July 3, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The Northwest Progressive Institute, a liberal group, thinks Washington voters would support having their Legislature in session all year. Read story
July 2, 2024, 6:01am Columns
In the 1981 film “History of the World, Part 1,” Moses, played by director Mel Brooks, descends from Mount Sinai bearing three stone tablets engraved with the Fifteen Commandments that convey the laws of God to man. Read story
July 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The first political ads of the year have been released into the wild, and the early reviews are that it’s looking to be a Republican year. Read story
July 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Before heading off to North Korea recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a “peace” offering to Ukraine. Read story
July 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Things got violent outside a Los Angeles orthodox synagogue last week, leading the mayor at a press conference to say that a ban on wearing masks to such protests should be considered. A number of the pro-Palestinian protesters, who blocked entrance to the synagogue and ended up in fistfights and… Read story
July 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
There’s good debt, and there’s bad debt. Good debt is a $465 million government loan for your fledgling electric-car company that helps it become the world’s biggest automaker. Bad debt is maxing out your credit cards to buy cartoon apes in 2022. Read story
July 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
For the second time in two years, an abortion-related decision from the Supreme Court has appeared before its due date. Unlike the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, leaked by a person or persons still unknown, the latest case, about Idaho’s abortion ban, got out by accident when someone at… Read story
July 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
There were many firsts attending Thursday night’s mud wrestle between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. It was the earliest presidential debate in history. The first between two candidates of such a ripe age. The only one ever pitting the occupant of the Oval Office against the man he ousted from… Read story
June 29, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The Columbian’s June 25 editorial (“Coordination crucial for Vancouver Lake’s future”) hit the key issue: Coordination among the primary stakeholders — Clark County, the city of Vancouver, the Port of Vancouver and, importantly, the Cowlitz Tribe, which was here in the beginning and is a valuable community partner. Read story
June 29, 2024, 6:01am Columns
After two years of bitter congressional conflict, both parties are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in hopes of gaining working majorities in next year’s session. But it’s a long shot — for both. More probably, 2025 will again see divisions in both houses so slender that the party winning… Read story
