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Aberdeen Museum — we will get there
As someone with a day job in the history business, I deal regularly with how the passage of…
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Museum group trying to move the needle
The public is going to get a chance to weigh-in on the future of the Aberdeen Museum of…
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USCG vessels a fine addition to Westport Maritime Museum
An important part of maritime history has made its way to Grays Harbor County with the addition of…
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Don’t normalize unruly air travel
Just as some Americans started feeling better about travel during the pandemic, airline passengers found they have another…
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Earmarks are conducive to functional government
One cause of congressional gridlock over the past decade has been the banishment of earmarks. Now, the return…
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Differing points on mandates need reason, respect
Find a high-powered microscope and take a look at COVID-19’s Delta variant. Look closely. There. See a wry…
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State should help protect Afghans who fled
The swift collapse of the Afghan government following the pullout of U.S. troops has represented a failure of…
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We can’t educate our way to racial economic equity
Last month, Senate Democrats released a $3.5 billion budget package that they hope to pass alongside a $1.2…
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Free speech carries great responbility
I am deeply concerned that Aberdeen has again garnered international notoriety, and again for the wrong reasons. I…
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North Shore Levee project a no-brainer
A pending request to get the Aberdeen City Council to commit $7 million to the North Shore Levee…
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Vaccine mandates will save lives
Gov. Jay Inslee showed important leadership by mandating COVID-19 vaccines for most state employees and hundreds of thousands…
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A tale of two Oregons
Since Gov. Kate Brown lifted COVID-19 restrictions on June 30, four Multnomah County residents have died from COVID-19…
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Humans need folklore; we’ve got D.B. Cooper
British author Diana Wynne Jones once said: “If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak…