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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: Democracy survives. Thank you Americans, who came out to vote, denying election deniers a political post. Most of us realized the importance of the election and our future as a democracy. I am also thankful the political ads are done. While the House, Senate, and presidency were in control by Democrats, the infrastructure bill was finally addressed, as promised by former presidents. The CHIPS bill, to get some independence from foreign sources. Veterans care. Signed the most significant gun violence prevention legislation in nearl...
To The Eagle: I am honored by the Wahkiakum County residents who put their trust in me for another four years. Each morning as I put on the badge as your sheriff, I ask God to show me the way, to do right by those we serve, to keep our county safe to the best of our ability, and for all of our people to go home safe at the end of their shifts. Being your sheriff is a demanding job, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. Public service has always been the core of who I am. Thank you for supporting me once again, so that I may lead a sheriff's...
To The Eagle: That fellow who wrote in from Oregon burned through 160 words with multiple decimal points and percentages to state the glaringly obvious. Some, but definitely not all, of our present economic woes are due to some of Biden’s expensive policies enacted to help us recover from the pandemic that trashed everyone’s economies. At the height of that pandemic, when effective public health measures were ludicrously protested against as civil rights issues, Texas’ Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested that “at risk” populatio...
To The Eagle: As of Sunday night Wahkiakum County has the fourth highest voter turnout of the 39 counties at 86.72%. We need to take pride in our turnout and work to get the other 13% of voters next election. Good job Wahkiakum, I have offered my congratulations to my opponent for district 3 commissioner, and thank everyone for exercising their hard won right to vote. We shall see what the future brings. I must say I am pleased and surprised that there have been no cries of stolen elections or lawsuits being filed. We must have come a long way...
To The Eagle: Thank you for your support and turning out to vote in this past election. I appreciate your support and encouragement and look forward to serving you for another term. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. Also, I will be having a coffee and cake thank you at the Rosburg Hall on Sunday November 20, from 2-4 p.m. I look forward to seeing you there. Again, thank you. Gene Strong Rosburg...
To The Eagle: Washington State has been a Democratic regime since 1985. I regard today’s legislators as tax hungry thugs; take for example vehicle tabs. Twice it was on the ballot a $30 vehicle tabs only; it passed both times, in 2002 and 2019. Once again, after paying $30 the first year, they disrespected our votes and resumed adding taxes/fees the following year. To this day, they continue to add taxes, fees and regulations to the point that American business people cannot prosper. Is that what we hired these thugs for? For them to sit on t...
From the National Office of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Edited and Submitted by Wahkiakum VFW Post 5297 Tomorrow, we honor every man and woman who has proudly worn the uniform and bravely defended our nation while protecting its people from the evils of this world. Every American, no matter where they live or what they do, reaps the benefits of their service. Tomorrow is a special day … it is, in fact, a remarkable day. As veterans of foreign wars and as members of an organization whose primary mission is to serve those who have served, we und...
To The Eagle: Our few weeks’ respite of JB Bouchard’s rantings ended last week with his typical attack on Republicans. He continues to position himself and Democrats as exclusive to valuing facts, reason and decency. Here are some facts that Mr Bouchard consistently omits. Inflation was 1.4% when President Biden took office, it was 7.9% in February, 2022. That was before Putin invaded Ukraine. It’s running 8.2% currently. The vast majority of inflation happened due to Biden policies, not Putin. The math ie “facts” are that the 6.5% inflation...
To The Eagle: So, a recent contributor “wants the truth” heard about Jan 6th. Good luck with that. Trump’s closest allies, whom he presidentially pardoned after their convictions for election related crimes, have “pled the 5th” against self incrimination while under oath to the Jan 6th investigation. Trump’s legal team, paid for by your “Save America” contributions, has surely warned him that lying while under oath to the Jan. 6th investigators would be a crime -- perjury. That must be a bit of a conundrum for the Biggest Liar in the nation....
To The Eagle: Two Tuesdays ago, deadline day for The Eagle, I got a call from a friend with much wailing and gnashing of teeth. The Eagle had rejected his letter for being too close to the election, he said, and pointed out that election day was still two and a half weeks away. Checked my email and saw that they had rejected mine, too, and sent a note reiterating my friend’s criticism. And lo! They relented and published our letters. The next Tuesday was, in fact, “the week before the election” referred to in The Eagle’s letter policy, and yet...
To The Eagle: A contributor helpfully illustrated last week how Republicans distort issues to inflame conservative voters. Take a look behind his insinuations about: “Ongoing deterioration of our military?” Our professional armed forces are second to none. He thinks training soldiers to fight both enemies in the field and racial and gender discrimination within their own ranks, causes martial weakness. It doesn’t. It promotes moral strength. “Erasure of our national borders?” Factually, more immigrants enter the U.S. legally than not. That...
To The Eagle: A front page headline was shown recently in The Eagle “Jan 6 panel subpoenas Trump, shows startling new video.” I haven’t seen it but can only guess what startling new video they came up with and edited it for their narrative. Trump and many of his closest allies that the Jan 6 Committee subpoenaed would have appeared before them but they will not behind closed doors. They will with doors wide open and with all the TV stations there ABC, OAN, CNN, NBC, Newsmax, CBS for the simple reason because when filming live they cannot edit....
The election is coming, but not as fast as we thought at The Eagle. We have a policy of not printing campaign endorsement or similar letters in the last edition before an election, for a candidate who is attacked wouldn’t have a chance to respond. Thinking the election was coming sooner than it is, we told letter writers we wouldn’t run campaign letters this week. When one pointed out our error Wednesday morning, we decided to run the letters. As you can see, there are many, and because space is tight, we’ve cropped some of the extra...
To The Eagle: If you need help with providing Christmas gifts for your children up through the age of 17, please fill out an application or contact our Star Program phone at 360-431-5232. All calls and applications will be handled discreetly. This is a needs-based program. On Monday, October 31, you may pick up applications either at The Bank of the Pacific in the Star Program mail box in the foyer or Health and Human Services on Elochoman Valley Road. They must be returned to where you picked them up no later than November 22. Stars will be...
To The Eagle: Joe Kent would be a disaster and an embarrassment to Washington. He is a Trump wannabe who believes the much debunked big lie. He is a white nationalist who associates with Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. He says Jan 6 was just a single day incident and wants the participants pardoned. He wants to defund the police and the FBI. He would set women's rights back more than a century. He is so ignorant of the laws that he claims he himself will impeach the president in a single day. We don't need any more militant, know-nothing,...
To The Eagle: MAGA zealots still believing the 2020 election was stolen from former President Trump have crafted a plan that, in their telling, will thwart ‘cheating’ in this year’s midterm elections. Their strategy? For voters who receive a mailed ballot- hold onto it and hand it in at a polling place or election office on Nov. 8 at the last minute. The plan is based on unfounded conspiracy theories that voting systems will be manipulated to rig results for Democrats once they have seen how many Republican votes have been returned early...
To The Eagle: Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. Importantly, voting and accepting the outcome, as voted by all. Right now, we are facing many election deniers; Kent is one of them, supported by denier in-chief, who has pushed the Big Lie for years, leading up to now. Many reasons beyond Democracy to vote, but without democracy, it will be meaningless. . . . Whomever you choose to vote for, should be a believer in DEMOCRACY and the...
To The Eagle: I urge the citizens of Wahkiakum County to vote for Holly McKean for prosecutor. I worked for the City of Port Townsend's City Attorney Office when Holly joined the office. In fact, I was one of her tutors as she completed the APR 6 program You may not be familiar with the program, but as someone who both graduated from law school and has now tutored two law clerks as they study the law, I can assure you that the law clerk program is a vigorous legal education that more than prepares someone to practice law. Law school teaches a s...
To The Eagle: First, I am not enamored with either the Democratic or the Republican party. Corruption and incompetence are rampant on both sides of the aisle. However, Trump and Trump sycophants (?psychophants? – my word) have dragged the once respectable political party into the mire. How could our proud republic allow itself to be presented to other nations by a vulgar, uncultured, loud-mouthed, racist, misogynist buffoon - and consider to do so again? Has any previous president been laughed at during a meeting of the United Nations, been s...
To The Eagle: . . . Wahkiakum County ranks high among the most peaceful, successful, and secure counties in the nation despite being in a state that routinely ranks among the worst. Some of this is no doubt due to the fact that we are a small rural county, but I attribute much of our recent success to the quiet, competent leadership of three people in particular: Commissioner Dan Cothren, Sheriff Mark Howie, and Prosecutor Dan Bigelow. One of them, Bigelow is running for re-election this year and the upcoming midterm election is our first...
To The Eagle: Things to ask yourself before you vote democrat are worth asking. Will you vote for the ongoing deterioration of our military?, the decline of our standard of living?, the erasure of our national border?, or the basic moral and civil code? Will you support kicking parents out of their say in their kids’ education?, or the sterilization of minors with government gender bending? Do you support abortion up to the moment of birth?, the destruction of US industry?, the demonization of half or more of our population?, or herding p...
To The Eagle: Southwest Washington's District Three has a long history of representation in Congress by men and women of both parties, most of whom have held our rural interests first in mind, and have represented us well. Now we have a choice before us—the choice of an ideologue from the radical right who wouldn't know Wahkiakum County from Timbuktu, versus a working person's rural Democrat who actually lives in the country, labors for a living, and, as one of us, will represent all of us. If you think Joe Kent will give our concerns the same...
To The Eagle: I was very disappointed to hear that our Prosecuting Attorney, Dan Bigelow, refused an offer to debate his challenger for office, Holly McKeen. Disappointed, but not surprised. You see, I have seen Dan in action in the courtroom. Some years back I was called to be in the jury pool for a criminal case Dan was prosecuting. During the screening process, Dan asked me a question that I felt was insulting. It implied that if I were being asked some difficult or embarrassing questions that my first reaction would be to respond with...
To The Eagle: I am voting for Julie Anderson for Secretary of State. Anderson has been Pierce County's nonpartisan auditor for 12 years. She has the experience to run elections and serve the other duties of Secretary of State. Washington ballots allow candidates to describe their party preference or send other cues to voters. Anderson is stating the nonpartisan ethic on the ballot — pick the person and not the party for the highest election official in Washington State. Vote Julie Anderson. Krist Novoselic, Deep River...
To The Eagle: I am writing to share my experience with Dan Bigelow, Wahkiakum County prosecutor. I’ve appreciated the opportunity to work on a variety of projects in our county in my last 17 years living and working here. These are often with state agencies and contractors as partners on grants with multiple deliverables. Dan, in his role as prosecutor, reviews contracts and agreements to ensure Wahkiakum County is protected, and that contracting processes are done correctly. With grant projects usually having tight timelines, this is no s...
