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A good cowboy will go beyond the call of duty and even put himself in harm’s way to help a suffering beast. Doug and Patty run a ranch in that big, wide country in eastern New Mexico. They’d received several loads of cow/calf pairs. The weather was against ’em and the calves went to scourin’. The cows were turned out in a big pasture. Treating the calves wasn’t easy. The morning of the incident, their neighbor, Caleb, came to help. He was ridin’ a big mule. They trailed through the cows and spot...
To the editor, Washington residents need to know: As of July 25, the new Washington law in policing Inslee signed no longer allows police to attend crisis situations putting all victims of crime (including domestic violence victims and youth runaways) at extreme risk. This article is from Moses Lake and it shows what all of Washington will be up against: https://columbiabasinherald.com/news/2021/jul/08/who-can-respond-new-use-force-law-changes-police-w/?fbclid=IwAR1Zmm1lpEABk3z5D9-rvWSp6Toodsbt-H4SsdrfBuAwJBMwl4XM5dQR4Y0. In addition, watch...
As the extremely hot temperatures have reminded us, much of eastern Washington, including our wheat-growing regions, is in the middle of a drought. This is a huge concern for me and other wheat growers in the area. Two wheat-industry officials, Washington Association of Wheat Growers President Ryan Poe and Washington Grain Commission Chairman Mike Carstensen, sent a letter on June 15 to Governor Inslee asking him to declare a drought emergency, which would provide affected farmers with access...
Aunt Effie was the ‘Neighborhood Healer’ in her community of Noble, OK. When I was visiting and scraped my arm or had a stomachache, she always had the right potion, poultice, roots, soak or fern to treat the ailment. Her husband, Uncle Leonard, was an authority on the ailments of cows and mules. That was 20 years before the widespread availability of penicillin in 1939. The lifespan of the average person was 47 years old. Today, it is 78 years old (pre-Covid). That is just one example of the un...
Washington’s long delay to re-opening has seemed very arbitrary. There isn’t anything scientific about June 30 in the fight against COVID but hitting that date on the calendar is the trigger necessary for the Governor to finally join 48 other states in lifting most of the emergency restrictions. While other states are also lifting their emergency declarations, Governor Inslee has indicated he plans to keep his in place. This is a good reminder that as we celebrate a return to semi-normalcy that the state’s emergency powers are still in need...
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflects the original. In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the...
The big boy land developers hired them a worn out hack To go and buy the water rights off farmers down the track. “Just pay ’em anything they ask. Heck, any price on earth. Those farmer’s haven’t got a clue of what it’s really worth.” “Them’s fightin’ words,” the farmer said. “This water ain’t for sale. It’s all that keeps this place alive. Without it crops would fail.” The lawyer sorta laughed it off. “We’ll get it anyway. The cities need it all to grow. You can’t stand in their way. It’s...
Washington's quarterly revenue forecast today showed yet another huge increase in tax revenue. This is $2.6 billion more than was previously expected when lawmakers wrote the 2021-23 budget earlier this year. We now have $2.6 billion reason for lawmakers to finally provide broad-based tax relief to Washingtonians. While the majority party in our state was busy imposing an unconstitutional capital gains income tax this year, lawmakers across the country were instead working to provide...
By Mariya Frost Congress will soon have an opportunity to vote on the INVEST in America Act, a $547 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, led by Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio. One of the major elements of the bill is a substantial increase in the percentage of money dedicated to public transit. For the last 40 years, the Highway Trust Fund, funded by an 18.4 cent/gallon gas tax and 24.4 cent/gallon diesel fuel tax, spent 80% of the funding on roads, and sent 20% to...
Today there is an increased recognition of the bonding process between man and animals. Pets are now referred to in politically correct circles as companion animals. Companion. By definition; an associate, a comrade. It’s not a bad choice of words in a world where families get fractionated, children leave home, neighbors don’t know each other and people get lonely. A pet can be a good companion. Of course, when the word ‘bonding’ is used, they are almost always speaking of the bonding between...
Contrary to recent claims that Snake River Spring Chinook runs are on the path to extinction, returns increased for the second year in a row, continuing the recovery from the recent low point in the population cycle. The Spring Chinook salmon run for the Snake River concluded yesterday, with 29,634 salmon passing the Lower Granite Dam. This is a 27 percent increase from 2020 levels and 55 percent larger than 2019 returns. That number is also only 495 Chinook short of the 2020 Spring and Summer r...
Mother gave me a small box of old pocket watches and a book entitled “A Practical Course in Horology.” It was a Christmas gift. A family heirloom, of sorts. “I don’t know if you’ve got anything of your father’s,” she said. “Fixing watches was his hobby. I thought you might enjoy these.” A wave of emotion swept through me. Although the sensation lasted only seconds, I felt the complete awareness of how much of me was him. “Did I get anything of my father’s?” I should say so. Agriculture, for la...
OLYMPIA–The Thurston County Superior Court issued a ruling last Friday (June 11) in the lawsuit the Secretary of State filed against the Governor for clarification on how to handle his simultaneous two-handed and off-camera signings of two broadband bills. By granting the Secretary of State’s petition in-part, the judge is essentially allowing Secretary Kim Wyman to do the job the Governor should have done the first time and determine which order the bills should take effect for legal implementation. The Secretary of State’s original petit...
Editor’s note: With all the hate, discrimination and wokeness happening at this time, I thought I would share this editorial from Holly Butcher of what is important in life, and what is not, when I came across this piece posted by Earthmonk on Facebook…on the rare occasions I surf the site. I believe it is worth documenting this piece–something that will not be searchable fifty years from now on Facebook–for future generations to read by publishing it in the East Washingtonian. Facebook, in my opinion, has advocated division among people throug...
The steer that topped the show this year was partly Chianina. The bull that threw the biggest calf was partly Simmental. The carcass class was swept away by three-eighths Limousiners The Gelbvieh cross was judged the best in this years overall. The feedlot men like Piedmontese to feed as crossbred critters Or any kind of cloven hoof that shows some part Charolais. A salers cross or Tarentaise that’s half or quarter blooded Or maybe half breed Longhorn calves or partly Murray Grey. The Brahma b...
To the editor, Your editorial really Nails It. And for some the vaccine is a danger. They may have “antibiotic dependent enhancement syndrome, where-in the vaccine can cause a cytokine storm, your Immune System turns against your body. There are problems/potential problems. I listened to four Physicians discussing the problems and potential problems. Rose Bunch, R.N. Clarkston, Wash....
I was recently sent a cartoon picturing a man standing next to a spaceship and an alien holding a sign which read “Take me to you leader.” The man replies: “You’ve sorta come at a bad time....” It got me thinking of the state of affairs in our nation and state. What is our government and elected tax-paid bureaucrats doing? Where’s the leadership? What I think is most prevalent are the ever-changing rules, mandates and, most serious of all, the continued need to remain in a state of emergency, which doesn’t seem to have anything to do with ma...
If it were possible to clone human beings from history, what would they be doing today? For instance, if we were somehow able to find a strand of DNA from Robin Hood, clone him and raise him in our modern environment, what do you reckon he’d be doing? His genes would give him the predilection to master disguises, slink around in back rooms and rob from the rich. Obviously, he’d be in politics. The sheriff of Nottingham, on the other hand would rob from the rich and poor alike and have no con...
By Mark Harmsworth New COVID workplace restrictions, issued by Washington State Labor and Industries (L&I) late Friday (May 21), require employers to check employee vaccine documents before allowing relaxation of social distancing and mask requirements in the workplace. In other words, state leaders want Washington residents to show a vaccine passport in the workplace. The obvious question on everyone’s lips is, “Isn’t this a violation of my medical privacy?” There is no clear yes or no answer....