Opinion
Natural gas is under siege in Washington state | Brunell
Whether you call it a ban or a significant deterrent to future natural gas consumption, voter approval of…
Opinion
Winning the battle against cancer by a whisker | Whale’s Tales
It all came to my attention one morning that formerly bewhiskered areas of my face were now bare.
Opinion
Farewell to Carnation’s outgoing city manager | Kathy Lambert
The city manager for the last three years, Ana Cortez, completes her last day on Sept. 3.
Opinion
We are facing an epidemic of blame shifting | Whale’s Tales
Now I’m starting to do all the healthful things I should have been doing all along. It won’t…
Opinion
Once upon a time when the truth still mattered | Whale’s Tales
We’re beating each other over the heads with “alternate facts.” It’s the tolling of our death knell as…
Opinion
Read thy neighbor: Local literature and myself | Guest column
Sometimes a book just finds you right when you need it, such as the works of a Valley…
Opinion
Thoughts on writer’s block and other first word problems | Whale’s Tales
“I once heard an anecdote about a writer who’d spent a week in his apartment working on his…
Opinion
Ready for another cold apple from life’s vending machine | Whale’s Tales
Call it the sweetness of life.
Opinion
Local shelter service celebrates new beginnings | Kathy Lambert
The goal of Reclaim’s new center, The Front Door, is to provide a warm, safe, inviting, supportive environment…
Opinion
The aggressive in-your-face nature of online advertising | Whale’s Tales
It was 3 p.m. on a recent Friday, and there I was, at my computer, desperate to dig…
Opinion
Rays of hope for health care access in WA and beyond | Brunell
One of the most vexing problems with our nation’s health care system is getting a timely doctor’s appointment.…
Opinion
It’s time to laugh instead of cringe at politicians | Whale’s Tales
As humorist and social critic H.L. Mencken wrote, “A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is…
Letters to the Editor
Complaint about political cartoon in the Valley Record | Letters
Cartoonist also responds.