October 24, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Immigration is an issue fraught with multiple points of disagreement and one point where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle tend to agree: Unauthorized immigrants brought here as children, who have essentially grown up as Americans, shouldn’t have to live under constant risk of deportation to countries they may… Read story
October 24, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Election officials in Clark, King and Spokane counties have received complaints this year about ballot box surveillance and canvassers asking about voter registration status or who people plan to vote for. Read story
October 23, 2022, 6:02am Columns
Sitting in a downtown Vancouver coffee shop, dressed more like a hiker than a candidate for Congress, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez doesn’t look like an “elite” or a “limousine liberal” — pejoratives that conservatives like to apply with a broad brush to Democrats. Read story
October 23, 2022, 6:01am Columns
A recent Columbian editorial (Oct. 9) concerning ranked-choice voting and Charter Amendment No. 10 did a nice job of explaining the rationale for the proposal and how it works. Read story
October 23, 2022, 6:01am Columns
We can well understand Joe Kent’s grief over the death of his wife. Shannon was a Navy cryptologic technician who tragically died in a suicide bombing in Syria. Read story
October 23, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Senate Minority Leader Mitch “Party over Country” McConnell was wrong, again. Read story
October 23, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The year was 1995. Kristine Bunch was a 22-year-old single mother, wrongly arrested and charged and ultimately sentenced to 60 years in prison. For an accident. Read story
October 22, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Like other recent presidential candidates, Donald Trump was highly critical during his initial campaign of the increasing presidential use of executive orders, in this case by President Barack Obama. Read story
October 21, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Apparently, Craig Ridley somehow ceased to be a human being. That’s the only possible explanation for what he endured in a Florida prison. Read story
October 20, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Once again, the talking- and typing-heads are filling our news screens with double-doming about building an “offramp” Vladimir Putin will be willing to take to get out of the Ukraine war. Read story