January 8, 2023, 6:01am Columns
In July 2022, Gov. Jay Inslee and state Sen. John Lovick, D-Mill Creek, announced a proposal to build four new police training campuses to expand the current system relying almost entirely on a central Criminal Justice Training Center in Burien. Read story
January 8, 2023, 6:01am Columns
After years of legal skirmishes, court battles and the rest, the House Ways and Means Committee finally released President Donald Trump’s tax returns last week. It didn’t make front-page news because they had already been leaked. Even so. Read story
January 7, 2023, 6:01am Columns
President Joe Biden “shut down American energy,” Rep. Steve Scalise hollered with great confidence. The Louisiana Republican was nominating Kevin McCarthy for House speaker when he appended some commentary unburdened by facts. Read story
January 7, 2023, 6:00am Columns
District of Columbia Officer Michael Fanone and the others who responded to the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, held the line in more ways than one. Sometimes that line can be convoluted and complicated and sometimes it is pretty straightforward. Read story
January 6, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Ever true to its traditions, Official Washington has celebrated its holidays by toasting its successes, and then cruising comfortably into yet another new year. Read story
January 4, 2023, 6:01am Columns
With 2022 in the rear view mirror, this is an appropriate time for a brief look back on what the editor at my first newspaper used to call a Sergio Leone review – the good, the bad and the ugly. Read story
January 4, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Last year, as congressional elections approached, pundits offered a bold prediction: November would bring a “red wave,” a Republican sweep in the House and Senate. Read story
January 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
They call them “overdose prevention sites.” I’d never heard of them until I saw a picture in the Los Angeles Times of a drug user literally falling down in the middle of a city plaza where dozens of people were openly consuming fentanyl, meth and other deadly drugs. Read story
January 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
What’s a mountain, what’s a molehill? It’s getting pretty hard to tell in American media. Read story
January 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The 845-page final report of the House Committee on Jan. 6 is an epic. Like “Moby Dick” or “War and Peace,” it is destined to be admired more than read. Read story
