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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: . . . Meanwhile, gas prices soar, unemployment rises, energy independence dies, Middle East peace falters, Iran, North Korea, Russia and China resume sabre-rattling, illegal immigrants advance on the border, and our allies falter, all inspired by Potus Usurpus’ flurry of executive orders and imperial edicts, against the backdrop of a badly botched covid recovery and vaccination program. All this while our Congress amuses itself with an unconstitutional faux impeachment of private citizen Trump based entirely on lurid fantasy. T...
To The Eagle: I always look forward to reading The Eagle’s Letters to the Editor. It helps me keep a pulse on what our community is thinking about and why, regardless of the writer’s political bias. I especially enjoy the balanced, truth based opinions, regardless of how much it does or doesn’t align with my thinking. Contrasting this enjoyment are recent letters in The Eagle by a couple of consistent writers. They continue to seemingly justify their political bias and opinion by writing caustic, arguably false and usually combative narra...
To The Eagle: I’ve been a resident of Wahkiakum County since 2012, having lived in Portland, Oregon for 35 years; and I can tell you, that the county’s local government, particularly during this pandemic has been very responsive. I’ve been impressed that I and other residents can reach out to our county commissioners and in short order actually get a return phone call! And it’s reassuring when county health department folks actually answer the phone and reach out to residents to get them vaccinated. While Washington State’s overall vaccinati...
To The Eagle: Two authors of last week’s opinion letters “ Democrats and working people” and “Subjected to the big lie ” sounded like rude ten-year-olds flipping us the bird while talking trash about anyone at odds with them. Whatever happened to civil discourse? Why, Mr. Editor, do you print such rubbish instead of the informative, interesting stuff I’m sure is being sent in? Could Mr. Trump and his enablers actually have thought they wouldn’t suffer profound consequences after their attempt to sabotage a presidential election and then assa...
By Theron Hobbs, Jr. ©2021 Dictionary.com defines compassion as “a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.” The Black Panther Party was established in 1966, and their compassion for poor and hungry children would transform the way American public schools would ensure free meals for all children. This was done through the formation and implementation of their Free Breakfast for Children Program. In January of 1969, the Black Panther Party star...
To The Eagle: While researching germ transmission in 1897, German physician Carl Flugge measured how far bacteria laden spittle traveled from the mouths of volunteers. Six feet was determined to be the average. That figure remains the universal standard for adequate social distancing. In Sweden there are caution signs exhorting folks to “Please keep a distance the size of a small moose between yourselves and others.” Doctor Flugge was obsessed with hygiene. In his day there were few effective medicines to offer the sick beyond opium and qui...
To The Eagle: I would like to draw attention to our state’s current mask guidelines regarding sports. This guideline requires masks to be worn at all times with the exception of cross country who can pull theirs down after their race begins. I firmly believe we are putting our kids at a huge risk by requiring this. Per the CDC guidelines, it is also unsafe. CDC guidelines, in short, say if masks get wet or sweaty, they need replaced, they should not be worn with mouth guards and helmets, outdoors, there’s less need for them, indoors – venti...
To The Eagle: If there is anyone with a few active brain cells that thinks the presidential election was on the up and up, then I want to sell some land at the beach when the tide goes out. The leftist prolific letter writer to the editor on the Island should stop commenting about things he seemingly knows little to nothing about like God and common sense. The Democrats are at it again. How do you impeach someone from office that's not in office? Another hateful hit job by those leftist political pathological liars that proclaim their desire...
To The Eagle: The narrative now pushed by the MSM (Main stream media) that anyone questioning the transparency of the 2020 election is pushing the “big lie.” A persuasion technique used by the Nazi Party to make WWII and the Holocaust palatable to the German people. So, if you’re following this logic, folks like myself who think the 2020 election was less than transparent are, just like the Brown Shirts in fascist Germany, who torched Jewish businesses. Politicians’ and pundits’ careless use of terms “fascist” and “nazi” for anyone who disagr...
By Theron Hobbs, Jr. ©2021 There are millions of elementary and secondary classroom educators in the United States. These educators learn the techniques of teaching and get experiences in practicing how to educate others. This season of practicing is commonly known as student-teaching. Though student-teaching is a common practice in America, what’s uncommon is American people knowing that this vocational practice was created by an African-American woman named Fanny Jackson Coppin. Coppin, born in 1837 under the name Fanny Marion Jackson, ha...
To The Eagle: As most people know the school district is taking great strides to bring back sports for the students. While sports might be important how can this be more important than the students’ education and safety? The school has set up a COVID policy that is strictly enforced which includes things like cohorts to keep children separated. Sports by their very nature go against this cohort plan. If the cohorts are so important then sports can not be allowed. Also how are we starting up sports again when our students are not allowed to g...
To The Eagle: A recent letter by a local conservative reactionary raises some questions and requires some rebuttal. How have we lefties “ruined our elections?” Your answer will be more credible if it omits any mention of the thoroughly debunked charade of a stolen election. You contend that “our nation’s freedom is sorely challenged by the low intelligence of an ever increasing uneducated populace.” Your presumption that the uneducated lack intelligence is both insulting and false. Admittedly, our former paragon of presidential ignorance...
Editor's note: I've long felt that there's a tremendous lack in our educational system about the contributions of African Americans to the development of the United States. Knowing that former Puget Island resident Theron Hobbs, Jr., has written on the topic, I invited him to provide four columns for our weekly publications in February, which is observed as Black History Month. Here is his first column. Juan Garrido: A Great Explorer and Farmer By Theron Hobbs, Jr. ©2021 When many Americans think of Black History Month, they tend to see the...
To The Eagle: Who cares what President Biden does with his paycheck. So Mr. Trump donated his presidential salary of $400,000. So what. That’s a drop in the bucket. According to the New York Times, Trump raised $255.4 million in the eight weeks following the Nov. 3 election while trying to overturn the results with unfounded accusations of fraud. He’s still raking in millions from desperate chumps at his internet scam site, Stop The Steal. According to Forbes, we taxpayers have footed a $142 million bill for security and travel expenses dur...
To The Eagle: The radical left has succeeded in ruining our elections, and all of us, republicans and democrats will reap the “rewards.” The nation is sorely challenged in the coming years and with the low intelligence of an ever increasing uneducated populace, freedom and liberty will not continue. Our children and grandchildren will curse us for losing human freedom. Our constitution was divinely inspired and it is being kicked to the gutter by the thoughtless and malevolent. The left will not be satisfied until they have complete and tot...
To The Eagle: Joe said at his inauguration “My whole soul is in this, bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation and I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face: anger, resentment and hatred, extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness and hopelessness. With unity, we can do great things, important things.” So far Joe and his swamps are still trying to impeach Trump; over what? Then he signed a few executive orders: stop the construction of the border wall, revoke Trump’s an...
To The Eagle: In the past three decades the attractive brick faced storefront on Main Street now known as The Spar has housed several iterations of the restaurant business: Birnie’s Retreat, then a Bavarian restaurant, then The Hungry Hippo, then a Chinese restaurant, plus a couple of other false starts that never got off the ground. Long vacancies occurred between these tenants. Nothing was really wrong with any of these operations, except the basic fact that Cathlamet is too small a community to support very many restaurants. Stephanie V...
To The Eagle: Dear Mr. Longview PUD board of directors member. Yesterday I was checking to see what result the recent high water in the Elochoman had on the bank work done this summer. I saw you fishing and went over to say howdy and how was the fishing. Long story short we talked a bit and I started walking downstream to see how the exit area of the rebuilt channel along the far bank was working out. You followed me down there. You then got on your walkie talkie and said to the person you were talking to, “Don’t talk to him (me) you can...
To The Eagle: Georgia recounted its presidential election ballots three times before Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified that Biden had prevailed. Thereafter, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the New York Times received an audio recording of a one-hour phone call between Trump and Raffensperger. Aides of each joined in on the call. Its content has been confirmed and fact-checked by Verify. Searching for an accomplice to overturn the election results, Trump said “So look, all I want to do is t...
To The Eagle: The assault upon the seat of our government last Wednesday was an insurrection of the affluent. As key figures who invaded the Capitol have been steadily identified over the last five or six days, it’s remarkable how many had traveled from upscale zip codes. Trump’s insurgents could afford to fly in to join the rebellion. That explains a lot. It explains why the Republican Party, locked in its long downward moral spiral, lost its mind when America elected its first Black president. It explains why so many people look for con...
To The Eagle: It is troubling to see how divided we've become as a society over this past year. One half of America was trashing the Federal Courthouse in Portland six months ago because of one man's actions, and now the other half has trashed the U.S. Capitol because of one man's words. People have been killed over the mask issue. Careers, friendships, and reputations have been ruined over the election issue. Even our little community hasn't been spared the gall of divisiveness, if the war of words on these pages is anything to go by. We've...
To The Eagle: I emailed to The Longview Daily News to cancel my subscription. They replied back with the cancellation notice signed by a person with its “business card,” a circulation rep from the Mid-Valley Media Group, the Democrat Herald/Gazette-Times/Lebanon Express. No wonder, it’s a democrat newspaper and would only praise themselves but criticize the republicans, conservatives, independents and patriots with propaganda and bias. President Trump promised an orderly transition on Jan. 20. He stated: “Even though I totally disagree with th...
To The Eagle: Last week we were treated to a ponderous editorial political polemic based on the elemental journalistic principle “size matters” (18½ inches). In counterpoint, here’s a more modest factoid collection: The insurrection-style violence at the capitol was planned three weeks in advance on social media. The FBI knew about it and notified other agencies including the Capitol and D.C. Metro Police, who were nonetheless unprepared. Antifa and BLM types apparently lead the charge, and one, John Sullivan, was taped describing his Trump...
To The Eagle: I can understand why the editor has tired of political fiction. A recently published letter promoting the thoroughly disproved electoral fraud conspiracy is a prime example. Repeating over and over again that 2 + 2 = 5 will never make it so, regardless of President Trump’s hopeless arithmetic. Let’s get back to the real world now, shall we? Grace Ling Puget Island...
We lost two more this week. Subscribers, that is, upset with my choice to run articles from the Associated Press detailing the lies and deceitful statements of President Donald Trump and his supporters. We saw the results of those lies last week with the attack on Congress as both houses gathered to certify the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The nation’s Capitol was desecrated. Five people died, including a member of the Capitol Police. Senators and representatives fled or hid. The Secret Service whisked Vice-President Mike Pence t...
