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Here come the Democrats

January 23, 2019 by Solveig Torvik

This one’s not for you, Republicans. Please move along quietly. You’ve had your fair share. This one’s for Democrats, who are about to be bathed in barrels of ink long spilled, to such poor effect, on you. Revealing an unsuspected appetite for bedlam, Republicans have taken a wrecking ball to the Republic. Democrats promise to […]

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Let’s burn more oil

December 26, 2018 by Methow Valley News

“We strongly believe that no country should have to sacrifice their [sic] economic prosperity or energy security in pursuit of environmental sustainability.” – Wells Griffith, President Trump’s international energy and climate adviser, United Nations climate meeting, Poland Dec. 10, 2018 Here’s an idea for a New Year’s resolution: Burn more oil. It’s the economy, Stupid. […]

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Voters earn a passing grade

November 28, 2018 by Methow Valley News

Though Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, remain thankful for this: 47 percent of the age-eligible — not the registered — citizenry voted in this mid-term election. We’ve not seen turnout this high for a mid-term in 50 years. Moreover, these voters did the one thing that had to be done. They removed control of the U.S. House of […]

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Slouching toward overshoot

October 24, 2018 by Methow Valley News

First, Lisa Murkowski. The senior senator from Alaska merits our attention on two counts: She holds the lonely distinction of being the only Republican senator to oppose Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s appointment to the United States Supreme Court, and she chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Murkowski, who interrogated Kavanaugh privately, did not […]

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Was democracy a mistake?

September 26, 2018 by Methow Valley News

Last fall the local Unitarian Universalist Fellowship invited me to speak about coping with our dysfunctional democracy. My message to the Unitarians was, in essence, that the dysfunction is their own fault. The Founders knowingly took an unthinkable risk when they put the power to govern into the hands of the governed. It’s on us. […]

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Let’s pretend

August 29, 2018 by Methow Valley News

Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening. — Donald Trump in a July 2018 speech in Kansas. Let’s pretend, just for the sake of implausible argument, that a goodly portion of the nation is being consumed by fierce wildfires. By Aug. 17, 2018, say federal officials, 40,880 fires had […]

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President Putin hits the jackpot

July 25, 2018 by Methow Valley News

We’re used to Donald Trump’s pitiful chest-thumping claim that he’s a strong leader. Which is why we never expected him to disprove it with the whole world watching. But last week Trump stood mano a mano in the glaring spotlight on the global stage with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and showed us, bigly, […]

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Invasion of the government baby-snatchers

June 28, 2018 by Methow Valley News

So, people, how are we liking the new, improved United States of America? Not so much, you say? Is it the unending White House chaos and blatant lying of its inhabitants that you find wearisome? Or is it life under a president whose governing goal is dividing the nation into warring camps? Perhaps it’s just […]

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Cry me a river, Facebookers

June 1, 2018 by Methow Valley News

If you’re gullible enough to have posted your personal information and photos on Facebook but now realize you’ve been betrayed, don’t come crying to me. I have no sympathy for your loss. Caveat emptor, people. And don’t go crying to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. He has no sympathy for your loss either, despite his many […]

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Legislators should obey state’s Public Records Act

April 26, 2018 by Methow Valley News

“A free press … is not the enemy of the American people; it is the protector of the American people.” — Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, April 6, 2018 Outraged citizens recently helped persuade Gov. Jay Inslee to veto an ill-considered bill to limit public disclosure of legislative records. But your right to know […]

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