The state Legislature will have more on its plate than COVID-19 in the next 100 days or so.
If I denounce somebody as a jerk in the privacy of my fireside no one is likely bothered. If I go on the radio and denounce the fire…
The sooner COVID-19 vaccines can be distributed — and put into arms — the better it will be for all. Vaccination is critical to achi…
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The continued lockdown is not working. Why are we still reporting more positive cases when everyone is locked down at home? Continui…
I always enjoy reading letters from Jerry Votendahl, they’re always so consistently one-sided and with interesting numbers. For exam…
“You can pay me now or pay me later.”
As the state Legislature convened in Olympia (and on Zoom) Monday — with the critical task of approving a two-year state budget topp…
“Really sad. At a time of deep national division, President-elect Biden’s choice to call his political opponents literal Nazis does …
This letter is in response to an article in the Jan. 6 edition of the U-B. County Commissioner Greg Tompkins received an email reque…
Last week 14 passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., to Seattle refused to wear masks to protect others from …
What is going on with the Walla Walla County commissioners?
Jerry Votendahl’s letter “Biden will be President…” (Jan. 4) got me wondering. So, I read the radical-right Grassfire article “Top 1…
The Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, reads in part: “No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress ... who, having prev…
In a way we owe a vote of thanks to those who voted to put Donald J. Trump in office. Now we all truly know the consequence of elect…
Gov. Jay Inslee’s decision to lump Walla Walla and Columbia counties with Benton, Franklin, Yakima and Kittitas counties in the Sout…
I’m quite disappointed (although not surprised) that U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers engaged in political theatrics, and originally …
While the unprecedented violence in Washington, D.C., that was instigated by President Trump is inexcusable and shocking, the utter …
U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers has violated her oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America. She has actively …
So the “law and order president” has now incited treasonous rioters to attack our sacred government in addition to our democratic sy…
After seeing that the local elected officials are going to support changing the governor’s executive power, I believe these people n…
I am a fairly new resident of Walla Walla, arriving in 2017 to manage a nonprofit organization in neighboring Milton-Freewater. As a…
When the state Legislature goes into session Monday in Olympia the echoes off the marble walls of the Capitol will be missing — and …
I was surprised to read the letter to the editor of Jan. 4 from Jerry Votendahl asserting fraud in the presidential election, citing…
Some Republicans in Congress — including 5th Congressional District Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers – dishonored themselves and, worse, …
In a letter to the editor on Monday, Jerry Votendahl listed many reasons why 2020 was “the most fraudulent election ever perpetrated…
Our affordable housing problem is complicated, but essentially it boils down to this: More and more people cannot afford to live in …
Our collective history is something that must be preserved so new generations can fully understand the foundation their lives were b…
I read the Washington Post article, “Anxious election provides civics lesson,” on page D5 in the U-B Perspective section on Sunday.
Now that a new decade is underway, and the 2020 Census is complete, the process of redrawing congressional and legislative boundarie…
It’s time to have meaningful dialogue about the need for affordable housing in our community.
