before this year's legislative session began, I told the Yakima Herald-Republic editorial board that we should make government more efficient before we gut small-school funding or raise taxes. The first step, I said, is for the...MORE...
03/15/10 Letters to the Editor - Stimulus works To the editor -- What do United States 1929, Japan 1990s, Mexico, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Korea 1997 and Argentina 2002 have in common? Nobel economist Paul Krugman observes that during the years listed, each country entered a dee...MORE...
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