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In response to Jill Stansbury's recent letter to the editor:
The author begins by warning readers about the slippery slope fallacy, yet much of her letter relies on exactly that kind of …
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7/28/26
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Four out of nine Washington state Supreme Court Justice positions are on the Aug. 4 primary ballot.
The top two candidates for each position will advance to the November general election.
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7/28/26
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Let's review.
As a legislator, Eileen Quiring O'Brien focused on budgets, revenue, justice, health and human services, education, transportation and economic development.
Her …
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7/28/26
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I am a longtime registered independent voter. My parents instilled in my siblings and me that lying was unacceptable and results in the loss of trust in the person who lies. This was not unique to my …
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7/28/26
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If you aren’t online or at a Battle Ground City Council meeting, you may not be aware there is discord and division in town.
This is nothing new in some sense, and there will always be …
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7/28/26
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When I vote in a judicial race, I want someone who has actually done the work. That is why I am supporting Judge Dave Larson (retired) for Washington state Supreme Court, Position 5.
I have met …
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7/28/26
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During the July 20 Battle Ground City Council meeting, Mayor Eric Overholser discussed the staff time spent responding to public reaction following several controversial proclamations.
He …
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7/28/26
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When Clark County voters elected the charter form of government, it gave the power to a county manager.
Little did they know what the real life impacts that action would make on their …
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7/21/26
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez touts her influence in getting federal funds for a new Interstate 5 Interstate Bridge Replacement — IBR — across the Columbia River.
Yet, the IBR …
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7/21/26
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The Slippery Slope is a category of logical fallacy where one starts with a small fact and jumps to an exaggerated long-term consequence.
For example, we have heard people claim that …
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7/14/26
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It's not what we have accomplished in the last 250 years. It's how we are going to keep it going.
It will not happen by tearing it down. Rather, building on the far greater good that is …
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7/7/26
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I was saddened to see the small town of Yacolt community, which professes to be patriotic, show such hate towards someone they don’t even know.
I lived in Yacolt for over 20 years, …
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7/7/26
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Switzerland is one of the world’s oldest surviving republics. When the Catholic and protestant cantons fought during the 26-day Sonderbund Civil War of 1847, 86 people were killed.
As …
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7/7/26
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One of my most precious memories is of going with my parents to the local polling place to cast their votes.
Sometimes this was at the high school in Battle Ground and sometimes at the …
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7/7/26
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Dear Port of Ridgefield commissioners,
I realize that you are in a difficult position. Do you authorize a plan that seemed right a few years back, or change direction? The Ridgefield Waterfront …
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6/23/26
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If I were a betting man, I’d say that everyone reading this letter, at one point or another, has wandered past a couple of young, motivated entrepreneurs on the sidewalk in front of their house or …
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6/23/26
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A year ago, Southwest Washington should have been celebrating the opening of the Brockmann Campus, a state-of-the-art mental health treatment facility north of WSU Vancouver. Instead, the $42 million …
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6/16/26
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Dear editor,
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing dangerous rollbacks to coal ash protections that would endanger the health of communities across the country. Coal ash, the toxic …
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6/16/26
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez already voted to raise our federal taxes, so now I want to know: as a Washingtonian, what does she think of all the new taxes coming out of Olympia?
She’s …
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6/16/26
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The letter from Simon Turner (June 3, “Stop the Slide”) brilliantly used the words of our founding fathers to disprove the myth that the U.S. was created as Christian nation.
It was not just …
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6/16/26
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