Columns

Westneat: Coach case goes out of bounds

September 26, 2022, 6:01am Columns

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that Bremerton assistant football coach Joseph Kennedy had the right to pray on the field, it wasn’t widely understood then that the court had also ordered the school district to give him his job back. Read story

Allen: Graham’s abortion bill is not extreme but is ill-timed

September 25, 2022, 6:01am Columns

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a federal proposal recently to place reasonable limits on abortion. Read story

Other Papers Say: Space must be kept safe, clean

September 25, 2022, 6:01am Columns

Whether it’s a plastic water bottle on a mountainside or an energy bar wrapper on the beach, humans tend to leave detritus in our wake. In that sense, outer space is no different. But while you can always pick up after yourself on Earth, it’s not easy when that debris… Read story

Pitts: GOP doesn’t aim to fix immigration, just exploit it

September 23, 2022, 6:01am Columns

Immigration is the last thing this is about. Read story

Camden: Money spoils race competition

September 21, 2022, 6:01am Columns

Although Spokane was once the home to some of the hottest, closest and most expensive legislative races in the state, the 2022 races are fairly tame so far and will likely stay that way through the Nov. 8 election. Read story

Schram: Did Xi learn from Putin?

September 19, 2022, 6:01am Columns

This was not the way Russia’s Vladimir Putin wanted to look, for all the world to see on Thursday, when he walked into the massive and bizarrely flowered and leafy conference room in Uzbekistan for a much-needed meeting with a deep-pocketed counterpart, China’s Xi Jinping. Read story

Leubsdorf: Time crunch for Biden’s judicial picks

September 19, 2022, 6:01am Columns

The controversial rulings in the Trump documents case by a Florida federal judge nominated by the former president — and the prospect that a Trump-dominated appeals court will consider any appeals — is a vivid reminder of the long reach of any president’s judicial appointments. Read story