January 23, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Donald Trump left the White House with a clear, early verdict on his presidency: a devastating low 29 percent approval rating. Plummeting popularity and the Jan. 6 insurrection freed the greater public, pundits and the press to excoriate the president as he left office. Though journalists often pen the first… Read story
January 22, 2021, 6:01am Columns
And so we reach the end of an unpresidented era. Read story
January 21, 2021, 6:01am Columns
People had been expecting some more pardons as President Donald Trump barrels noisily off the stage. But this one feels, at least to local biologists, more like the surprise handing down of a death sentence. Read story
January 20, 2021, 6:01am Columns
For more than 11 years, a Gadsden Flag, a yellow banner with a coiled rattlesnake and the motto “Don’t Tread on Me,” hung on the wall of my Olympia Press House office. Read story
January 19, 2021, 6:01am Columns
After Donald Trump was elected in 2016, I wrote that the most important task for people — particularly those disconcerted by his election (as I was) — was to focus on the things closer to home. Read story
January 18, 2021, 6:01am Columns
There’s a message we are hearing every day: Somehow, by June or July, everyone who wants a vaccine will be able to get one. Read story
January 17, 2021, 6:02am Columns
The choice, it seems, should be easy. Read story
January 17, 2021, 6:01am Columns
When the president changes, the face of the U.S. government changes. Get ready for the most dramatic possible change next week. Read story
January 17, 2021, 6:01am Columns
On the heels of recent violence in the nation’s capital, insightful educators across the state switched scheduled lesson plans to refocus their instruction on the teachable moments that were playing out in front of us. Read story
January 15, 2021, 6:01am Columns
On April 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln went to Richmond, Va. Read story
