July 22, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Opponents of Gov. Jay Inslee — several of whom can be found on your primary ballot — like to denounce in the harshest terms his emergency orders. Read story
July 21, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Tucker Carlson, a good-looking guy, bright, charming and the most popular attraction on cable TV, is also politically incorrect enough to send big-time advertisers fleeing purchases from his 4 million nightly viewers. He sometimes goes beyond this defamed preference for frankness by turning downright foul, and recently exercised this talent… Read story
July 20, 2020, 6:01am Columns
If the Trump family had never existed, someone would have invented them. Read story
July 20, 2020, 6:01am Columns
When President Donald Trump commuted Roger Stone's sentence of 40 months in prison for lying to Congress and tampering with a witness, he crossed into new territory dangerous to the republic. Read story
July 19, 2020, 6:02am Columns
The concept can be difficult to grasp, even with its current prominence in the national discourse. Read story
July 19, 2020, 6:01am Columns
The possibility that Congress might support local journalism got a boost when U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, volunteered his leadership on the Local Journalism Sustainability Act. His support cements Washington state as ground zero of a growing bipartisan movement to save the free press. Read story
July 19, 2020, 6:01am Columns
When I was a wee business reporter, I covered manufacturing in southern New England. Costume jewelry, a major industry then, has largely decamped to cheap-labor countries. Read story
July 19, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Let’s face facts, parents: Schools aren’t likely to open for in-person classes this fall, and if they do, it won’t be for long. Read story
July 18, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Let’s consider Mike Pence. Steadfast. Loyal. Vice president extraordinaire if you are of Donald Trump’s political persuasion, whatever that is. And head of the federal coronavirus task force. Read story
July 18, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Nothing really feels normal in this world of Not Anymore, even if some of the behaviors recommended or required are, ironically, starting to get old in how they inhibit interaction, in how they go against the grain of the way we’ve lived … forever. Read story
