Coronavirus news

If it's Earth Day, and it is, it's the 22nd of April and this means that we only have a little over a week left in the fourth month of the year! How has time flown by so quickly in 2021 already?!

Thankfully, if you live in Yakima you won't have to drive out of the city limits anymore to get your "Fauci Ouchie", as some people are hilariously calling it.

Did you all hear that Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will be visiting Yakima next week to talk about the Covid Relief bill? Fresh off visits across America to promote the White House administration's "Help Is Here" tour, the nation's first-ever Second Gentleman is making more stops to promote COVID-19 economic relief legislation...

Although extremely disappointing for all concerned, it seems this may be the prudent thing to have done. Anything less than true Oktoberfest revelry is unthinkable. Now I just have to find another opportunity to don my lederhosen in October. I guess I could dress up as a deranged yodeler for Halloween. Come to think of it, that's not much of a stretch.

It's been said that death and taxes are the only two certainties in this life. Most of us try to push them back as long as possible but, when it comes to filing our federal tax returns, it appears, we Washingtonians seem to get the inevitable over with as soon as possible, according to a recent survey.

If only I could be one of the lucky chosen few to nab a seat at one of the upcoming games that the Seattle Mariners are opening up to the public beginning April 1st.

Beginning March 22 in Washington state, the DOH says pregnant persons and people in agriculture, certain elements of the vast food industry, prisons, public transit services, first responders, and those who work in large groups as "high-risk critical workers" will be next in line to get the COVID vaccine. The rest of us just get to hurry up and wait.

Many great memories were had at Gilbert Cellars in downtown Yakima. After 12 years of business, the winery tasting room is closing because of the loss of customers due to the pandemic.

The House and the Senate said they came to snatch these wigs and pass these stimulus checks!

Let's go shopping! Four things that are shaped like Washington state.

Report finds people in Washington are among the most supportive of small businesses in the U.S.

Ever since I started using Zoom, I have always been jealous of people who have a background on their screen. For some reason, I thought you had to upgrade to a Premium Zoom account in order to use the background feature, but I just discovered that it's been available to me all this time with my free Zoom account!