April 3, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Yet again, our news screens flashed those two words: “BREAKING NEWS.” Read story
April 2, 2023, 6:03am Columns
The latest United Nations climate report makes for difficult reading. Read story
April 2, 2023, 6:03am Columns
Sandy Hook is the mass shooting I hear mentioned most often when people talk about the moment they knew nothing would change. Read story
April 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
It’s no secret that kids in the U.S. are struggling with mental health issues in increasing numbers. Now, a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association emphasizes the severity of the situation: Pediatric mental health hospitalizations are rising, and many more kids are being hospitalized for attempting… Read story
April 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The Vancouver City Council on Dec. 5 approved its Climate Action Plan, a 90-component program exceeding the Paris climate accord in the city’s goal to reduce 73 percent of community and municipal emissions by 2030. It was amended to remove NW Natural gas as a partner in the plan, over… Read story
April 1, 2023, 6:03am Columns
‘What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime… Read story
March 29, 2023, 6:01am Columns
When a person wants to score points in a political argument, they often quote someone who commands respect from those on both sides of the debate. Whether that person agrees with their position, took a position on their issue or even said what they claim sometimes doesn’t matter. Read story
March 28, 2023, 6:01am Columns
One of the essential principles of free enterprise depends on an understanding so conventional that it largely goes unspoken: When people borrow money, they must pay it back — usually with interest. Read story
March 27, 2023, 6:01am Columns
TikTok’s CEO is asking America to trust him to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party. Let’s not. Read story
March 27, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin ended their Moscow summit last week by showcasing economic help and diplomatic support China will provide the now supplicant banana-less republic that is Putin’s Russia today. Read story