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Nunnally: Don’t complicate elections

February 14, 2022, 6:01am Columns

Voting in Washington is supposed to be as easy as it gets. The ballot shows up in the mail with plenty of time to fill it out and explanatory information about what’s at stake. With access to the ballot box facing attacks in states across America, there’s a certain comfort… Read story

Estrich: Putin’s posturing unnerving

February 14, 2022, 6:01am Columns

I feel badly for Ukraine, poor country. Read story

Pitts: LGBTQ kids, don’t let haters win

February 14, 2022, 6:01am Columns

An open letter to LGBTQ kids: Read story

Flam: Fact-checking posts about COVID-19 isn’t working

February 13, 2022, 6:01am Columns

The right and left may not agree on what constitutes misinformation, but both would like to see less of it on social media. And as the world faces the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the threat that medical misinformation poses to public health remains real. Companies such as Twitter… Read story

Other Papers Say: Redistricting reforms are weak

February 13, 2022, 6:01am Columns

The travesty of governance carried out by the Washington State Redistricting Commission of 2021 must never be repeated. The panel didn’t just miss a long-established Nov. 15 deadline for approving political maps. It was worse. Read story

Westneat: Bellevue and prosperity bomb

February 13, 2022, 6:01am Columns

For years Seattle has been in a high state of angst, or yearning in some cases, about the prospect that our fishing village was morphing into the new Manhattan. Read story

Schram: Maybe Putin’s offramp can be repurposed

February 12, 2022, 6:01am Columns

Russia’s poker-faced President Vladimir Putin now realizes that blundering ahead with a massive Ukraine invasion could become an easy yet disastrous Russian victory. Read story

Pitts: Republican resolution a new low

February 11, 2022, 6:01am Columns

They stormed through police barricades, these “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” Read story

Harrop: Dems should seize good news

February 10, 2022, 6:01am Columns

Fabulous jobs numbers, a fading pandemic and a president doing his job with quiet competence should embolden Democrats to drop their funk and campaign furiously for the midterms. Read story

Westneat: COVID’s culture war rolls on

February 9, 2022, 6:01am Columns

In the week since a Washington state trooper died after a battle with COVID-19, I’d been wondering whether those who’d lionized him for refusing to take the vaccine might engage in a little introspection. Read story