Letters to the Editor

LETTERS: Competition needed for Google’s heavy hand

Recently, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings concerning Google, Prager University, YouTube, Twitter, censorship, internet search manipulation and similar issues. These testimonies manifest Google’s… Continue reading

  • Aug 22, 2019

LETTERS: ‘Mama Mia,’ production was wonderful

We had the good fortune to attend the Ghostlight Production of “Mama Mia” at the Sequim High School auditorium and it was fabulous. The singing… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2019

LETTERS: Commercial crabbers ruin sport for everyone else

The state gives us recreational crabbers a total of eight weeks to fish for crab. This year they let us put our crab pots in… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2019

LETTERS: Sequim not a good place for MAT clinic

I attended the “Coffee with Mayor Dennis Smith” at Sequim City Hall on July 25. An audience member questioned what can be done about homeless… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2019

LETTERS: Democrats delusional in attacks on Trump

How have Democrats become so delusional? Their websites, cable television, lack of education, inability to discern fact from fiction? Probably all, or part, of the… Continue reading

  • Aug 18, 2019

LETTERS: Get the facts on MAT clinic, voice opinion

I went to two public meetings held recently in Sequim about the planned medication-assisted treatment campus and I am 100 percent in support. Our region… Continue reading

  • Aug 18, 2019

LETTERS: Sequim needs emergency room, not MAT

Most of the MAT clinics operating nationwide by companies such as BayMark Health Services with 224 clinics in 31 states, are of a modest size… Continue reading

  • Aug 18, 2019

LETTERS: Socialized pharmaceutical system might have stopped epidemic

Just think if we had a socialized pharmaceutical system, the opioid epidemic might not have occurred. For example, many health maintenance organizations have their own… Continue reading

  • Aug 18, 2019

LETTERS: Time for Inslee to address problems in state

In spirit of full disclosure, I am a retired Washington Department of Corrections employee having worked for the agency for more than 20 years. So… Continue reading

  • Aug 18, 2019

LETTERS: Time to enforce speed limits

I read the front page article this morning in the Peninsula News (Aug. 7) titled “Trick attempt hurts 3.” My big questions upon reading this… Continue reading

  • Aug 18, 2019

LETTERS: Trusts tribe, council on facility question

I attended the medication-assisted treatment facility meetings at Sequim’s Guy Cole Event Center. I had done some research but wanted to hear both sides. To… Continue reading

  • Aug 18, 2019

LETTERS: Disregard fear-mongering ad about medication-assisted treatment

The medication-assisted treatment (MAT) advertisement in the Aug. 4 PDN sponsored by www.saveoursequim.org states, “Over 40 offices already provide MAT across the North Olympic Peninsula… Continue reading

  • Aug 16, 2019

LETTERS: Scrapyard site poisons land and water

I was glad to see the story about the old Midway Metals (“Clallam County eyes scrapyard options,” Aug. 6). This is a terrible impression for… Continue reading

  • Aug 16, 2019

LETTERS: Tribe, city make strong case for MAT facility

The impressive turnout for the Thursday meeting in Sequim on the planned medication-assisted treatment facility leaves no doubt many people care deeply for their community… Continue reading

  • Aug 16, 2019

LETTERS: Goodwill wasted with too little info about MAT too late

Last Thursday’s medication-assisted treatment facility meeting in Sequim was a real eye opener. It is evident that the clinic is going to happen and that… Continue reading

  • Aug 15, 2019

LETTERS: Stand back and let the Jamestown tribe help

One thing that you learn, when older than you ever imagined, is that the company you keep day-to-day around our towns is not always what… Continue reading

  • Aug 15, 2019

LETTERS: Thanks for the Shakespeare plug

Great shakes Thank you for the article in last Friday’s front page story about Key City Public Theatre’s latest Shakespeare in the Park production, “The… Continue reading

  • Aug 12, 2019

LETTERS: Write to legislators about assault weapons ban

Ban assault weapons How many mass killings does it take before we ban assault weapons? Please write your legislators to do this. Don’t we value… Continue reading

  • Aug 12, 2019

LETTERS: Opinions but no answers at Sequim rally

Hypocrisy in Sequim I attended the Save Our Sequim rally at The Farm. SOS is non-partisan, so I went as an Independent. I heard from… Continue reading

  • Aug 12, 2019

LETTERS: Get drugs from Canada only if that nation allows it

Depends on Canada A PDN article on Aug. 1 reported that the Trump administration announced on Wednesday “it will create a way for Americans to… Continue reading

  • Aug 12, 2019