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Fox News seized occasion to cultivate disinformation
To The Eagle: On Jan. 9th the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, studying the possible effects indoor gas cooking stoves might be having on air quality and health in homes, suggested that “stricter regulation of new gas stoves” might be in...
Alternative to speed humps suggested
To The Eagle: Regarding speed limits, the council and mayor might consider painting the roads instead of speed humps. There have been multiple studies and reports demonstrating that public art decreases traffic accidents and speed between 17% to...
She will not be brainwashed into watching fake news
To The Eagle: Last year April 2022, AT&T DirecTV shut down my favorite news channel OAN. Just recently midnight Jan 25 they shut down another news channel Newsmax. Quote from Newsmax: “DirecTV pays cable license fees to all top 75 cable channels...
Cathlamet does not need a town manager
To The Eagle: The last thing Cathlamet needs is a town manager. In my experience, this conversation arises because council members (or former members) seek to distract a mayor they disagree with, even though the idea is unrealistic. For one thing,...
We can learn from our neighbors
To The Eagle: Mayor Olson’s council letter published in last week’s Eagle attempted to counter my earlier stated rationale regarding Cathlamet’s need for a town manager. By picking and choosing certain details, yet conveniently forgetting...
Local heroes praised
To The Eagle: This is a shoutout to some of my heroes. First is soon to be 90, Lou Cunningham. She likes to make knit hats. She gave me over 200 hats for Santa to pass out to all the students and workers at the grade school. And she wants to do it...
Heaven help us
To The Eagle: One writer last week said he missed Howard Brawn's letters. I join him. It's times like this that I wish he was still wielding his pen to cross with mine but, alas, it's not to be. On that regard let me throw out a challenge to any and...
Mayor comments on Butler lot finances
Editor's note: Here is a copy of a letter Mayor David Olson sent to Cathlamet council members regarding expenditures for the development of the Butler Street parking lot.) To the Cathlamet Town Council: I want to respond to statements concerning the...
The town needs a professional manager
To The Eagle: To put my Butler parking lot comments from last week in perspective: · A much more efficient and aesthetically pleasing parking lot on Broadway St replacing Wally Wright’s old hardware store was recently and benevolently developed...
More anti-seaplane misinformation
To The Eagle: Again, more misinformation from the anti-seaplane writer last week when he stated "there are no overhead flight paths in this area." There are actually three “overhead flight paths” in this area. Low Altitude Victor Airway T355 is...
High level politics is about dealmaking
To The Eagle: High level politics is fundamentally about dealmaking. You can’t succeed unless you’re willing to make a deal with practically anyone on almost anything. Faust’s deal with the devil was fatal. On Capitol Hill, it’s how you...
Horse and buggy days were clean, cheap
To The Eagle: I will never buy an EV car. I’ve read many negatives about them. While it takes an hour or more to charge a cell phone, iPad, iPhone, imagine how long it would take charging a car? Besides, charging an EV, the cost would be...
Star Program expresses thanks
To The Eagle: We want to thank all of the people of Wahkiakum County that helped The Star Program for the 2022 Christmas season; the families that took stars, the businesses where we were allowed to place star trees, and to the volunteers that...
The Sheriff's Corner
What the heck’s been happening in the Sheriff’s Office you ask? Well, several positive things happened in 2022 and are carrying over this year as well. Sometime this spring, patrol deputies along with the sheriff, undersheriff, and...
Another view of the seaplane hangar
To The Eagle: I am neither for nor against a seaplane hangar at the marina, but a writer in this column has been giving you inaccurate, misleading, and flat out wrong information trying to convince you to vote against one. The Cessna Caravan he...
Parking lot comes with horrendous cost
To The Eagle: The Eagle recently announced that the Butler St parking lot’s first phase of construction is complete and partially ready for use. Town taxpayers though need to understand the horrendous cost they’ve incurred for this project: ...
A Seaplane base at Cathlamet
To The Eagle: As each reader has no doubt experienced, the area in and around Cathlamet can be breathtaking and incredibly peaceful: it is a situation that is unique compared with nearly every other city on the lower Columbia River. While we are avia...
Zelenskyy's speech condensed
To The Eagle: As the armed forces of Ukraine face their own Valley Forge this winter, their President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his address to this nation from our Capitol, has personally thanked the citizens of this community. The following is my...
Neither political party is perfect
To The Eagle: Now that Christmas is finally past, our CHINO (Christian in name only) friends can return to the thoughtless cruelty they're so good at. I well imagine the Lord and Savior was appalled that the powers that be in Texas couldn't even wait...
Retiring assessor says goodbye
To The Eagle: I have had 12 years serving the people of Wahkiakum County as Assessor. Being your Assessor is not a bed of roses, nor is it hell-on-earth. It is an important job that I have really, really enjoyed. I began in early January of 2011...
Part three of three
To The Eagle: RE: A Seaplane base at Cathlamet. We are concerned Cathlamet residents who love this city we call home. But while I am an aviation enthusiast myself (but not a pilot), my family and I wanted to urge our fellow citizens to contact and...
Reject seaplane base at Cathlamet
To The Eagle: We are concerned Cathlamet residents who love this city we call home. But while I am an aviation enthusiast myself (but not a pilot), my family and I wanted to urge our fellow citizens to contact and petition the county commissioners to...
Local wordsmith will be missed
To The Eagle: Nearing age 80 one gets used to friends passing but when they do it always causes new pain. Some more than others. I received an email from Judy Brawn telling me that Howard had passed away peacefully a week before the beautifully...
Mr. Brawn wore his love of country on his sleeve
To The Eagle: I was saddened to learn of the passing of Howard Brawn in last week’s Wahkiakum Eagle. I will miss his insightful thoughts put to pen in his frequent letters to the editor; those letters were informative, not nasty or hateful as some...
Remind the government they are employees
To The Eagle: We all know for the money we spend on private businesses, we always get something in return like clothing, dining, etc. It also goes to pay salaries for their laborers. When private business is not prospering, depending on the...
