Letters to the Editor

LETTER:Supports Hayes

Welcome Ken Hayes to the race for Clallam County Public Utility District commissioner from district 1. Upon hearing this new candidate for commissioner, I was… Continue reading

  • Aug 13, 2022

LETTER:Transparent elections

After receiving excellent training from the auditor’s staff, I observed how the ballots are handled and counted for Clallam County. Just as I had heard,… Continue reading

  • Aug 13, 2022

LETTER:Election observers

On Tuesday, Aug. 2, the PDN published an article “Auditor addresses observer concerns.” As trained election observers this year, my husband and I were very… Continue reading

  • Aug 12, 2022

LETTER:Airplane noise

Small private aircraft are a noisy nuisance, and frankly I am fed up. So many of us have chosen to live on the Olympic Peninsula… Continue reading

  • Aug 10, 2022

LETTER:Not so

The Aug. 6 letter to the editor, “Second Amendment”, states that ” ‘Foreign and domestic’ seem to be part of the Second Amendment often forgotten.”… Continue reading

  • Aug 10, 2022

LETTER:Vote them out

I am not in favor of Republican or Democrat, but what is leading us down the rabbit hole is electing over and over the same… Continue reading

  • Aug 10, 2022

LETTER: Keeping his guns

The letter “Second Amendment” (PDN, July 30) is an example of a very common misconception. Back when the Amendment was written, we had no standing… Continue reading

  • Aug 6, 2022

LETTER:Don’t hate them

Continuing polarization in our media and society has turned millions of Americans into haters. I read that 80 percent of Biden supporters and 84 percent… Continue reading

  • Aug 6, 2022

LETTER: Child support

Something I have not seen addressed anywhere, not to say that it hasn’t, but just that I haven’t seen it, is a possibly unanticipated consequence… Continue reading

  • Aug 4, 2022

LETTER: Due diligence

Responding to the Aug. 2 PDN article, “Auditor addresses observer concerns,” isn’t it great that Republicans are doing their due diligence in accordance with HR… Continue reading

  • Aug 4, 2022

LETTER: Vaccine injured

As an Independent, I want to share a story that influences my voting choices. A perpetual outsider because we moved to five states during my… Continue reading

  • Aug 3, 2022

LETTER: Secret Service

When air traffic controllers went on strike for better pay and benefits, President Reagan fired them all. When the Secret Service, all the way up… Continue reading

  • Aug 2, 2022

LETTER:Second Amendment

I have noticed that gun rights sometimes rear up. Here is the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to… Continue reading

  • Jul 30, 2022

LETTER:Racism

The reaction of the Port Angeles City Council to a multiracial family’s complaint of racist graffiti (“Graffiti sparks PA council discussion,” PDN, July 25) is… Continue reading

  • Jul 30, 2022

LETTER:Spending suggestions

What good fortune for the tribes of Washington to have received $50 million for salmon and shellfish habitat restoration in addition to their annual EPA… Continue reading

  • Jul 30, 2022

LETTER:Comparison

My family arrived 62 years ago in Port Angeles, then a bustling town of about 10,000 people also occupied by five mills including three pulp… Continue reading

  • Jul 29, 2022

LETTER:Superlative performance

District 3 needs Greg Brotherton to continue on the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners. His performance over the past 3½ years has been superlative. Greg… Continue reading

  • Jul 29, 2022

LETTER: Backs legislators

In this critical election year, I urge everyone to vote wisely and soon. We in Legislative District 24 are well represented by Reps. Steve Tharinger… Continue reading

  • Jul 28, 2022

LETTER: Radical Republicans

Because of the Republican Party’s extreme ideas on abortion, birth control, constant support for AR-15s with no regulation, negating separation of church and state, dissolution… Continue reading

  • Jul 28, 2022

LETTER: Supports Kidd

I support Cherie Kidd for Clallam County Director of Community Development because she gets things done, because she has long experience in our local government… Continue reading

  • Jul 28, 2022