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Letter: Treatment program started by nun helping addicts
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Letter: Food stamp program helps the hungry and Mid-Columbia's farmers
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Letter: Sexual diversity in nature not really comparable to human homosexuality
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Letter: Various developments reveal shift in U.S. culture
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Letter: Read 'More Guns, Less Crime' to be informed
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Letter: Read 'More Guns, Less Crime' to be informed
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McClatchy cartoons for the week of 5/19/13
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Our Voice: Pasco off to good start on three STEM elementary schools
Parents ought to be encouraged by the Pasco School Board's bold plan to build not only new school buildings but also new ways of teaching their children.
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Our Voice: Mid-Columbia LitFest celebrates three Northwest authors this week opens today in Richland
It's prime time for book lovers in the Tri-Cities.
Opinion
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NATIONAL OPINIONS
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Why Mark Carson matters
Mark Carson was shot in the face because he's gay.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter: Revisions of talking points on Benghazi attack aimed at protecting political elites
The recent revelations of ever-changing "talking points" employed by the White House to explain the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of four American officials are disturbing.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter: Focus on Benghazi shows congressional leaders are clueless
This letter concerns the House and Senate spending so much time arguing over the Benghazi embassy attack on Sept. 11, 2012.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter: Mexico's drug war deserves more media attention
Regarding the recent editorial cartoon focusing on 70,000 people killed in Syria.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter: Sitting on city council and regional PFD seems like a conflict of interest
Does anyone else see the potential conflict of interest posed when Pasco Mayor Matt Watkins is also the president of the Tri-Cities Regional Public Facilities District?
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter: Arlene's Flowers appears to put one principle ahead of another
Supporters of Baronelle Stutzman, the owner of Arlene's Flowers, portray her refusal to supply flowers to a gay wedding as being a matter of principle.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter: Something smells bad during Sunday walk in Richland
I walked to church recently. It was a nice day. In the past, I have noticed the dominant aroma of Richland around this time of year to be one of the following: Tobacco smoke (that was a long time ago); tree pollens and flowers; diesel and gasoline exhaust fumes or brush and forest fire smoke.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter: List of groups that influence politicians should include labor unions
In her May 5 letter, "Political clout," Nancy Parks indicated that groups such as the National Rifle Association have the power to influence elected officials and we should force these officials to resist the biased groups.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter: 'Chickens are coming home to roost' for Obama
It appears that the wheels are falling off the leftists' band wagon. Gun control (more correctly people control) has been shot down. Obamacare is heading toward an unparalleled train wreck as more and more people realize what this will do to their taxes, their insurance premiums and their health...






