Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Sorted by date Results 1950 - 1962 of 1962
One of my mother’s friends was raised decades ago on a few acres at the end of a gravel road in Idaho. As she puts it, her family’s basic challenge was eating what it produced before other critters did. In other words, it was useful to consume the eggs in the henhouse before the foxes got to them. Those images sometimes come to my mind when I look at a bag of potatoes in the grocery store. Potatoes are relatively cheap and nutritious food, a good source of the basic food energ...
I give up. It has become abundantly apparent to me that this whole “health quest” is going to require a serious commitment, and I don’t mean to the nearest psych ward. No, I mean a serious commitment to a structured food intake program, commonly known as a (no, don’t say it!!!!) DIET. Of course, now the question is, which one? It amazes me just how many people claim to have the answer to my weight problem, from common-sense approaches such as TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibl...
Just a note to say “CONGRATULATIONS” to the five students who received awards in excellence for their (science) projects at the Odessa school. This is a great honor for you. I am proud to tell people I am from Odessa. I graduated from the Odessa High School in 1946, valedictorian of my class, but I can honestly say that I would be unable to accomplish what you did. Keep up the good work and again, congratulations! Bill Jessett Camas, Wash....
Just over a year ago when President Obama, then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., rammed Obamacare through Congress, no one really knew what was in the 2,700 pages of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA). But small business soon learned that it wasn’t so affordable. For example, the law includes a provision that requires all businesses to file a 1099 form to the Internal Revenue Service for p...
What I need is a personality transplant. In the two weeks since I saw the doctor about my knee, I have reverted to what I consider to be my true personality - that of a banana slug. I haven’t been writing down what I eat. I haven’t really even been thinking about what I eat, but I’m pretty sure that whatever it was, it wasn’t good. But every day is a new day, right? And every new day presents us with the opportunity to be a new person, if only in small ways. I have a picture...
Washington State’s hospitals are strongly opposed to the House budget and its attack on hospitals and the health of our residents. The House budget makes deep cuts to payment rates and services that will directly impact safety net hospitals and vital services provided to Medicaid enrollees. The House budget violates all the agreements made last year on the Hospital Safety Net Assessment, and changes the assessment from a fee to a tax on hospitals and their patients. The result is a $250 million cut to hospital Medicaid r...
Recently I heard this complaint: What does the government do for us? Let me count the ways, starting with money. Only the federal government has the right to print money. This “government” money shows up in many forms. Some of us receive Social Security benefits, and some get Medicare and Medicaid assistance – all government programs. Many of us get cash at ATMs, and some of us even save money at banks – both insured by FDIC, a government program. Some invest in U.S. Treasury bonds, and some get farm subsidies. Both are sup...
By DR. E. KIRSTEN PETERS Scientists have studied natural climate change for quite a while. Part of what we have learned about past climates comes from tree rings, and thereon hangs an interesting tale going back more than a century. Flagstaff, Ariz. was a pretty small burg in the 1890s, without the street lamps of big cities ‘back East.’ It also has an elevation of 7,000 feet, making it well over a mile above sea level. It was those two conditions that brought a young ast...
I’ve been totally bummed out this week. Even before last week’s paper was printed with my ode to spring, I knew I was having a setback. I don’t deal well with setbacks. I want life to proceed smoothly, without interruptions and without failures. Oh, well. About three weeks ago, my right knee started feeling a little funny. It wasn’t bending very well, and if I set it down wrong while I was walking, there would be a twinge. A week later there was more than a twinge, so I took...
I love spring. If pressed, I would tell you my favorite season is fall, but I love spring. When I was a little girl, I could be found wandering the creek just behind our farmhouse, or the swales up the driveway, looking for wildflowers, polliwogs, birds’ nests. I can’t begin to describe how wonderful it was to find a clutch of killdeer eggs disguised as gravel, lying at my feet. Of course, it was better to find them at my feet rather than under them. I haven’t changed much.... Full story
Those of us who have been around the block a few times will remember that the last time gasoline hit $4 per gallon a new industry sprang up. Drivers could buy magnets to attach to fuel lines to allegedly boost a car’s gas mileage by 20 or even 30 percent. The devices didn’t work, but the brisk market for them reflected the pain we were feeling at the pump. The Rock Doc confidently predicts the current spike in gas prices will lead to yet another round of activity by the cha... Full story
Washington voters have made it more difficult for state lawmakers to hike taxes by requiring a two-thirds majority to do so. The Legislature’s response? Increase fees, instead. Gov. Gregoire has ordered state agencies to cut their budgets and streamline their operations, saying, “State government cannot conduct business as usual.” But instead, some agencies want to offset their agency’s budget cuts with higher fees. Fee hikes require only a simple majority vote in the Legisla... Full story
To the Editor: The Columbia Basin Development League submitted comments during the public input stage of a draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Odessa Subarea Special Study. The Special Study is evaluating alternatives which would deliver Columbia Basin Project water to the Odessa Groundwater Management Area to replace deep wells. The wells in the area are in severe decline. A “no action” alternative is also being considered. The League commented that the State of Washington relied on expected Project development in... Full story
