August 1, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Recently, a bipartisan group of 16 U.S. senators agreed on a long-awaited proposal to fix the Electoral Count Act, the ramshackle 1887 law that then-President Donald Trump used to try to overturn the 2020 election. Read story
August 1, 2022, 6:01am Columns
If any Western leaders still nurse fantasies about talks with Vladimir Putin over the fate of Ukraine, Russia’s treatment of the historic port city of Odesa proves they are fools. Read story
August 1, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Modern school buildings support student achievement. But Washington’s reliance on local voter-approved funding for public school building projects has left some students relegated to buildings that are outdated, cramped and potentially unsafe. Read story
August 1, 2022, 6:01am Columns
It was 4 in the afternoon on March 10, 1991, when the first planned explosion of Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons went off at the U.S. weapons depot in Khamisiyah, Iraq, and the first gray-white smoke cloud that would come to be called The Plume wafted skyward and drifted over the… Read story
July 31, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The shocking revelations of the Jan. 6 committee, and the news that Vice President Mike Pence’s top aides are testifying before a criminal grand jury investigating the matter, have given new urgency to the question of whether the Justice Department will try to prosecute the former president. Ultimately, that is… Read story
July 31, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The social and economic fabric of Puget Sound depends on development, but it cannot come at the expense of the endangered species that make their home in the region. Recent efforts by the National Marine Fisheries Service seek to strike a crucial balance. Read story
July 31, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The other day out in the Tri-Cities, in Central Washington, an unusual bulletin appeared from a local chapter of the Republican Party. Read story
July 31, 2022, 6:01am Columns
A friend asked her therapist whether her new romantic interest, 17 years her senior, was “too old.” He responded, “Too old for what?” Read story
July 29, 2022, 6:01am Columns
We’ll get to the Nazi flags in a moment. Read story
July 27, 2022, 6:01am Columns
President Joe Biden’s approval rating in Washington appears to have tanked and Gov. Jay Inslee’s rating isn’t much better. Many voters think things are unlikely to get better in the next year and that their state and federal governments aren’t doing a good job of representing their interests. Read story
