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Hello? We’re stress-testing our tourism infrastructure

June 30, 2021 by Methow Valley News

In Winthrop, the pandemic has been good for business. Yet some town merchants say they and the town were woefully unprepared to handle the size and behavior of the crowds. Winthrop’s joined the big leagues, becoming yet another tourist town struggling to keep tourism from shredding the cultural fabric and degrading the livability of the […]

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Hello? Canceling Liz Cheney

May 26, 2021 by Methow Valley News

U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney is living proof that even stopped clocks are right twice a day. Though she’s in error about many things, about Donald Trump’s danger to democracy Cheney actually is correct 24 hours a day. Give her the thanks she deserves. Cheney’s the only Republican leader — now fired — in Congress with […]

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Hello? A billionaire’s blueprint for saving the planet

April 28, 2021 by Methow Valley News

Bill Gates knows a lot. But he doesn’t know how thankful he should be for my quick reflexes. One evening in the mid-1990s, driving to a lecture in downtown Seattle, I spotted Bill and Melinda Gates headed for the same venue, arms entwined, deep in conversation. How remarkable and wonderful, I thought, that the world’s […]

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Hello? Will the state give corporations control of its water?

March 24, 2021 by Methow Valley News

If you lived in Twisp after the town lost its water rights, irrigated spawning salmon in your farm fields or waited in vain for water to appear at the empty end of the Methow Valley Irrigation District’s ditch, you understand water trouble. Or you may recall the bitter 25-year battle, fought to the U.S. Supreme […]

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Hello?

February 24, 2021 by Methow Valley News

Hello?

The Senate sends an SOS On Feb. 13, the United States Senate telegraphed an SOS that warned of clear and present danger. Asked to convict a former Republican president of fomenting violent insurrection against the government after he lost an election, most Republican senators refused. Instead, they clung to him like barnacles on a sinking […]

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E pluribus unum?

January 27, 2021 by Solveig Torvik

It’s stamped on our coins and paper currency, passports and treaties. It adorns our official national emblem, the Great Seal of the United States: E pluribus unum; “Out of many, one.” Since 1782, it’s been the traditional motto of the United States of America. It’s come to symbolize not only the 13 colonies that dared […]

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Are we a Christian nation?

December 30, 2020 by Solveig Torvik

Sometimes, the United States is alluded to as a “Christian nation.” Christianity encourages us to be kind and to consider the needs of the poor, sick and less fortunate to be as important as our own. This is a universally applauded code of behavior. Yet it’s Christians particularly, who, for two millennia, have run with […]

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Give thanks for Donald Trump

November 25, 2020 by Solveig Torvik

Well, then, people. We’ve given ourselves quite a little scare these last four years, haven’t we? This week we’re in the business of being thankful. And this year — despite a horrific, tragically preventable COVID-19 toll — we have more to be thankful for than we, as citizens of the world’s pre-eminent democracy, ever expected. First, we owe heartfelt […]

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What would Jesus do?

October 28, 2020 by Solveig Torvik

France’s most notorious female con artist, Marthe Hanau, was imprisoned in the 1930s for defrauding naïve French investors of so much money that financial markets, and the government, collapsed. Madame Hanau, who bribed government officials, was a high-wattage charlatan. She was so skilled at deceiving gullible investors, the New Yorker magazine’s Paris correspondent, Janet Flanner, […]

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Baked

September 30, 2020 by Solveig Torvik

We have passed the point of no return in altering the climate, achieving an unprecedented milestone in human history on Earth. We’ve succeeded — as long predicted — in sending enough greenhouse emissions aloft that ever more-extreme wildfires, floods, hurricanes, droughts and rising seas are “now irretrievably baked in,” a group of climate scientists told the New York Times […]

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