To the editor: I have to disagree with Mr. Avery’s letter suggesting promoters of dispersal of government land are playing a con game and misleading ranchers into thinking they will personally benefit.
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To the editor: A new high school would be wonderful. However, the proposal by Doug Kirchhofer is ludicrous and here’s why: The property he proposes carries a huge burden, namely inside the National Scenic Area outside the Urban Growth boundary. Both require massive action to develop for a permanent structure, if not impossible. It places a serious bond issue on the community for purchase of property and construction of buildings, not to mention extreme location for transportation.
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Hood River) holds his first town hall meetings in 2015 beginning on Saturday, with events scheduled in seven counties: Hood River, Wasco, Umatilla, Wallowa, Union, Baker, and Malheur.
To the editor: Whereas my parents lived during and managed to survive through The Great Depression of the 1930s; my children will be (thanks be to this Great Depressing Obamacare program and its regulations to cut home health care by 14 percent over a four-year period) challenged with my survival when my body loses its functions and requires home care.
We were extremely disappointed that The Dalles Chronicle chose to publish a rambling rant by Marilyn Clifford on Sunday, Aug. 4.
The big question looming before Americans in the months leading up to 2014 is whether free enterprise can competently serve a government mandate to provide a basic level of health care insurance to all citizens.
Sunday, April 28, 2013 by Bernice Bede Osol There are strong indications that you will form a powerful alliance in the year ahead that could prove to be helpful to your career. The value of this partnership will depend on your ability to keep it confidential.
Program to be held at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital.
This is in reply to John Ihle's letter of April 6, in which he calls for even higher levels of taxation than the 50 percent average total burden that already threatens to choke the life out of this country. To provide one local example out of thousands of government programs which deserve to be eliminated, consider CAT (Columbia Area Transit). The State of Oregon spent a million dollars in its first year, and who knows how much since, to fund a bus system which virtually no one uses, with the exception of a few elderly people going to the grocery store and back. For one-tenth the cost, you could pay two full-time taxi drivers with minivans to simply sit around on call and provide taxi service as needed. It won't happen because to do so would be to admit that public transportation is a colossal failure and a monumental waste of resources.
