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Pitts: Like Wilt said, nobody roots for Goliath

July 17, 2020, 6:01am Columns

Dear Karen: Read story

Leubsdorf: Back to school only when safe

July 16, 2020, 6:01am Columns

In demanding that schools reopen full bore and on time, President Donald Trump is once again putting his own political interest ahead of the country’s interest. Read story

Westneat: Arresting media is not new

July 15, 2020, 6:01am Columns

The story of a British journalist getting wrongly arrested by Seattle police during recent protests is making the rounds, mainly for his implication that he was treated worse here than when he’s been detained in places like Cuba or Pakistan. Read story

Saunders: Closing schoolhouse door hurts kids

July 14, 2020, 6:01am Columns

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had not recommended the general closure of public schools in the spring when panicked governors and local officials shuttered schools across the land. Read story

Leubsdorf: Why an underdog pick is unlikely for Biden

July 13, 2020, 6:01am Columns

Every few days, one or another news organization reports on the state of Joe Biden’s vice-presidential search, touting the latest inside information on who is up and who is down. Read story

Pitts: There’s ample blame to go around in teen’s COVID-19 death

July 13, 2020, 6:01am Columns

A few words on the death of Carsyn Leigh Davis. Read story

Westneat: ‘Breath of liberty’ and some hot air

July 12, 2020, 6:01am Columns

We’re all socialists now, apparently. No, really — it turns out even the most rugged of the free marketeers have been coaxed by the coronavirus to fall into the government safety net. Read story

Ambrose: Seattle experiment of police-free zone shows cops are needed

July 12, 2020, 6:01am Columns

Let’s get rid of cops, defund them, at least make them less active, deplete their ranks and agree they suffer from systemic racism bred into their modes of behavior, always acting as if to be Black is to be guilty. Read story

Other Papers Say: Court makes timely ruling on faithless electors

July 12, 2020, 6:01am Columns

Unlike what happened in December 2016, there will be no Electoral College presidential votes this year for Faith Spotted Eagle emanating from the Washington state delegation. Not after the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling Monday affirming the power of states to compel electors to vote for the candidate their state… Read story

Local View: Systemic racism exists here

July 12, 2020, 6:01am Columns

More than 50 years after the conclusion of the 1968 Kerner Commission that the United States was “moving toward two societies, one Black, one white, separate and unequal,” we must consider some sobering statistics. Read story