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Log exports deserve protests

Seems there is always a group willing to protest military shipments or fracking sands or possible coal or oil shipments passing through the port of Olympia. Probably the same people making the protests most of the time. However we have been shipping jobs out of our port for years in the form of raw logs and no one seems to notice. Raw logs, or any raw material, being shipped through Olympia to be made into finished materials someplace else by other than American workers, should not be tolerated.

This story was originally published November 8, 2016 at 9:24 PM with the headline "Log exports deserve protests."

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