Published on May 8, 2019 as a Letter to the Editor in the Hood River News. All elections matter, but … More
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Local elections matter: Columbia Gorge Community College
Published on May 15, 2019 as a Letter to the Editor in the Hood River News. The three Hood River … More
Congressman Walden responds
See Disclaimer. Responses are to my letters on HR1 and HRC24. After the 2018 elections, Congressman Walden (R-OR2) has made repeated calls for … More
A letter to Mr. Walden on HCR 24, calling for the release of the Mueller Report
This letter is the third of an occasional series that follows up on Mr. Walden’s recent calls for bipartisanship . The first … More
A letter to Mr. Walden on H.R.183, condemning intolerance and bigotry
Letter submitted to Congressman Walden, and also published in Hood River News (March 23, 2019) under the (editor’s choice of) … More
Lessons learned and ignored
Read Disclaimer. I recently watched “Dunkirk,” a movie about the real-life daring evacuation of hundreds of thousand Allied troops from … More
A letter to Mr. Walden on “H.R.1 – For the People Act of 2019”
Letter submitted to Congressman Walden, and also published in Hood River News (March 13, 2019) under the (editor’s choice of) … More
The opportunity in Mr. Walden’s changing ways
Read Disclaimer. Seemingly an eternity ago (January 2018, Hood River News, Another Voice: “Open letter to Walden: Seek common ground”), … More
Thinking beyond a one-term president
Read Disclaimer. Consider the following premise: Mr. Trump will be a one-term president succeeded by a Democratic nominee, unless the … More
How to follow an hollow speech?
The State of the Union address was promoted as a call for reconciliation and bipartisanship, towards the unity the country … More