There are two parts to the story about CEO pay in 2018.
The East Wenatchee Police Department was wrong to not make public a murder-homicide that took place in the city about a month ago.
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Washington state is one of the few states that does not have an income tax. And the state's voters have made clear — 10 times — they don't want an income tax.
The United Way of Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan counties is in serious financial distress.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
The 18-day voting period for the Aug. 6 Primary Election starts on Friday. In addition, Washington state is rolling out — and essentially testing — a new $9.5 million statewide elections system known as VoteWa.
One of the marvels of the race to the moon in the 1960s were the Apollo spacesuits — blazing, iconic white on the outside and composed of 21 layers of nested fabric. Imagine putting on that many T-shirts and trying to do anything.
I started carrying a man bag when my fanny fell off and the wallet in my back pocket got stuck at the checkout stand. It took me forever to dig it out.
Earlier this year, after two 737 MAX crashes killed 346 souls and led to a worldwide grounding of the important airplane, Boeing disclosed that Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg had in 2018 been awarded annual compensation of $23.4 million, up from $18.5 million a year earlier.
It’s been a goat-heavy week in state news.
A1 article on gays shamefully wrong
The Wenatchee Sportsmen’s Association is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year and will be honored as the volunteer organization of the year by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife today in Ephrata.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Census: Ask the question
What does a herd of 300 goats contained to an acre look like?
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
Josiah Garcia, 10, Wenatchee, looks out toward the forests surrounding the Mission Ridge lodge before sketching a water color during an After School Expanded Learning Program field trip from Lincoln Elementary School Wednesday, July 10, 2019. The 25 children on the trip had just completed the Migrant Summer School session. They started the day with a hike toward Lake Clara. The week-long session concludes Thursday with a cooking lesson at the Pybus Market kitchen.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
I’m certain it is too late to change, but I’d like to say that I think it would have been safer and smarter and generally better for all if Hale Dog Park and the being-constructed skate park had been separated by the parking lot.
Cala Flamond
Editorial assistant
There are a couple of times every year when I think I need to use extreme cropping to save an important image.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
It never really bothered me that Colin Kaepernick went to his knees during the national anthem. I’m a 49er football fan and I didn’t care what Kaepernick did before games, so long as he threw touchdowns.
When faced with two women who each claimed to be the mother of the same child, King Solomon announced that he would slice the child in two and give half to each claimant.
My husband watched as I tossed a Real Simple magazine and three paperback mysteries into the canvas tote, which already held a ridiculous floppy hat, a fabulous pair of earrings, a blow-dryer, a bottle of gin, four limes and an industrial-sized bag of tortilla chips.
Population growth is the real environmental threat
Planned Parenthood protesters are bullies, not heroes
This scenario happens in every organization: They host a meeting or an event or attend a trade show. Afterward, they each address the question, “How did it go?”
Thousands of professional salaried employees in Washington state could be converted into hourly workers if a new proposal from the state Department of Labor and Industries goes into effect.
Everywhere we look, technology is at our fingertips.
In one of her final appearances before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen concluded her testimony by saying that no sane nation would ever devise an immigration system as dysfunctional as that of the United States.
A new wave of public outcry is cresting in our national discourse right now over the treatment of immigrants at the southern border.
Last week’s Supreme Court decision was a victory for anyone who doesn’t want some government agency in charge of morality.
Chicago Tribune
By The (Annapolis, Md.) Capital
We are approaching the hottest part of the summer in the Wenatchee Valley and this creates a serious problem for those who are homeless and either won’t or are not allowed to access the valley’s restrictive homeless shelters.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Two crimes — but the same sentence
Park developers: Move your families next to your project
Cala Flamond
Editorial assistant
Participation in 2020 Census is important
SEATTLE — Fresh evidence arrives almost daily to prove that the obituary for Seattle is quite premature.
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Editorial Board
We learned that the nuns from St. Joseph’s Church were leaving Wenatchee and heading out of state in the beginning of July. I had done a photo story on them some years ago, so I wasn’t sure how to approach photographs for this story.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
The Horan Natural Area (HNA) provides valuable bird and wildlife habitat on the Wenatchee River delta. Situated within the City of Wenatchee, the area supports a wide range of recreational uses while connecting parks to the north and south. The North Central Washington Audubon Society (NCWAS…
Not everything you read and view is true
Yes, Trump is a very different kind of president
In these days of whirlwind, vertigo-inducing news cycles, one can be excused for failing to peruse a 13-page policy memo released last week by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget that, on its penultimate page, shows just how little the Trump administration cares about its feder…
Publisher Jeff Ackerman writes about shortcomings in Chelan County's jail documented in two reports last week by Reporter Tony Buhr. "Tony’s visit — and eight months of research — discovered a host of problems that make the county jail a very horrible place to be under any circumstance," Ackerman writes. "The purpose of Tony’s story was to bring the issue out of hiding and into our homes."
With C-Tran purchasing new buses and with Gov. Jay Inslee tooling around Tacoma, Washington is increasingly going electric.
Time for civics lessons
It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump is trying to eviscerate the Obama-era Clean Energy Plan with a completely inadequate substitute that has far lower targets for reducing carbon emissions from the power sector. Trump has been trying to undo as much of his predecessor’s legacy as possible.
The newspaper received an email from a friend of Karlyn Mitchell’s telling us about Mitchell’s upcoming attempt at hiking up Saddle Rock on the one-year anniversary of her coming down with a paralyzing illness to her spine.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
One of the remarkable community collaborations in the region involves the work of Wenatchee Valley TREAD, an organization for motorized and non-motorized recreation development in Chelan and Douglas counties.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
There are few places and occasions where I have to continually ask permission to photograph subjects. One place is a hospital where regulations require written permission from any patient that can be recognized in a photograph I hope to publish. Another one is a jail.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
