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Much happens around Easter. Adults hide eggs, and children hunt passionately for them and the candy they hold inside. People spend significant amounts of money on that candy, as well as other gifts that may or may not fit in Easter baskets. At some malls, children can even sit on the fabled Easter bunny’s lap to tell him what they want for Easter. Much is also written about Easter. Some atheists write disparagingly against those who would even consider celebrating Easter. O...
Former 13th District Senator Harold Hochstatter used to say, “The issue isn’t the issue; who decides the issue is the issue.” Right now, that is never more relevant than when talking about a state income tax. In Olympia, Democrats will tell you there is no interest in a state income tax, yet just last week, they proposed a capital gains tax as part of their proposal to raise $8 billion in taxes over the next four years. Democrats will also tell you a capital gains tax is not an income tax, despite past precedence in court...
An open letter to principal Jamie Nelson, science teacher Jeff Wehr and the OHS science project students: We are so impressed with your first place wins. [Editor’s note: See April 6, 2017 edition of The Odessa Record.] Once again, Odessa students and staff demonstrate that small schools matter! And even more important, science matters! Your work, enthusiasm, and dedication illustrate the power of the inquisitive mind, the excitement of advancing human knowledge, the camaraderie of student scientists everywhere. Kudos to y...
To the Editor: She said what? Yep, on national TV, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers said of President Trump, “I trust him. He is shaking things up.” Well, we must agree that he is shaking things up by cutting 3 million from meals on wheels for needy citizens, yet spends 3 million each weekend on golf jaunts to Florida. He shakes us up with his pattern of lies, such as falsely accusing President Obama of wire-tapped his phones, costing taxpayers to investigate and show he lied. A president who gets his intelligence bri...
To the Editor: Section 1 of the 14th Amendment guarantees due process and equal protection of the law to all persons in the United States. Numerous Supreme Court decisions have consistently defined “person” to be any person, citizen and alien (legally or illegally present) and thus provided due process and equal protection of the law. 1886 Yick Wo v. Hopkins stated that the 14th Amendment applies to all persons (legally or illegally present) in the United States. 1892 Nishimura Ekiu v. United States found that foreign nat...
To the Editor: Mr. Trump inherited a mess! The problems are not just from Mr. Obama! The immigration problem started prior to World War II when people were needed to work in the fields as men and women were needed for war effort. Our infrastructure goes back to Ike’s presidency as his program made it so nice to travel! Too many thought that program would last forever! Our military decimation goes back to the Clinton Era, and the Bush-Obama war efforts used without adequate replacement. L.B.J. was the first administration t...
To the Editor: Upon reading all the comments and letters from all the Democrat supporters claiming the Republicans were holding up progress all these years, we have finally got the safest and best country to live in. Now since have President Trump in office, all you read and hear is that it’s Trump’s fault; he’s to blame for everything. So under those circumstances we only have one person to watch. And our economy is sure to improve because of all the money the Democrats are spending on travel expenses, and the money being...
To the Editor: Sara Beltran-Hernandez, 26, was recently arrested in a Fort Worth, Texas hospital where she was waiting for brain surgery to remove a tumor. She must have been such a serious threat to national security while waiting for surgery or would have been an even greater danger to the United States while in surgery or recuperating for several months. After Sara was placed in a detention camp in Alvarado, Texas, her health deteriorated despite ICE claims of available emergency health care. ICE seems to be acting as the...
To the Editor: Under the powers of Congress, Section #8, Subsection #4, Congress has the power to make naturalization laws (laws that state the requirements a foreigner must meet in order to become a citizen of the United States). These have been in force for over 200 years. The amendments to the Constitution were added to protect the rights of citizens of the United States. Illegals are not citizens until they have been vetted through our immigration system. The 14th Amendment (1868), section #1, states that any person born...
A bill that would direct the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Washington State Department of Transportation to conduct an elk management pilot project to reduce elk highway collisions passed the state House of Representatives Thursday. Rep. Tom Dent sponsored House Bill 1353 to address the growing problem of the Colockum herd in the Kittitas County region. “This is a huge public safety issue along Interstate 90 and needs to be addressed,” said Dent, R-Moses Lake. “It is only a matter of time befor...
It is the first of the year and many of us stop and take a look at ourselves and think of changes that we might like to make. We call them New Year’s Resolutions. A new year is a chance to make some changes to our lives that we have let slip over the previous year. Perhaps a few pounds have shown up from nowhere, or some bad habits have made their way into our workout, okay maybe we just stopped working out. Whatever it might be, we ask ourselves the question, “Should we make these resolutions or not?” Turn this quest...
To the Editor: What happened to our Constitution? ICE rounded up 680 aliens last week. Some were labeled “criminals” without their day in court. No due process. No equal protection. Evidently, being suspected of a crime is the “new” high bar for deporting people. The administration asserts that this is okay because “legalities” can be sorted out later. Really? Section 1 of the 14th Amendment guarantees due process and equal protection of the law to all persons in the U.S.: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall a...
To the Editor: Having feared death all my life, now that I am confronted with it daily, I no longer fear it. I fear only that the period leading up to my death will have been a waste of time, and the loved ones I will leave behind will be full of emptiness. Had I during my life feared death as little as I do now, I would have dared bigger and better things. Life can be so fleeting, so I live every day like it will be my last. I wanted to do something amazing and own it before I go. That’s my philosophy, since I was d...
To the Editor: As military brats, my sister and I attended government (U.S. Army) schools in Germany and at Fort Ord, Calif. We also went to public schools in Fayetteville, N.C.; Tacoma, Wash.; Lakewood, Wash.; Monterey, Calif.; and Albany, Ga. At each school we gained knowledge. My sister fulfilled her dream by going to business school; I achieved mine by going to university. We both worked and contributed to society. For 42 years, I taught thousands of public school students. Almost all achieved their dreams, gained...
People of Odessa, we have reached a turning point. Well, perhaps I should say that we have reached an intersection. It’s up to this community, not just a few people, to decide which way to go. Each and every one of you will have the opportunity to help make that decision January 29. For 45 years, Deutschesfest has been Odessa’s biggest and best-known community event, at one time bringing thousands of people to our town to enjoy a day or a weekend, to eat great food, meet gre...
A large number of peole in the media world are unhappy because Mr. Trump is selecting too many generals and wealthy people for his cabinet. Please stop and think about this! Mr. Trump is far more intelligent than what he displayed early in his campaign. He is choosing pepole who graduated from a military academy. Only the cream of the crop is accepted. They graduate as lieutenants and they start working their way through the ranks. Only a select few become generals. After they have served their time they retire, and these...
Marvin was a good friend and supporter when I was stationed in Odessa with the Washington State Patrol. I enjoyed and respected all of the Fink family. Odessa and Lincoln County have lost a true patriot. RIP, my good friend. Dennis and Sandy English...
It’s that time of year again to make a New Year’s resolution. Like the Roman god Janus, we look to our past to see what didn’t work as we hoped and then to the future with a new promise, which we probably will not keep. But we can take comfort in having good intentions. As a nation, we sometimes make promises that we don’t keep either. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had noted, one such unmet promise has yet to be fulfilled: Equality. When our Founding Fathers gave us the promissory note that “all men are created equal,” t...
The past week, our country lost an icon. Unless you live in Ohio, where he was a senator, you probably knew John Glenn as the first American to orbit the earth. In 1998, he also became the oldest person ever to travel into space. The death of this famous astronaut brings our imaginations back to the great space race of the 1950s and 60s. Many children grew up wanting to be astronauts - to blast off into space, to orbit the earth, even to walk on the moon. However, the country...
Whew! It’s finally over, except for the shouting. Much of that from people who have been use to getting too many free things from our tax dollars. There are probably a large number of reactions from people who have been influenced by the increasing gap between the red and the blue. I would like to remind you that we have elected previous presidents like Ronald Reagan, who was very unpopular for the first two years! He was so unpopular that it cost the red party during the mid-term election. He had inherited a real mess from M...
My wife and I would like to give thanks to the pastors and their families here in Odessa. They are on call 24-7. They give up personal and family time to help us in our hour of need. They ask for so little in return. Happy holidays to all. Pat and Mary Gamache Odessa...
Each time I go to the store I am amazed at the increase in the number of craft beers and the number of flavored beers. I have seen orange, lemon, apple and even iced tea. The latest one I saw was rootbeer with an unhealthy amount of alcohol. Do you think, as I do, that this is a ploy to attract ladies and younger people to try something new that is less harsh than plain beer? There is a very old history to beer as the workers (or slaves) that built the pyramids were paid by allotments of beer. If they worked really hard,...
Dreamers: Some are called dreamers or lazy. But dreamers are seldom lazy. Their minds are always working, looking for answers to this, that or the other thing. Dreamers are explorers, constantly investigating things. They take things apart to see how they work or how they are made. For dreamers, [the word] “can’t” is not an option. They look at life with a half-full attitude. But where would the world be without them? They turn night into day, revolutionize how the world works, teach and inspire the world. They have a fresh...
With the passing of Edwin C. Kern, I remember him as being the last member of the Odessa Eagles Aerie 3069, which formed on October 1, 1950 and lasted until it consolidated with the Spokane Eagles Aerie 2 on March 15, 1960. He was the Secretary for the Aerie. Many years back, Joanne and I went over to his home and he was really proud to show us his gold card and a state convention book he had saved. He wanted to know all about what the Eagles were doing at the present time. I called him on his 100th birthday to wish him a...
Our recently elected federal and state officials now have two numbers to focus on: $135,000 and 19%. First, the $135,000 is the amount of money it will take for a middle-class family to pay its bills with a little leftover for emergencies, some savings, and the occasional incidental. This is not luxury living or even an extravagant life style. It’s merely a comfortable living. A few years ago it took $100,000, and it will take about $150,000 in a few more years. Given that the average income of a middle-class family is $...
