News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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The Grand Coulee Star is a weekly community newspaper. It covers local news, community events, births, weddings, obituaries, police reports, and school happenings. It has an editorial page that regularly showcases conservative voices, including GOP Representative Dan Newhouse and business columnist Don C. Brunell, as well as letters from local citizens, and a political cartoon —a time-honored American tradition. Accusations that it is “liberal” are laughable. It’s a fantastic community resource that we should all be proud to support. It’s ne...
Everyone can agree that the country should reign in the debt. But then why is the Trump Administration pushing a budget that extends tax cuts for the extremely wealthy and raises the debt ceiling to four trillion dollars? Lost in all the nonsense circulating about supposed “waste, fraud and abuse” is the fact that the Trump Administration fired many of the Inspectors General (the people responsible for investigating actual waste, fraud, and abuse). All of these seemingly random cuts potentially have disastrous consequences for our com...
The elections always generate a lot of enthusiasm and competition. Overall, that’s a good thing — a sign of a healthy Democracy. But when things get too heated, it become corrosive. People who oppose Donald Trump aren’t “haters.” They disagree with his positions. Kamala Harris isn’t “retarded” (an antiquated and cruel word for people with intellectual disabilities). She is an accomplished, intelligent woman. Democrats are not “Marxists,” “Socialists,” or “Communists.” That’s a ridiculous assertion on its face, at least to those of us who know...
My parents were of the “Greatest Generation”: Dad served in the Army Air Corps in the European Theatre, and Mom was a defense worker. They had grown up in the Great Depression, which was a time of political division and grinding poverty. There was a populist element in the country that wanted the United States to be isolationist, led by the heroic pilot Charles Lindburg. Industrialist Henry Ford was a quiet supporter of Adolph Hilter. A Catholic priest named Father Edward Coughlin had a huge national radio audience where he spewed ant...
Don C. Brunell really outdid himself with his January 10th column, “Biden needs to expose his secret Snake River dam plan to reality.” Despite his somewhat hysterical and overwrought tone, no “secret plan” was hatched in “the White House Basement.” The leaked policy statement he refers to is very much a matter of public record and has been for at least a month. It does not endorse removing the dams; it only looks at replacing lost generation from the power grid if they are to be removed — an obvious and sensible move. Also, any plan to breac...
Recent letters to the editor accusing The Star of bias ring hollow to me. After all, the editorial page regularly runs columns by Republican Representative Dan Newhouse and conservative business leaders. Editorial pages are for everyone to express their opinions — including the publisher of The Star. Opinions as to who was the “best” or “worst” President are as varied as there are presidents, and have been around for all 246 years of the republic. All should be respected for what they are — opinions. It’s history that will make the final det...