The evidence is obvious. Year after year, one terrible fire season is followed by another terrible fire season. In the last 50 years there has been no significant improvement in how the Forest Service fights forest fires. Maintaining the status quo means there is no hope now, or in the futur…

Living on this side of the Cascades can be isolating when it comes to engaging in politics, especially during snowy months when Snoqualmie Pass turns into a ski slalom and Olympia might as well be as far off as the original city of that name, the one nestled on the Peloponnese peninsula.

PUD: Great service

Even we are impressed.

The weather is finally starting to heat up — and that means summer is coming.

Kudos to World librarian Linda Barta for her Apple Blossom Past series

It has been remarkable to witness the impact that the Our Valley Our Future effort is having on the Wenatchee Valley and the momentum continues to build.

Schism of Democratic Party as champion of under-privileged

There were maybe 50 or 60 of us gathered in the Pybus Public Market parking lot, a light drizzle amid the gray, early-evening skies. We were there for a quick bike ride through town, escorted by a police car with flashing lights.

Kelli Scott editorial

Sounds good but details, please

At a candidates’ forum less than one month before her election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016, Pramila Jayapal of Seattle said she supported removing dams on “the Columbia and Snake River.”

While at work in the nation’s capital, it is easy to boast about Washington’s robust agriculture industry, thriving tech and manufacturing sectors, and prosperous trade relationships with countries all over the world. I often remind my colleagues in Congress that Washington is the most trade…

Gus Becker’s guest editorial in the May 3 edition was a remarkable piece of self-serving propaganda. His characterization of the public process that led to the compromise winter recreation plan in the Stemilt Basin is completely different than my experience.

History repeats: Fascism on the rise

Just five short years ago, our valley took the first steps toward what at the time was a radical paradigm shift: Beginning to look at this as a region rather than as a collection of cities and counties.

This weekend, we celebrate our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, stepmothers and all the women who love and nurture us.

Recycle the newspaper plastic bags

Raising a child...or two...or three...can wear you out. It's why it's always best to tag-team, or partner up.

While its transformation from a depressed timber town to thriving "Bavarian" village has been remarkable over the last half century - Leavenworth might be pushing the proverbial "Golden Goose" to its limits if a planned amusement park project is allowed to move forward.

Trump: Lies and ‘fake news’

Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr's indifference to their hysteria over the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

So the Legislature, apparently not swayed by Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz's dance moves with Smokey Bear, failed to approve a bill seeking $62.5 million for the Department of Natural Resources' newly formed Wildfire Prevention and Suppression Account. The reason, no doubt, was l…

Time to Re-Brand Wenatchee?

Teddy Roosevelt: A corrected view

You may have seen them at the Apple Blossom Festival last weekend. You may have heard them. They were there, this small and ghastly group, at the parade and the food fair, holding up oversized posters of bloody fetuses, yelling about murder and genocide and hell. Maybe they yelled at you, or…

The successful effort to renovate Kiwanis Methow Park is cause for a heck of a party. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held this Saturday, May 11, from 1-4 p.m. at the park and everyone is invited.

National School Nurse Day, an annual observation sponsored by the National Association of School Nurses, is designed to honor all school nurses. This year’s celebration falls on May 8.

State lawmakers were right to earmark $10.3 million in the 2019-21 operating budget to eliminate the state's backlog of sexual assault evidence kits. The allocation will give the Washington State Patrol the resources it needs to tackle the problem, a mandate to do so by the end of 2021 and t…

Wow! That had to be the craziest last four days of session I’ve ever experienced. It is going to take time to unpack and analyze everything that happened including a new stealth tax increase using a Title Only bill, public process gone to hell, breaking the McCleary K-12 funding property tax…

Driving through Wenatchee may be hazardous to your health

There is nothing fake about the Apple Blossom Festival. It really does have a queen and her court. And there's a parade, foot race, bike race, carnival, ball, movie and all kinds of events associated with that community tradition that is celebrating its 100th year.

Assaulting conservatives with anti-Trump opinions

I would like to thank the entire community of Chelan for the resounding defeat of the Lake Chelan School District bond issue before the voters on April 23.

So, a professional hockey team — composed of 13 white players in a league where 95 percent of all players are also white and beat the hell out of each other in front of a 93-percent white audience — is offended by a dead, white woman who sang a song she didn’t write 80 years ago because it i…

Stop tilting at windmills: Investigate Democrats

Liberty: Ballots would not change

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) are poised to implement a portion of their Naneum Ridge to Columbia River Recreation and Access plan (Naneum plan).

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This is the period when members of the herd of Democratic presidential candidates are testing various appeals to the party faithful. But the more serious contenders are also considering what attacks they might eventually employ against President Trump. The problem will com…

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether to include a question about citizenship status in the 2020 Census. Census experts have suggested that adding the question could lead to a miscount of as many as 6.5 million people, which two lower-court judges argued would result in su…

SAN DIEGO — Joe Biden is running for president — again. And it's about time.

Opinions from our readers

Ask someone in Leavenworth their opinion about the “adventure park” planned for the far west end of town and chances are good you’ll get an earful.

Is there still a silent majority? I believe there is. I frequently speak with them. However, with all of the noise coming from the far left on global warming, fake news, Green New Deal, Mueller report; on and on, it’s hard to hear the quiet voices.

Stamp Out Hunger year round: Letter carriers food drive