January 31, 2021, 6:01am Columns
State lawmakers are wading decisively into the difficult but necessary challenge of addressing the injustices and abuses that drove last summer's historic Black Lives Matter protests. Read story
January 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
What is it going to take? Read story
January 28, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Donald Trump’s narcissistic, scatterbrained, sometimes cataclysmic moral ineptitude hurt America in two different ways, first by his own attacks on what is so precious to our way of life and next by inspiring his political enemies to join the party. Read story
January 26, 2021, 6:01am Columns
President Joe Biden likes to talk about unity and his intent to rise above partisan rancor to heal the divisions that led a pro-Trump mob to swarm the Capitol on Jan. 6. Given his history of cutting deals with Republicans, I believe he wants to work across the aisle. Read story
January 25, 2021, 6:01am Columns
To anyone who followed Joe Biden’s successful campaign and his comments since clinching the presidency, the underlying theme of his inaugural address was hardly a surprise: a plea for national unity and a pledge to govern for all Americans, regardless for whom they voted. Read story
January 24, 2021, 6:02am Columns
More than any other sport — any cultural touchstone, really — baseball measures the passage of time in America. Read story
January 24, 2021, 6:01am Columns
It was a thing of beauty: a light blue, shining sky, a magnificent hymn, a powerful benediction, poetry, patriotic music and a speech in which President Joseph Biden called first and foremost for national unity, mentioning along the way such things as love, liberty, honor and truth. Can he help… Read story
January 24, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Students at Clark College and WSU Vancouver have big dreams for their futures. They are on track to become engineers who create software and design buildings, nurses who care for sick people and teachers who support the next generation of learners. The jobs that await these students in a post-pandemic… Read story
January 24, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Among the top priorities for newly sworn-in President Joe Biden is following through on campaign promises to reinstate federal investigations and oversight of troubled police departments. Read story