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Antitrust cases against Google and Facebook are gathering steam, with new revelations and progress in what should be pivotal lawsuits against big tech.
When the nation’s second-largest school district reopens for business despite tens of thousands of positive coronavirus tests among students and staff, things have changed.
When I was a child, in the 1960s, our family had no television. I’d jump off the school bus and walk our half-mile driveway along Crooked Creek, dreaming of seeing an antennae sprouting from the ranch-house roof.
With COVID-19 cases surging and with hospitals facing staffing shortages, Gov. Jay Inslee has made a prudent decision to deploy the National Guard for assistance.
WENATCHEE — Bill Pratt, a decorated track athlete at Wenatchee High School and Stanford University in the late 1950s and early 1960s, has never lost his connection with the Wenatchee Valley.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Recently, at the Chelan County Regional Justice Center, we booked a 33-year-old man into the facility who has acute systolic heart failure. He was admitted to the local hospital three times in the previous two months, leaving each time against medical advice. This man does not take his medic…
Electric vehicles seem to be the wave of the future. One study suggests that by 2040, 60 percent of the cars will be electric. This begs one big question, “Where will the electricity come from?”
In the final days of his tenure as general manager of Chelan County PUD, I had the opportunity to chat with Steve Wright about what has been accomplished, his views on the community and what he’s planning to do next.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
The New Year is a time many of us resolve to do something new or different. While COVID-19 is a nightmare we’ve lived with for two long years, it too has resolved to do something new in 2022. COVID-19 has mutated again, resulting in the Omicron variant. This variant is incredibly contagious,…
COVID-19 has taken an immense toll on human life globally over the last two years. Each one of us has been affected by the virus. The past few months have been tremendously taxing on our families, health care workers, educational staff, and critical infrastructure. The COVID-19 Omicron varia…
As you likely know, many areas in North Central Washington and our entire state have been experiencing affordable housing challenges. Having stable housing is so fundamental to success in other areas of life, including successful careers and family stability. Washington state has an increasi…
Young people in the Wenatchee Valley are the future skilled trades, business and agricultural leaders, and health care workers of our community. Many rely on financial aid and scholarships, as well as academic advising and other resources to help them navigate their post-high school education.
For those of us who care about protecting democracy, 2021 has at times resembled the sort of nightmare where you see a friend standing on a train track but your screams about the looming danger can’t be heard. The runaway train of illiberalism continues to bear down on American democracy, an…
Looking back over a year's worth of work is a daunting challenge. With thousands of moments I've seen and been able to capture with this thing called photography, it makes me nervous to say, "these are my best." I know there are many more stories and people and interactions I've made that I …
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
It can take decades for the full effect of government policy to become visible — and decades for corrections to have an impact.
Media coverage of the debate over “Build Back Better,” President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion social policy and climate plan currently stalled in Congress, has focused so much on legislative strategy and the political drama between Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin that the most crucial element — wha…
Tracy Warner was editorial page editor at The Wenatchee World. He retired in 2017. This column was first published on Dec. 23, 2005.By Tracy Warner
A lack of affordable housing has complicated the fight to end homelessness in large and small communities around the state.
In the 1980s, when Grace and Tony Lopez boarded a plane in California to visit me in Philadelphia, they traveled with a blue-and-white cooler that contained a most precious cargo.
A new tally estimates at least 6,150 news industry jobs were lost during the pandemic, even as news readership surged.
A time for healing | The PAC has earned our support | Social Security increase not really an increase | Thank you to the staff at Plaza Super Jet | Tax breaks are a ripoff
The words are jarring, particularly considering their source.
Among his many memorable quotes, Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
Cop26 fails | Electric heating costs are similar to methane heating | New homes like these are out of place in Leavenworth | U.S. lacks border policy | Be safe for the holidays: do something about impaired driving | NCW Young Voters: The future of our democracy is in good hands | Thank you for an unexpected gift
Despite the highly contentious and emotion-driven political atmosphere that is ripping apart the social fabric in America, one can still find information sources based on rational discussion and mutual respect that invite us to listen to different perspectives and test our ideas.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Following the 2012 state Supreme Court’s McCleary decision regarding education funding, the Legislature made big investments into K-12 education and also limited what school districts could seek in local property tax levies, although the property tax limits did not hold up for long. As the p…
There is something magical about dahlias, those otherworldly-looking flowers, that causes ordinary people to develop a cult-like obsession with them; it's an obsession that knits together people from all walks of life.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Being 64 years old, with iron-poor everything, having worked for more than 40 years saving money and living frugally, I jumped at the chance to use an online calculator to see when I could comfortably retire.
“The Beatles: Get Back” documentary, which is my pick for best movie of the year, showcases an underappreciated aspect of Paul McCartney: He’s more than just an artistic genius — he’s one of the greatest managerial talents of the last century.
It was impossible to listen to the Supreme Court's oral arguments over a restrictive Mississippi abortion law without wondering how a woman who has experienced pregnancy and childbirth so many times could be so cavalier about it.
Bob Dole first emerged as a national figure in the early 1970s, defending President Richard Nixon’s Vietnam policies and excoriating such Democratic opponents as Sens. Edward Kennedy and George McGovern.
While searching for those perfect gifts this year, make sure your holiday cheer doesn't end with a holiday jeer.
Mike Bonnicksen came to the photography department in February of 1984. Like former photographer Kelly Gillin and myself, he was hired with the recommendation of then darkroom technician John Barta to do his job on Saturdays. Mike’s talent for capturing a story-telling moment propelled him t…
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
It’s time for everyone to pay their fair share I’m writing in response to the guest editorial by April Clayton and Collin Hathaway published last month about the state’s new capital gains tax.
Wenatchee native Erin Murray was recently crowned the World’s Strongest Woman in her weight class, but what she accomplished was as much the result of developing inner strength and resilience as physical strength.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
If it weren’t for U.S. gun companies supplying a steady stream of weapons for Mexico’s criminal organizations, my then-16-year-old cousin Diego might not have been kidnapped in 2015. His mother, Veronica Rosas Valenzuela, might not be sifting through sewage searching for him this month in El…
The breaching of the Condit Dam along the White Salmon River might or might not provide some lessons about dam removal. But it definitely offers instruction about the remarkable resiliency of ecosystems.
You have probably heard by now that Washington’s Redistricting Commission failed to meet its Nov. 15 deadline to adopt rebalanced maps of the federal Congressional and state legislative districts.
(Editor’s note: This is the second of three columns focusing on the book: “Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream” by WSU sociologist Jennifer Sherman)
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
We all have blind spots. We see the world from our own experience, education and background and deceive ourselves into thinking that our perspective is correct and the viewpoint of others is faulty. That’s why it’s important to seek out different viewpoints and consider evidence that counters our thinking.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Another COVID Thanksgiving has come and gone. Another COVID Christmas is upon us. What once seemed unthinkable is now an unavoidable fact of life — a persistent virus that impacts everything we do.
There’s a solution to staffing shortage The shortage is causing problems for the stores and customers all over the country.
The Greater Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce underwent a remarkable transformation under the leadership of executive director Shiloh Burgess, who recently left to take a government affairs position with Douglas County PUD.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
There’s a solution to staffing shortage
Inspired by the “butter cow” seen on a long-ago trip to the Iowa State Fair, I grabbed a big block of cheese the other day and attempted to carve something gallery worthy — a tiny cow.
Time to stop shouting — me included
Don’t use Deaconess for prison work release center
The University of Austin, a new academic institution created by a group of donors and intellectuals unhappy about the increasingly left-wing tilt of Anglophone academia, was unveiled last week. Many faculty at existing universities, including several who are not especially left-wing, were un…
On Nov. 25, 1972, a man who bought a plane ticket under the name Dan Cooper activated the rear air stairs on a Boeing 727 jetliner somewhere over Southwest Washington and disappeared into history.
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