Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Partner with UW

The Olympic Medical Center leadership should consider an affiliation with, not ownership by, the University of Washington hospitals. This non-profit research and teaching institution has… Continue reading

  • Jul 19, 2025

LETTER: Carbon dioxide

In a recent Rants and Raves feature, one person wanted to know why storing poisonous carbon dioxide in the ocean is a good thing. Carbon… Continue reading

  • Jul 12, 2025

LETTER: Fields of debt

I read about how federal cuts are impacting lives. From cutting ineligible people from Medicaid, to cuts to USAID, people’s lives will never be the… Continue reading

  • Jul 12, 2025

LETTER: No signs for visitors

If you welcome and greet our Canadian neighbors, friends and tourists, please leave your political signs in the basement. The tourists come to the U.S.,… Continue reading

  • Jul 12, 2025

LETTER: Reject for-profit partners

It is imperative to address the upcoming potential transition of Olympic Medical Center from a public hospital district to one partnering with a larger, differently… Continue reading

  • Jul 12, 2025

LETTER: Roundabout lighting

I am in complete agreement with the writer of a letter urging lighting at the roundabout at Sequim-Dungeness Way and Woodcock Road. I find it… Continue reading

  • Jul 12, 2025

LETTER: Public participation

What do we want on our Port Angeles waterfront and in the adjacent harbor? How can we save our last best chance of a salmon… Continue reading

  • Jul 5, 2025

LETTER: Trump’s agenda is costly

President Donald Trump’s policies have not only weakened the physical infrastructure of the United States but have also eroded our standing as a global leader… Continue reading

  • Jul 5, 2025

LETTER: Right of opinion

Please allow me to express with urgency the following in response to Invisible Sequim’s mission statement’s goals and objectives, a glaring contradiction of ideological definitions… Continue reading

LETTER: Common sense reform

Some comments on a “State permit needed to buy guns under new law” (PDN, June 3.) The article states Gov. Bob Ferguson signed House Bill… Continue reading

  • Jun 28, 2025

LETTER: Parties have failed us

Both the Democratic and Republican parties have failed our country and led us to the edge of the abyss. Decades of rapid change and major… Continue reading

  • Jun 28, 2025

LETTER: Power of the people

Since the election, towns across the Olympic Peninsula have seen increasingly large street gatherings to protest the cruel actions of the White House and its… Continue reading

  • Jun 28, 2025

LETTER: Third-world LA

Illegal immigration and several years of Democrat leadership has turned Los Angeles, what was one of the finest cities in the world, into a dirty,… Continue reading

  • Jun 27, 2025

LETTER: Devote time for English

Education has always been in the news for one reason or another. So many issues brought up that it is not possible to go into… Continue reading

  • Jun 27, 2025

LETTER: Right to protest

Trump celebrated his birthday with a $40 million military parade so he could feel equal to Putin, the Saudi kings and Kim Jong Un. He… Continue reading

  • Jun 27, 2025

LETTER: Economic harm

In response to the June 13 rant regarding short-term rental (STR) properties, the city of Port Angeles fully inspected and approved the Type 1 STR… Continue reading

  • Jun 27, 2025

LETTER: Freedom of speech

The arrest of students for peacefully voicing their views of the horrific war in Gaza is outrageous. Police snatching students, and others who are legally… Continue reading

  • Jun 7, 2025

LETTER: Happy countries

A recent Rant (PDN, May 31) asked whether diversity is, in fact, a good thing for America. The writer suggested that the happiest countries are… Continue reading

  • Jun 7, 2025

LETTER: Remove dams

The Strait of Juan de Fuca is home to 74 Southern Resident orcas. They are an iconic symbol for the region. Visitors go out in… Continue reading

  • Jun 7, 2025

LETTER: Library concerns

Library concerns Our local public libraries may be the most nonpartisan, vital and beloved institutions we have. They truly serve all our community with resources,… Continue reading

  • May 31, 2025