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Your Voice: Sept. 17, 2025
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Your Voice: Sept. 17, 2025

NOTE: The opinions expressed in the letters below are “your voice,” and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Columbia Gorge News, its staff, publisher or advertisers.

Letters to the editor

Letter to the Editor: Fragile democracy

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To the editor: Our democracy is more fragile than we like to believe. The building blocks of the Constitution, Bill of Rights and related political Institutions rely of a deeper foundation - our respect and affection for one another. The tribalism infecting our attitudes towards one another is corrosive to the values and feelings that bind us together.

Letters to the editor

Letter to the Editor: NFL question

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To the editor: I have a question for those people boycotting the NFL because some players are not standing for the anthem, an action which you believe disrespects veterans, though that is clearly not their intent.

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Senator says Caterpillar avoided billions in taxes

  • STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — Calling Caterpillar Inc., a member of the “corporate profit-shifting club,” Sen. Carl Levin accused the manufacturing giant Tuesday of employing an aggressive tax strategy to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes.