Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Shopping nightmare

As you may be aware, the mere act of grocery shopping is becoming an absolute nightmare these days as we deal with this new normal.… Continue reading

  • May 10, 2020

LETTER: Ted’s tree

I read the obituary for Virginia Serr and was glad to read of her dedication to the giant madrona tree on west Eighth Street in… Continue reading

  • May 10, 2020

LETTER: Trump’s refusal

Trump’s refusal to accept any kind of responsibility for the failure of his administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic place him far below how real… Continue reading

  • May 10, 2020

LETTER: Doesn’t think opposite opinions should make us enemies

If you study our media sources of news you will get vastly different views and coverage from different stations. Many of our TV news and… Continue reading

  • May 8, 2020

LETTER: Dismayed by President Trump’s performance during COVID-19 pandemic

Can a leader’s slanderous insults, falsehoods and lies make a nation great? Yet, it’s what we hear during these past three years on live TV… Continue reading

  • May 1, 2020

LETTER: Saddened by the passing of Dennis Duncan

One day at Roosevelt Elementary School, storyteller Dennis Duncan and I were chatting while waiting for my third graders to come in from lunch recess… Continue reading

  • May 1, 2020

LETTER: Thankful for President Trump’s leadership in these trying times

I, for one, thank God that we have Donald Trump leading the nation during these trying times. I shudder to think that it could be… Continue reading

  • May 1, 2020

LETTER: Be kind, mind your own business

While wearing a mask provides protection, it also appears to empower people to police others and to say mean and nasty remarks to other customers,… Continue reading

  • Apr 29, 2020

LETTER: Appreciates teachers

It is very appropriate to acknowledge and praise the work that our health care workers do and I hope that appreciation will extend past this… Continue reading

  • Apr 26, 2020

LETTER: Stay Safe, Stay Fit

During this period of the “Stay Home. Stay Healthy” order from the governor, let me add “Stay Fit.” We are not in strict quarantine. We… Continue reading

  • Apr 26, 2020

LETTER: Safe distance

I am writing this letter as a mother concerned for her son and everyone else’s sons and daughters. Some businesses on the North Olympic Peninsula… Continue reading

  • Apr 24, 2020

LETTER: Too hard

When confronted with the desperate need to implement nationwide testing, which is the only real means to control the spread of the coronavirus and to… Continue reading

  • Apr 24, 2020

LETTER: Who’s insubordinate?

In the recent article about the Sunday protests in Olympia, one thing Governor Inslee said stood out to me. He said President Trump encouraged insubordination… Continue reading

  • Apr 24, 2020

LETTER: Stunned by the president

Stunned, shocked and dismayed, to hear and see a sitting president make a call to arms against governors of states who have displeased him. This… Continue reading

  • Apr 23, 2020

LETTER: Wants tourists to stay away from Clallam County

To date, there have been only a few cases of COVID-19 in Clallam County. As reported by the Peninsula Daily News, many of those were… Continue reading

  • Apr 23, 2020

LETTER: Healthy body politic

Crises have a way of laying bare some home truths. Reality is real and can’t be spun. We’re animals, tied to all other living things… Continue reading

  • Apr 22, 2020

LETTER: Possible death sentence

We all breathe the same air. It is the commons we must share to survive. Like it or not this means the air must sustain… Continue reading

  • Apr 22, 2020

LETTER: Proud of Wisconsin voters

The COVID-19 pandemic has given us a long roster of war heroes, the latest, the voters of Wisconsin. Democratic Governor Tony Evers ordered the April… Continue reading

  • Apr 20, 2020

LETTER: Thanking Port Angeles residents for their generosity

Dear Port Angeles, I left you many years ago after being raised on your shores. During visits I continued to see the peninsula a bit… Continue reading

  • Apr 20, 2020

LETTER: Bogus math

I’ve never seen a more idiotic commentary than that by Pat Buchanan which appeared recently in the PDN. In it, he argued that the potential… Continue reading

  • Apr 19, 2020