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Letters to the Editor

Letter: Leave Veterans Day alone

May 8, 2025, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

What gives President Donald Trump the idea that changing the name of Veterans Day to Victory Day is a good thing? Read story

Letter: Charging stations are good idea

May 8, 2025, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

The effort to increase the number of charging stations in Vancouver’s high-density neighborhoods is laudable, not a dumb idea as Vicki Coles suggests (“City plan is ridiculous,” Our Readers’ Views, May 3). Read story

Letter: Protect America’s children

May 7, 2025, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Head Start — a program that has empowered millions of children and families through high-quality early learning, nutritious meals, family support services and meaningful parental involvement. Read story

Letter: Protect local beverage industry

May 7, 2025, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

The recent proposal to study Washington’s alcohol tax system isn’t about fairness — it’s about giving a tax break to global spirit companies at the expense of our local beer, wine and cider producers. Read story

Letter: Musk, Trump cause trouble

May 7, 2025, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

The trouble twins are in the news daily. Both great businessmen, Elon Musk is showing us how to lose his own money and Donald Trump has been helping us lose our money. Read story

Letter: Preserve golf in Clark County

May 6, 2025, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

Recently, Vancouver and Clark County have lost Lakeview, Hartwood, Cedars golf courses and Vanco Golf Range. Read story

Letter: SAVE Act is real problem

May 6, 2025, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

A recent letter from a woman with multiple name changes said it had not been a big deal in her life. I agree — in the past, it wasn’t a big deal. Read story

Letter: Thoughts about due process

May 6, 2025, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

People in uniforms, masked, whisked me away into a black SUV. They didn’t say much, other than I was accused of being an alien enemy and a purveyor of fentanyl. I exclaimed that I was born, via many generations, a U.S. citizen, that I’d never even seen fentanyl, let along… Read story

Letter: County council has one last chance

May 6, 2025, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

The Clark County Council has one last chance (1 p.m. May 7) to change course on their destructive path with the Comprehensive Plan Update, where they recently voted to carry out a study with the goal of letting Ridgefield and La Center develop 519 acres of agricultural land and create… Read story

Letter: Big issues need attention

May 5, 2025, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

I was one of the hundreds of people who couldn’t get into the Luepke Center to participate in Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s town hall. I appreciate her willingness to hold a town hall. But she has twice selected venues that couldn’t possibly accommodate the number of people who wanted to… Read story

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