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Hello? – Stop defending the indefensible

June 29, 2022 by Solveig Torvik

“Tonight I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.” That searing admonition by Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming on June 9 came as the U.S. House of Representatives launched hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, […]

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Hello? – We are not a theocracy

May 25, 2022 by Solveig Torvik

“That which is a sin within a certain set of religious beliefs is to be made a crime for all.” — Author Margaret Atwood on the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft decision rescinding the right to abortion. *** Never interrupt an enemy when he’s making a mistake, Napoleon Bonaparte advised. Pining to abolish the Electoral College? Safeguard […]

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Hello? What’s next?

February 23, 2022 by Solveig Torvik

Hello? What’s next?

We’re emerging from our second winter of COVID cocoonery with our collective happiness riding on what We the People do next. Do we fold and fade under the stress of multiple, unprecedented system failures? Or — COVID-hardened and resilient — do we repair our failing civic, energy and climate systems? A lot of mischief slipped […]

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Hello?: What’s our national civic culture?

January 26, 2022 by Solveig Torvik

Hello?: What’s our national civic culture?

It’s fair to ask why a country with as much promise as ours seems unable to capitalize on its extraordinary strengths to solve existential threats. We don’t lack means to combat pandemics, climate destabilization, social injustice or seditious attempts to overthrow government. We lack the will. How did we come to set this table? Let’s […]

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Hello? Let’s not opt for the common bad

December 29, 2021 by Methow Valley News

Hello? Let’s not opt for the common bad

There’s a telling word we Americans like to use to identify ourselves: “taxpayer.” When we complain about our government, taxpayer — not citizen — is the term we typically invoke to legitimize our concerns. “Citizen” isn’t a word that leaps nearly so readily off the American tongue as taxpayer. In fact, citizen seems a word […]

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Hello? The definition of insanity

November 23, 2021 by Solveig Torvik

That irritating Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, a sharp critic of empty posturing on climate change, aptly summed up the recent Glasgow COP26 international climate crisis confab: “Blah, blah, blah.” The elephant in Glasgow labored mightily  — and brought forth a mouse. Once again. Thunberg and her cohorts — 100,000 of whom reportedly showed up to […]

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Hello? Heading for infamy

October 27, 2021 by Solveig Torvik

Hello? Heading for infamy

“The existential threat to humanity is climate change.” — President Joe Biden, Oct. 21, 2021 We’re asking the wrong question about Joe Manchin III, the Democratic senator from West Virginia. Getting the nation’s electricity grid off Earth-warming fossil fuel feedstock was the critical centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s ambitious effort to cope with climate change […]

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Hello? A wretched triumph of American ‘exceptionalism’

September 29, 2021 by Solveig Torvik

Hello? A wretched triumph of American ‘exceptionalism’

“Folks are supposed to have common sense. But it’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks … It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.” — Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey, July 23. Hey, vaccine refusers. Listen up. People are losing patience with your lame excuses for failing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. This […]

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Hello? Fighting for a livable Earth

August 25, 2021 by Methow Valley News

“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Aug. 3, 2021. This spring’s Liberty Bell High School graduates are in the first cohort of young homo sapiens in history to get a genuinely long-term weather forecast. Regrettably, it promises 30 years of ruinous climate. […]

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Hello? — A troubling portrayal of the Methow

August 4, 2021 by Solveig Torvik

Hello? — A troubling portrayal of the Methow

The Methow Valley is a deeply divided community where wealthy urbanites “blind” to their privilege “hoard” their social capital while impoverished, excluded, resentful rural old-timers struggle to survive. This is the disturbing thesis of a new book, “Dividing Paradise; Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream,” authored by Washington State University associate professor of sociology […]

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