The Yakima Herald-Republic Editorial Board brought together candidates for Yakima City Council seats to discuss a range of issues in advance of the Nov. 5 general election. The newspaper’s editorial board, which operates separately from the newsroom, developed its endorsements from these int…
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To the editor — Instead of wasting time writing childish or vicious tweets, the "Tweeter" should study the Constitution he swore to uphold!
To the editor — It was my pleasure to serve with Martha Rice on the Yakima school board. She always put the interests of students first and provided well-informed and committed leadership as p…
To the editor — It’s my understanding it sounds likely that the front-runners for Yakima City Council plan to follow and adhere to federal laws. How reassuring to hear that. I think it is no s…
To the editor — I have served on the city of Yakima Planning Commission with Patricia Byers. I have always been impressed with how well prepared and thoughtful she is about issues that come be…
To the editor — Amid talk of renaming Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day, a major annual time period honoring Native Americans is fast approaching.
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WESTERVILLE, Ohio — In the most recent Quinnipiac national poll, 90% of Democratic voters approved of the party’s impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump. So the candidates gathered here for the first debate since House Democrats officially announced an impeachment effort could not reasonably be expected to oppose it.
WASHINGTON — As Russian troops swiftly moved into U.S. bases, ordered abandoned by Donald Trump, while Turkish soldiers murdered our old allies, the Kurds, we were left asking, yet again, what hold Vladimir Putin has over the president.
WASHINGTON — “I am a classically trained engineer,” says Rep. Will Hurd, a Texas Republican, “and I firmly believe in regression to the mean.” Applying a concept from statistics to the randomness of today’s politics is problematic. In any case, Hurd, 42, is not waiting for the regression of our politics from the extreme ends of the ideological spectrum to something like temperate normality. He is leaving Congress at the end of this, his third term. And he sees portents that his blinkered…
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Our group of 20 priests, six of us from Chicago and accompanied by staff of the Catholic Extension Society, arrived in McAllen, Texas, on Sept. 16. On the Mexican side of the border, in Matamoros, we heard about an estimated 7,000 men, women and children waiting in line in 90-degree heat. Th…
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Our group of 20 priests, six of us from Chicago and accompanied by staff of the Catholic Extension Society, arrived in McAllen, Texas, on Sept. 16. On the Mexican side of the border, in Matamoros, we heard about an estimated 7,000 men, women and children waiting in line in 90-degree heat. Th…
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Traditionally, businesses that operate on a cash-only basis can be brow-raising, leading one to conclude there must be something sketchy and nefarious afoot.
Here’s another submission to the ever-growing annals we like to call Dubious Studies with Head-Scratching Results:
What could have been a calamitous situation that negatively affected lives already in upheaval was averted last week thanks to extraordinary effort by a community that once more showed it not only cares about the welfare of the less fortunate but acts to provide succor.
There often is a fine line between governmental frugality and foolishness and, unfortunately, the Trump administration has not only crossed that line but hurdled it like an Olympian when it comes to its plan to close nine of the 25 Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers, including the progr…
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.
As origin stories go, the idea for implementing specialized courts for veterans who have run afoul of the law and who need treatment, not incarceration, is as compelling as it is forward-thinking.
Whenever somebody wants to lament a prolonged, seemingly interminable, legal proceeding, they often reach way back and reference “Jarndyce v. Jarndyce,” the case in Charles Dickens’ biting satirical 1853 novel, “Bleak House.”
Cherries soon will be coming in once more, if not in the next few weeks then certainly by early July. Valley growers have enough worries — the usual workforce issues and quality-of-crop anxieties — without having to deal with the tit-for-tat trade war with China featuring that weapon of mass…