Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: I've had the privilege to work alongside Dan Bigelow as Assistant Victim/Witness Coordinator in his office for many years during my 10 year residency in Wahkiakum County before I moved to Indiana to be with family. Dan is truly honorable because of his fairness, high standard of ethics, caring, and commitment to your community and public safety. He has the experience, education, and skills to serve as prosecutor, coroner and EMT responder. His door is always open to anyone that wants to talk. I know that everything I have written...
To The Eagle: I’ve heard lots of people complain about and blame the Biden administration on our current inflation situation. The most recent example was Mr. Schreiber’s Eagle article last week about the price of gas. Gasoline, Natural gas, Brent Crude and West Texas Crude are all commodities that are traded on worldwide markets. These commodity “contracts” are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange by thousands of international players, both buyers and sellers. To assume an American President, whether Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, etc., c...
To The Eagle: The Republican party censured Jaime Herrera Beutler in 2021 because she stood up against Donald Trump and supported our Constitution and democracy. Congresswoman Herrera Beutler worked very hard for the constituents of the third congressional district. She worked well with our Senators, who are Democrats. She worked for all of us, even those of us who did not vote for her. This is how mature, smart elected officials do their jobs. We now have a choice in November. If you want to continue this type of representation in Congress,...
To The Eagle: MAGA-man wrote an evocative letter last week, spoke his truth eloquently, but degenerated into Republican-speak about how “Democrats didn't (even) wait until after the election to stick it to us with $5.69 a gallon gas”- an issue perennial as crab grass and election cycles. Inflation at the pumps, supermarkets, and anywhere else consumers are feeling the burn, is the fault of industry -- not the fault of the customers buying their goods, or of the administration currently in power. Corporations have the power to raise prices wit...
To The Eagle: Calling all Conservatives. The real ones. Not the phonies. Ones whose cornerstone values are the Constitution, the rule of law, and institutions that make those possible. When are you going to take your party back? Yes, you who used to call yourselves Republican before your brothers and sisters swallowed the Kool-Aid of Putin’s puppet. And you, who still hold onto the Republican label, just because you have no place else to go. A political party without a moral core grounded in reality, not self-delusion, eventually s...
To The Eagle: Steve Bannon (Trump’s pardoned chief strategist) helped get Mussolini’s party back in power, 70 years after he was hung upside down. Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party, along with Hungary's autocratic leader tells U.S. conservatives to join his culture war, at CPAC. Ted Cruz calls CPAC crowd "dangerous radicals" to raucous applause, obviously in ‘jest’ for fodder. After winking at QAnon for years, Donald Trump is overtly embracing the baseless conspiracy theory, even as the number of frightening real-world events linked...
To The Eagle: I am MAGA and proud of it. What does that mean? Well let’s have a look. First I believe our children should be educated and not indoctrinated in school. I believe our borders must be secured so we can allow those in that can obey our immigration laws by filing properly for entrance and prove that once here they will not become a burden on hard working Americans. I believe criminals should be treated like criminals and not better than their victims as many Democrat lefties seem to have forgotten. Our streets must be safe and the c...
To The Eagle: One of the ‘side effects’ of keeping an open mind is that scammers, shifty politicians and other professional liars keep trying to toss their trash into it. They depend upon people believing just about anything. Consider these few examples. 1- Critical Race Theory (CRT): Dishonest political opportunists push two lies about this. First, that CRT is all about White people being oppressors while Black people remain oppressed victims. The other lie is that CRT, a university level subject matter, is being taught to children in gra...
To The Eagle: Since the police department doesn’t usually enforce parking in Cathlamet, will they have to start when we are limited to two hours? Or is this another idle threat? Maybe we could hire a meter maid. Michael Nunes Cathlamet...
To The Eagle: I am not interested in opinions, mine or other people’s. I am more interested in truth and facts. I have found in living 78 years that truth is not always easy to accept and harder to live. Seems to me there are two power sources of information and truth. The positive or negative which seems to govern lives either toward good or evil. I have spent way too much of my life in the negative, even after I read what Jesus taught about truth. He heard the voice of His Father God and taught us truth. Or we can turn toward deceptions w...
To The Eagle: I’ve been chastised for “name calling” after supporting President Biden’s statement that while not all MAGA supporters are fascists, the movement’s ideology certainly leans that way. MAGA , like fascism, scorns liberalism’s emphasis on reason, the rule of law, individual autonomy, and pluralistic representative democracy. Fascism is typically rooted in the cult of a “supreme leader.” MAGA both worships and fears its swaggering paragon. Fascism’s most extreme expression were the Nazis. My late father, a 100% disabled vet, fou...
To The Eagle: As summer draws to a close, we want to publicly thank the amazing staff at the Julia Butler Hansen Swimming Pool. The youngest generation of Neilson children had the great fortune to practice ice cream scoop arms, beaver dives, frog kicks and starfish floats under the skilled and watchful eyes of the Cathlamet swim coaches and lifeguards. The kids adored their joyful and kind approach while the grown-ups appreciated the life-saving water skills they imparted. We watched from the same bleachers where Dave and Laverne once cheered...
To The Eagle: It seems there is a lot of conversation about inflation lately. Maybe we can illustrate what it means locally by using the assessor’s figures for property taxes applied to 100 foot waterfront lots. We will begin with a 100 foot lot from 1969 being valued at $250. I myself have a 100 foot waterfront lot assessed just a few days ago at $211,000 rounded off for easy arithmetic (my kind of arithmetic). If someone in 1969 had $211,000 to buy 100 foot waterfront lots he would have 844 of these lots which would amount to 15.98 miles o...
To The Eagle: A PhD. asked “how science communicators might restore public trust?” Answer is simple, logical and ignored by medical administrators, vaccine manufacturers, politicians and media. All science communicators must tell the truth, the whole truth and be 100% honest about the science from all research and study findings worldwide. When “science communicators” pick and choose which science to embrace, and which science to ignore and then try to silence it; that destroys any public trust. In science, to avoid prejudiced pseudo-...
To The Eagle: Wake up people of USA--voters and a recent writer: Seems there are too many following information from social networks, not bothering with a little research, which is so readily available to us all. Seems some still don’t think covid was real. [Former President Trump] 45 has endorsed some candidates who deny democracy. The 2020 election was a great message from voters. Sadly, many from the losing side are now not believing in democracy and the vote. The counting and recounting, even with 45’s special ninjas, found no fraud against...
To The Eagle: I use to think Republicans and Democrats shared common values that ran deeper than party affiliation. And although I am a Democrat, I admit to having voted Republican when the GOP candidate was the better choice. However, I’ve noted the change in the GOP these last 10-years and realize that our values are very different. Ten years ago I saw Tea Party Republicans holding signs that portrayed president Obama as a monkey and heard their talk of revolution. I ignored those Republicans back then, believing they did not represent the v...
To The Eagle: A question we often hear is: " I don't like more taxes, but since this is not a property tax, and since rebuilding our emergency radio system is vital, I am for it. How do we really know the money won't be siphoned off to pay for something else?" The short answer has two parts: 1) State law says it can't be used for anything else: RCW 82.14.420. Look it up. 2) the county prosecuting attorney is required to verify the correct use of any money spent from this, and to sign his name to it. If you have any other questions on the...
To The Eagle: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . .” Therein is guaranteed religious tolerance in our open, secular society. Religion is to be tolerated, within limits. Those limits have been exceeded. Religion’s “free exercise thereof” has abused the limits of reasonable people’s tolerance in this fraught era now endangered by a Supreme Court that factors religious dogma into its decisions. Once a legal system is subservient to such dogma, an open society faces extin...
To The Eagle: Dear Sir, I was under the impression that you, the Editor, would no longer print letters full of misinformation. When I read last week’s letter from Mr. Bouchard I had to assume you were on vacation and out of the office for that letter to get published. The letter was full of so much misinformation I found it hard to accept even a Liberal could believe that bunch of baloney, or should I say malarkey, like the term President Biden often uses. President Trump did more for this country in his four years in office than Biden in h...
To The Eagle: I loved reading Dr. Ben Carson’s comment regarding Covid-19: "Interestingly enough, when you think about the beginnings of our country, people came here so that they could be free, so that they wouldn't have the government's foot on their neck, mandating what they could and could not do. This covid situation has been the best mechanism government has had for controlling the people ever and they're very reluctant to let it go." What a true statement. This is the time to ask yourself who really are the insurrectionists? If you w...
To The Eagle: Joe Biden knew what a thankless task his presidency would be, yet he stepped up and firmly grasped that nettle, instead of retiring from a lifetime of federal politics. During his long public service, he learned. He evolved through personal acumen, with compassion, and innate decency. He responded to his party’s call to oppose an authoritarian presidential bully who was ultimately defeated by voter’s hopes that Biden could restore that decency to the leadership of this nation. Ending the fruitless 20 year crusade against Afghanist...
To The Eagle: The fate of free and fair elections in the United States hangs in the balance in this November’s midterm contests. In races for those offices with authority over US elections, Republicans have nominated anti-democracy candidates who have embraced or echoed Donald Trump’s myth of a stolen election in 2020. In the once-sleepy down-ballot contests for secretary of state, Trump loyalists are targeting positions that will play a critical role in supervising the next presidential election, with intent to turn the secretary of state con...
To The Eagle: Censorship is still alive and well on the editorial pages of The Wahkiakum County Eagle. The following comments are in regard to your Letter to the Editor policy changes published in the July 14th edition. Yes, as publisher and editor of the WCE, I agree you have full control of what you permit to be printed. But who decides what is “disinformation?” History has shown us many times that what is considered disinformation or conspiracy theory by individuals and institutions in their day, when explored by historians and other inv...
To The Eagle: Once again with the FBI’s raid on Mar-A-Lago, the Democrats and Liberals, even some of the Republicans are like two year olds with temper tantrums; they just keep whining. What appalls me the most besides the continuous harassment on Donald Trump and us; they are using our money for their own political agenda; billions and trillions of our money to Ukraine and other foreign affairs, hiring 87,000 armed IRS agents (why?) and the list goes on, nothing beneficial for America but to use us as slaves. As a parent, when you have a c...
To The Eagle: Joe Biden wants to hire 86,852 new IRS agents; that would more than double the amount of IRS agents we now pay to come after our money. Let’s put that in perspective: Eighty six thousand eight hundred fifty two is nearly two and a half times the population of Longview. You could not put 86,852 IRS agents all in the ATT stadium. They would overflow the Seahawks Lumen Field by 18,112. Eighty six thousand eight hundred fifty two IRS agents would be more than the entire personnel on all 11 U.S. aircraft carriers. These IRS agents w...
