March 23, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Listen, I don’t want to sound authoritarian, but I hereby announce that the coming week is “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Week” and that everyone 16 or older is required to sing its lyrics in public at least once a day. Read story
March 22, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Legislative sessions rarely pass without the esteemed lawmakers being asked by a group of schoolchildren to pass a law they really care about. Read story
March 21, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Stories such as Marissa Barnwell’s make me uncomfortable. Read story
March 20, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Politicians generally don’t like looking silly. And yet a whole bunch of Republican politicians reacted to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank by raging about “woke” banking” in ways that made them appear ridiculous to anyone actually concerned about the danger to the banking system and the economy. Read story
March 20, 2023, 6:01am Columns
It appears the Legislature will indeed beat its July deadline to come up with a compromise bill on how to adjudicate illicit drug possession. Read story
March 20, 2023, 6:01am Columns
For the first half of his speech as the Republican representative at the annual Gridiron Club dinner, Mike Pence served up the typical mix of self-deprecating humor and jabs at the political opposition. Read story
March 19, 2023, 6:03am Columns
Speaker Laurie Jinkins and other House Democratic leaders should ensure bipartisan legislation to change police pursuit policies is brought to the floor for a vote. A majority of state senators and Gov. Jay Inslee support it. Read story
March 19, 2023, 6:03am Columns
When state lawmakers gathered recently to fight about guns, they ended up going off on a jag about something else entirely: Masculinity. Read story
March 19, 2023, 6:03am Columns
Ken Salazar, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, met with the Los Angeles Times for more than an hour while visiting California in November. He was eager to talk up the celebrations surrounding the U.S.-Mexico diplomacy bicentennial. We were eager to talk about the border. The pas de deux featured a… Read story
March 19, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Let’s be grateful that Ron DeSantis devotes so much of his time raging over drag queens and bragging how he punished Disney for disagreeing with him. An obsessive pursuit of “woke” has kept the Florida governor and apparent presidential candidate from mucking around serious matters. But, sadly, not always. Read story
