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Friday,  April 26 , 2024

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Letters to the Editor

Letter: Make reparations for Palestine

April 26, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

Now would be a good time to open hospitals in the occupied territory of Israel to handle a massive number of criminal victims in Gaza. Read story

Letter: Thanks for lighthearted reporting

April 26, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

Ever since I took a civics class in high school, I’ve subscribed to a newspaper, knowing that it provided honest reporting which is so vital to an informed public. Read story

Letter: Vancouver budget cuts don’t add up

April 26, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

I’m concerned about the lack of transparency by Vancouver Public Schools leadership implementing the board-approved $35 million budget cuts. This lack of transparency includes the inability to follow the budget reduction plan. Read story

Letter: Changes needed in Evergreen

April 26, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

With the sudden retirement of John Boyd, the Evergreen School Board has an opportunity to do a reset for the district after losing a third superintendent in under seven years. I am hopeful that the board will take a much stronger leadership role, understanding that this degree of instability is… Read story

Letter: Immigrants help keep America great

April 25, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

There’s an overlooked chapter in Abraham Lincoln’s legacy. In addition to leading the Union through the Civil War, he was a history-making leader on another front. Read story

Letter: Place focus on rehabilitation

April 25, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

Of course, the jail is too small. Of course, prisons are too expensive. How can this be a surprise when the U.S. chooses to incarcerate 2 million of its citizens at annual cost of more than $80 billion, an annual cost of more than $39,000 per inmate in federal prisons… Read story

Letter: Freight rail is safe, efficient

April 25, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

We are writing in support of the letter “Protect historic Chelatchie railroad,” (Our Readers’ Views, April 15). Read story

Letter: School budgets have problems

April 25, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

Big budgetary problems in schools. The superintendent of Washougal School District, Mary Templeton, makes $245,475 yearly, $82.37 per student (2,980 students). Read story

Letter: Where are we today?

April 24, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

This week I read about a local young person who had recently graduated from high school. Before college she took a year to volunteer with a climate activist organization. The article went on to say that she was arrested during a climate protest at Vice President Kamala Harris’ house. Read story

Letter: Homelessness requires big fix

April 24, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

If you discover water running out from under your sink onto your nice hardwood floors, would you just get a towel and wipe it up and continue to wipe up the water until you run out of towels, or would you check to see where the source of the problem… Read story

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