Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Floating homes bad idea

Floating homes for Port Angeles? Just a bad idea. An expensive solution to solve the housing shortage. No mention in the story about cost per… Continue reading

  • Mar 10, 2021

LETTER: Objects to HR 5

I read recently that U.S. Representative Derek Kilmer voted for H.R. 999, the Wild Olympics Act. This act apparently had a lot of local support.… Continue reading

  • Mar 10, 2021

LETTER: Supports school levies

Following earlier submissions that addressed the recent impact of a school levy on Port Angeles property tax bills, a letter writer weighed in and suggested… Continue reading

LETTER: Higher property tax bill is money well spent

I have noted with interest recent letters and rants in the Peninsula Daily News concerning the Port Angeles School District’s capital levy, passed in 2020… Continue reading

  • Mar 8, 2021

LETTER:Electoral College outdated

I believe that the Electoral College, as it stands now, is an outdated system. There is no reason we shouldn’t be electing our presidents by… Continue reading

  • Mar 7, 2021

LETTER:Open up now

It’s been over a year now in which our community has been subjected to an atmosphere of fear and trepidation due to the pandemic. No… Continue reading

  • Mar 7, 2021

LETTER:Supports Goolden

I would like to make public my support for Leo Goolden and his quest to restore the wooden sailing ship Tally Ho. The ingenuity and… Continue reading

  • Mar 7, 2021

LETTER:Supports MAT

Did you know that many people in medically-assisted treatment for drug abuse work to serve your needs? Spread out between Port Angeles and Silverdale, my… Continue reading

  • Mar 7, 2021

LETTER: Thanks for clinic

My wife and I received our second COVID-19 inoculations on Saturday, Feb. 20 at Port Angeles High School. We were extremely impressed with the organizational… Continue reading

  • Mar 5, 2021

LETTER: Tribe a positive force

The Jamestown S’Kallam Tribe has been a positive and dynamic force in our community for years. They have built first class facilities with the Jamestown… Continue reading

  • Mar 5, 2021

LETTER: Capital gains tax needed

Washington state has the most unfair state and local tax system in the country. In its latest analysis of the tax systems of all 50… Continue reading

  • Mar 4, 2021

LETTER: Who voted for tax?

There was a time, not too long ago that a super-majority was required for any tax increase for schools. That was because the Legislature realized… Continue reading

  • Mar 4, 2021

LETTER: Voting for levies has consequences

I was amused, and a bit surprised, to read of local citizenry’s consternation with their 2021 county property tax bills. I, too, was disturbed but… Continue reading

LETTER:Outrage too late

Regarding the article “Property tax bill prompts uproar” in the Feb. 19 PDN, well, here it is. Where was the outrage when this levy was… Continue reading

  • Feb 28, 2021

LETTER:Pause a waste

Dr. Allison Berry is exactly right when she describes as “a waste” and “a silly pause” the state’s recent guidance stopping counties from vaccinating people… Continue reading

  • Feb 28, 2021

LETTER:Pipeline jobs

When confronting the depths of the great cliff that lies ahead one would normally avoid such a threat. So far it does not seem that… Continue reading

  • Feb 28, 2021

LETTER:Pope and climate change

I am so very tired of reading about Cal Thomas’ diatribes about the fakeness of climate change. It is the same thing, ad nauseam, and… Continue reading

  • Feb 28, 2021

LETTER:Who is he?

He had a narcissistic personality disorder. He had a warped sense of the world. He entered politics on racist tropes and lies. His acidic speeches… Continue reading

  • Feb 28, 2021

LETTER: Trump, Trumpism

Trump and Trumpism will slowly fade into the dustbin of history. Trump, for a while, will still lie to his followers, giving them false hope… Continue reading

  • Feb 26, 2021

LETTER: Deserves paved roads

I was very pleased to read the PDN article about possibly repairing and paving the roads in my neighborhood. My wife, Judy, and I live… Continue reading

  • Feb 25, 2021