The oppressive gray blanket that covered the Yakima Valley lifted just enough Saturday to offer hope.
Throughout this year, I’ve been amazed and encouraged by the strength, courage, and compassion of my patients and their families, as well as my colleagues in health care, as we’ve united to all do our part to slow the spread of COVID-19. Wearing masks, socially distancing when possible, prac…
September is National Suicide Prevention Month — an opportunity to call attention to this serious public health concern. According to the CDC, 1 in 4 adults between ages 18 and 24 has considered suicide in the past month. Suicide is the 10th-leading cause of death in the United States, the s…
No one enjoys restrictions on their lives or businesses. Just like no one likes to get sick. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us as individuals and communities in terms of what we find acceptable. And problems arise when the restrictions drag on for months and months, seemingly with litt…
As a former Selah councilman, attorney and veteran, I am discouraged to see the council sit silently while one man’s political opinions dictate how the city responds to peaceful protests.
To the editor — I worked with Jeff Swan for over seven years and he was one of the most knowledgeable and skilled lawyers I knew. Personally, he was kind and very helpful to us younger attorne…
To the editor — I am a former California state policeman and former Wapato chief of police. I met Vicki Baker through my wife and Habitat for Humanity. Baker has done an incredible job as coun…
To the editor — I am writing about hysterectomies allegedly going on in detainment centers at the border. They seem to be trying to make claims that are seriously in doubt of anyone ever takin…
To the editor — Recently, my wife and I watched "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy." The set for each of these shows had been modified to provide social distancing. The shows were not canceled, …
To the editor — I am filled with a sense of dread and doom, worrying about the future of our community and nation.
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WASHINGTON — When this presidential campaign began, the economy was supposed to be President Donald Trump’s strongest selling point — even after the coronavirus threw the nation into recession.
SAN DIEGO — It’s not good news when you have an issue that is so explosive that it divides people who might normally be considered like-minded simpaticos.
With the presidential campaign heading into the home stretch, President Donald Trump will surely try to tout his record on economic issues. But the numbers don't speak well of his policies. Unfortunately, the approach of his rival, Joe Biden, threatens to make some of the same mistakes.
WASHINGTON — To the ancient Greeks, hubris was the crime of arrogance — an offense against common decency and an insult to the gods.
‘I fear three newspapers more than 100,000 bayonets,” Napoleon once said, and today you’ve got President Donald Trump with reason to fear Atlantic magazine, 1,331 daily newspapers, 1,761 TV stations, 15,530 radio stations, 1.73 billion daily users of Facebook and 149 million daily users of Twitter more than he fears Joe Biden.
The oppressive gray blanket that covered the Yakima Valley lifted just enough Saturday to offer hope.
Throughout this year, I’ve been amazed and encouraged by the strength, courage, and compassion of my patients and their families, as well as my colleagues in health care, as we’ve united to all do our part to slow the spread of COVID-19. Wearing masks, socially distancing when possible, prac…
September is National Suicide Prevention Month — an opportunity to call attention to this serious public health concern. According to the CDC, 1 in 4 adults between ages 18 and 24 has considered suicide in the past month. Suicide is the 10th-leading cause of death in the United States, the s…
Our future is us vs. us. COVID-19 is not the problem; we are.
I saw someone tell a man today online that he was worthless, all because he didn’t feel he should have to wear a mask. How dehumanizing is that? I read a letter written by a cop who had been told by protesters to put his gun in his mouth and pull the trigger. I see people called sheep becaus…
The Yakima County Commission does not reflect the diversity of our views and our communities. Latinos and Native Americans make up about half of the population of Yakima County, and yet only one candidate that looks like us or has experienced similar life challenges has ever been elected to …
The Yakima River Canyon is the most beautiful place on Earth.
Imagine living in a home without a computer. Or access to broadband internet. Imagine your family’s only connection to the internet is a smartphone with a data plan that is prohibitively expensive. Now imagine your kids — both of them —need to get their education through that smartphone. But…
The high rate of COVID-19 infections among the Latino population in Yakima County didn’t take me by surprise. Knowing well that poor dissemination of news in Spanish still exists, it was just a matter of time before we would see the adverse effects on our community.
This is the time right now when young people from every grade level in our local schools would be going through all the rites of passage that are familiar to us in concluding the latest cycle of a school year. We all know June as the time when students are gathering in classrooms for those l…
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