February 21, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Last week, it was peanuts. Unsalted, roasted in the shell, to be exact. Read story
February 21, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Four hundred miles southeast of Portland, in a town of 2,000 near the Idaho border, one of Oregon’s best newspapers is up for sale. Aspiring owners of the Malheur Enterprise have until March 1 to write an essay convincing Les Zaitz, publisher and editor, that they’ll be good stewards of… Read story
February 20, 2022, 6:02am Columns
The favorite stumbled, bumbled, fell and was relegated to tears. The silver medalist screamed and cried in anger. The gold medalist, champion of the marquee event at the Winter Olympics, appeared forlorn while longing for somebody to hug. Read story
February 20, 2022, 6:01am Columns
After two years of the pandemic, an aspect of the disease remains a stubborn mystery: Why have some places fended off the contagion so much better than others? America was ranked first, on paper, for being ready for a virus outbreak. When a real pandemic hit, though, we have been… Read story
February 20, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The headlines about the polls are right, of course. President Joe Biden’s approval rating is in the toilet, right down there with presidents who stumble into wars, hostage crises, gas shortages and other calamities. Or worse. Read story
February 20, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Under the shadow of growing tensions with Beijing, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would help the United States remain economically competitive with China. Read story
February 20, 2022, 6:01am Columns
We’ve got protesting truckers in Ottawa, Canada, saying they’d rather wave signs, hang out in a parking lot with their loaded vehicles or block bridges and traffic than have the government do you know what: make them get COVID vaccines to just maybe save them and others they could infect… Read story
February 17, 2022, 6:01am Columns
It’s not always easy defining “the American way.” Is it a life of hiking and yoga and kale salads for lunch? Or is it sitting all day at a desk, in a vehicle or in front of the TV, all the while downing nuggets and fries? Read story
February 16, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The folks who run the stately, yet sedate, white colonial just a block from the U.S. Capitol have revealed that they now need to make one little style tweak to get their grand old party headquarters up to date. Read story
February 15, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The pictures from Ottawa over the last two weeks have defied every American stereotype of Canadians. We think of our northern neighbors as incorrigibly polite, their politics as moderate and their capital city — when we consider it at all — as boring, the Sacramento of the north. Read story
