Listen to local voices on preserving dams

Even well intentioned crusades in the name of the environment can cause real economic consequences for communities on our side of the “Cascade divide.”

I was disappointed that Governor Jay Inslee recently chose to side with west-side interest groups that are seeking to increase spill or even breach the federal dams on the lower Snake River.

Our Mid-Columbia communities would pay the price. The stakes for our region are too high for preserving the dams on the Columbia and the Snake rivers to be approached in a partisan way.

In response to a federal judge’s misguided order in 2016 that threatens...