January 16, 2019, 6:03am Columns
The Legislature is meeting 300 miles away from Spokane, but it may be easier than ever to keep tabs on what lawmakers are doing for — or to — you, at least for one aspect of the often hard-to-follow process. Read story
January 15, 2019, 6:01am Columns
The gift that keeps on giving for President Donald Trump is that his fiercest critics on the left are no paragons of virtue. Read story
January 14, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Haven’t we seen this movie before? Read story
January 13, 2019, 6:02am Columns
If we could start over, things would be different. Read story
January 13, 2019, 6:01am Columns
On the day Donald Trump used the Oval Office to say the nation is in crisis from people trying to enter the United States illegally, he sent a fundraising letter to supporters asking them to give him $500,000 in one day. Read story
January 13, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Armin-Paulus Hampel, a former journalist and commentator who now is a member of the Bundestag, is ebullient, affable, opinionated, voluble and excellent company at lunch. But because his party is Alternative for Germany, one wonders whether he is representative of it, and whether he is as congenial politically as he… Read story
January 13, 2019, 6:01am Columns
As lawmakers gather in Olympia for the 2019 legislative session, they must write the next state budget, weighing many competing and important demands in the process. Read story
January 13, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Everyone who makes the trip to and from work every day knows how much more congested the roads in the Portland-Vancouver area are compared to just a few years ago. No matter if your travels take you south to Portland, west to Hillsboro, east to Gresham or north to home,… Read story
January 12, 2019, 6:01am Columns
He shuts down the government, maybe for “years.” He wants a wall that is “transparent,” then concrete, then slatted, then steel. One moment he’s leaving Syria, the next he isn’t. He’s watching too much TV and yelling at everyone. Read story
January 11, 2019, 6:01am Columns
‘Our government may at some time be in the hands of a bad man. When in the hands of a good man it is all well enough. … We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe.” Read story
