Wednesday, December 17, 2025

ARTICLES BY LINDA PINARD

Reader supports Mick Hansen for commission

I read in the newspaper where Curt Carpenter of the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District is going to get a pay raise of $100,000 a year. With a downturned economy, what would make the board decide on such a huge pay raise? Boeing engineers in Seattle make between $81,000 …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 14 YEARS AGO

Reader supports election changes

It is amazing to me that the Moses Lake irrigation district has taken such a strong stand against Mick Hansen. They may be fine, upstanding citizens that work for the Moses Lake irrigation district, but since I live on the lake, I would want the board to be above reproach. …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 14 YEARS AGO

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