June 30, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Former Rep. Matt Shea, who opted not to run for reelection to the Legislature last year, is gone but not forgotten at the state Capitol in Olympia. Read story
June 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
After years of declining crime rates, the United States is suddenly contending with an upsurge in shootings and murders — and the numbers are sobering. Read story
June 28, 2021, 6:01am Columns
I owe a lot to Gary Mahoney. Read story
June 27, 2021, 6:02am Columns
A Supreme Court decision last week will lead to profound changes in college sports. Read story
June 27, 2021, 6:01am Columns
California’s ban on assault weapons is back on the books, at least for now. After a federal district court decided that the ban on AK-47s was a “failed policy” that had not reduced violent crime, and was therefore unconstitutional, a unanimous panel stayed the lower court’s order, thus leaving the… Read story
June 27, 2021, 6:01am Columns
The other day, two political candidates really got into it during a debate about one of the most contentious local issues, homelessness. Read story
June 27, 2021, 6:01am Columns
As Senate Republicans were blocking a bill to expand voting rights for Americans, the Chinese government was destroying Apple Daily, the pro-democracy tabloid that campaigned for greater voting rights in Hong Kong. Read story
June 27, 2021, 6:01am Columns
We haven’t forgotten about you, Portland. But did you have to mention your functional bridges in a full-page Sunday newspaper advertisement courting tourists? Indeed, Seattle has a frustratingly unresolved infrastructure sore point there. Thanks, at least, for not bringing up your absence of sales tax, or presence of an NBA… Read story
June 27, 2021, 6:01am Columns
President Joe Biden’s negotiators are moving toward renewing former President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, a deal renounced by former President Donald Trump. If the Biden team succeeds, it will be the biggest foreign policy coup of the president’s first year — as well as a massive political… Read story
June 26, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Taxes are how we raise the money needed to run government. The rich have the wherewithal to bear most of those costs. These points are especially connected at a time when the rich have gotten so much richer and the government needs to do so much more. Read story
