Opinion
Editor’s notes: Still pursuing the facts in the age of coronavirus
While I’m normally not a big fan of Facebook, candy or long sentences, I also realized that I’m…
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Pandemic bringing major changes to your newspaper
Social distancing. Stay-at-home order. Coronavirus. COVID-19.
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Extraordinary measures during extraordinary times
With each day — with each passing hour, in fact — we’re learning more about how the coronavirus…
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Rockin’ a Hard Place: Love in the time of coronavirus
Last weekend, as I have for the past three years, I volunteered at Musselfest in Coupeville, selling grilled…
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Sound Off: Navy’s proposal would be unfair to city rate payers
“We are negotiating amongst partners who want to get to an equitable agreement.”
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In our opinion: Common sense is a good defense against coronavirus
Nobody can say definitively if, or when, the coronavirus will spread to Whidbey Island. Perhaps the relative isolation…
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In Our Opinion: Options for controlling utility rates likely limited
Oak Harbor council members didn’t adopt a plan to raise city utility rates precipitously over the next three…
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Rockin’ a Hard Place: How wet and muddy was it last month? Let’s talk it over
Let us all now take a moment, throw back our hoodies, heave a deep sigh of relief and…
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City should stand firm in sewer negotiations with Navy
Oak Harbor officials had yet another financial surprise regarding the new sewage treatment plant. This time it was…
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Sound Off: Built to last, and well worth a million bucks
Living in Central Whidbey, I have always thought that having all those historic structures in Ebey’s Landing National…
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In our opinion: Holland Happening may have changed, but name should not
Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce leaders learned that a tulip called by another name may not smell as…