To the editor: What a great service The Dalles Chronicle does for this community. There is a “Class Action Lawsuit” against Amerities for poisoning our air here in The Dalles for almost 100 years (since 1922), and there has been just one article about this possible $1.25 millon dollar payout.

To the editor: An open letter to U.S. Rep. Greg Walden: When I was growing up in The Dalles (along with you), my personal conscience was once described to me as this sharp cornered thing inside me that would rotate when I did something wrong and the pain it caused was my sense of guilt letting me know I was doing something wrong.