January 10, 2019, 6:01am Columns
I’m betraying no secrets by observing that the government shutdown provides a window of opportunity for identity and electronic theft. Trust me, the crooks already know this. And, unfortunately, so do I. Read story
January 9, 2019, 6:01am Columns
A whole year stretches before us, blank as a reporter’s notebook in the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Instead of filling space by looking back, we peek ahead, calling up images in the crystal ball with the chant of Bullwinkle the Moose: Read story
January 8, 2019, 6:01am Columns
I don’t think it was a coincidence that staff who worked for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sometimes ended up standing in front of me when I attended press events she held in San Francisco, when I worked for a local paper. Read story
January 7, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Should Donald Trump be impeached? Read story
January 6, 2019, 6:02am Columns
Mom would be happy. For me, for her grandson, for the essential role she played in a memorable family adventure. Read story
January 6, 2019, 6:01am Columns
If Republicans have a lick of sense, they are alarmed by a recent sign of intelligent life in the other party. The sign is the election by Democrats in the House of Representatives of Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos as chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. In November, she won… Read story
January 6, 2019, 6:01am Columns
The right can’t stop talking about the incoming youngest member of the House, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The left isn’t much better. Read story
January 6, 2019, 6:01am Columns
A waste of money. That’s how a few partisans in our regional transportation debate already dismiss a proposed passenger ferry system to connect Vancouver with Portland. It’s hard to deny the idea has challenges. But most of the prominent business leaders attending a mid-December gathering hosted by ferry developers were… Read story
January 6, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Some of you readers almost surely hate Fox News. But you know something? It isn’t really so bad. It counterbalances the anti-Trump, leftist, overreaching, sometimes hysterical bias afflicting too much of what too many of its TV competitors offer. And, even without Charles Krauthammer, much of it is pretty darned… Read story
January 6, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Entering the third week of a federal government shutdown, it’s easy to see why Americans are disgusted with politicians. The president and Democratic congressional leaders are in a standoff over a border wall, so they’re shutting down national parks, withholding paychecks for the Coast Guard, and screwing up people’s home… Read story
