OPINION
No Bad Days – It’s the accumulation
Life is full of perspective checks. Feeling beleaguered, put-upon, unfairly inconvenienced? Just read or listen to the news, if you can bear it. War in Ukraine. Earthquake in Turkey. Mass shootings nearly every day. Unimaginable national debt. Tech sector job losses. The undemocratization of Florida. Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity caught telling the truth. George […]
My Turn – Jamie’s Place needs community support to grow
By Ray Johnston and Mary Johnston As residents of the Twisp area, we have been thinking about the support we and many of our neighbors may need in coming years. Hopefully that support can happen for most at home, but for some additional care may be needed. This has been a rough winter in some […]
Letters to the Editor: March 8, 2023
Some omissions Dear Editor: The book by Dennis Drabelle, “The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmstead and the Origin of National Parks,” is indeed worth reading if you realize that the name Yellowstone has drawn the heaviest viewership yet recorded. Or maybe you’ve seen the long lineup of cars whose passengers were hoping to visit […]
Harts Pass: March 1, 2023
Editorial Cartoon: March 1, 2023
No Bad Days – Do it again?
A longtime colleague, boss, mentor and friend — now in his 90s and still as mentally acute as ever — recently mused on his website about whether he would choose journalism as a profession again if he were a young person today. It’s a good question, one that occurs to me occasionally. My friend Dean […]
Writers on the Range – Backcountry adventurers practice safety, and know they’re taking chances
By Molly AbsolonWriters on the Range Six people have died in avalanches in the United States since the snow started to fly this fall. Every year, an average of 27 people — skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers, snowshoers — die this way. For people who don’t venture into the backcountry in winter, the thought of potentially dying […]
Letters to the Editor: March 1, 2023
Affirming health care rights Dear Editor: It isn’t just in the right-wing governed states where women’s right to choose and everyone’s right to access many forms of health care are under attack. Here in progressive Washington, it isn’t laws or government officials doing it. It’s much more insidious. It is the Catholic church doing it. […]
