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Letters to the Editor

Letter: Remove Snake River dams

December 28, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

Decades of scientific analysis has reached the same conclusion: lower Snake River dam removal is our best chance to recover salmon and steelhead populations. Read story

Letter: Hostages should be priority

December 28, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

In the last few weeks, the media has been filled with reports of pressure by different groups throughout the world to have Israel stop fighting Hamas. Read story

Letter: U.S. is fiscally irresponsible

December 27, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

If we really want to see change, we’ve got to fire some people. Congress has a 15 percent approval rating, and Biden is somewhere in the mid-30s. If we, as we did last year, vote 98 percent of congressional incumbents back into office, it’s on us. Period. Read story

Letter: Colorado court acted prematurely

December 27, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

The Columbian is surely correct that the best way to keep Donald Trump from returning to the White House is to defeat him next November (“Colorado ruling on Trump symbolic and troubling,” In Our View, Dec. 21). Read story

Letter: Financial literacy is crucial

December 27, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

The Columbian’s editorial (“Financial literacy crucial for Americans’ future,” In Our View, Dec. 20) is spot on. Back in the last century when I taught high school in a suburb of New York City (1965-97), the state curriculum required that graduates complete a half-year of economics (and a half-year of… Read story

Letter: No need for secret hearings

December 26, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

A Columbian article about the congressional probe of Hunter Biden details significant revelations surrounding the committee chairman’s own questionable financial activities (“The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden has his own shell company and complicated friends,” Associated Press, Dec. 16). This, I believe, directly relates to efforts to keep… Read story

Letter: Court should rebuke Trump

December 26, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

I predict that the Supreme Court of the Unites States will disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot. Read story

Letter: City spends other people’s money

December 26, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

We learn today that our city manager now makes $344,000 per year (“Vancouver City Council gives City Manager Eric Holmes $27,000 raise,” The Columbian, Dec. 19). That’s $56,000 less that the president of the U.S. makes, but who cares, it’s only other people’s money. Read story

Letter: Manage railroad for public benefit

December 26, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

Folks are very concerned about the heavy industrial overlay, the gravel pit in a pristine area, up to 500 train cars of gravel rumbling through 33 miles of Clark County and the attitude of the owner of the Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad, Eric Temple. Read story

Letter: Timber sale can help prevent fires

December 25, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor

I enjoyed the article about forest lands and the sale of timber for logging (“State agency, The Conservation Fund buy 20,000 acres of logging lands in Southwest Washington,” The Columbian, Dec. 19). I support logging in that it can make more habitat for elk and other animals to feed in.… Read story

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