December 26, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
President-elect Donald Trump is claiming a special mandate by winning the popular vote, though only by a little over 2 million and getting below 50 percent of the popular vote. If the Electoral College had already been scrapped, would the popular vote have been significantly changed by the candidates campaigning… Read story
December 26, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
I wonder how many Donald Trump voters understand that they actually voted for an immigrant – Elon Musk – as President of the United States. I wonder how many of those same voters realize that Musk was at one point working illegally in the United States. He dropped out of… Read story
December 26, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
More than 44,000 Palestinians have now perished in the Gaza Strip at the hands of Israel in response to the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel in October 2023. Moshe Yaalon, an Israeli ex-defense minister, recently accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing. Disease and starvation are widespread. Read story
December 25, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
Seems all Donald Trump’s appointees and himself are getting their “enemies list” ready. They would be well to understand and remember what happened to President Richard Nixon and his “list.” Read story
December 25, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
In 2023, our Clark Public Utilities commissioners voted to contribute $200,000 to Energy Northwest to pursue small modular nuclear reactors at Hanford. Questions and concerns were raised by commissioners and ratepayers. Commissioners went ahead with the contribution anyway. Enter Amazon (“Amazon offers $334M for nuclear reactors to be built at… Read story
December 25, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
The city of Vancouver is failing to meet its commitment to clean water and “no net loss” in critical areas. It does not use and maintain the land and water along Burnt Bridge Creek as a regional park and the Growth Management Act critical area that it is. It does… Read story
December 25, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
I couldn’t help but chuckle and later frown while reading the article concerning C-Trans budget figures (“C-Tran plans for growth with $93M budget for 2025,” The Columbian, Dec. 11). How could anyone be giddy about a small increase in ridership when the ridership creates less than 3 percent of the… Read story
December 24, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
With one month left before Donald Trump returns to the White House, we are running out of time to lock in protections for our climate and communities. One critical action President Joe Biden can take right now is to permanently shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline. Read story
December 24, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
I so agree with a letter about how few people are using the Vine buses on Mill Plain Boulevard. We also count the number of passengers and come up with one or two. Seems to me that the small van buses would be much more cost efficient. Even the normal-sized… Read story
December 24, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
Am I the only one who has a real problem with the city of Vancouver spending lots of tax dollars to house and care for the homeless? I think not, and unless city leaders get off their crazy train, things will only slide further down the rat hole. Read story
