June 1, 2024, 6:02am Columns
He apologized. Admittedly, it’s not as interesting as talking about Bill Walton’s basketball exploits. And it’s not as interesting as the avalanche of stories about Walton’s humanity, which paint colorful portraits of a multihued personality who perpetually found joy in life and joy in those around him. Read story
June 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
At least 18 states don’t allow people to go about their streets wearing pointed Ku Klux Klan hoods. The white costumes serve the double purpose of racial intimidation and hiding the identities of the creeps inside them. Most of those anti-masking laws were passed early last century in response to… Read story
June 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Dwindling mountain snowpack, emergency-level drought conditions, predictions of a hot summer — the warning lights on the 2024 wildfire season are flashing red. This perennial threat requires facing a new reality, particularly among those west of the Cascade Mountains: hotter, drier conditions mean a spark can lead to a catastrophic… Read story
June 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Election-year proposals to liberalize marijuana laws aim to entice support from young voters. Yet greater latitude for growing, selling and consuming pot, and downplaying its dangers, would seriously harm young people and our communities. Read story
June 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records in New York is an ignoble first. No former president has ever been tried, much less found guilty, for felonies before. But Trump’s new status as a convicted felon probably won’t significantly affect his chances of winning… Read story
June 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As the election is getting closer, Donald Trump is sounding nuttier. Read story
May 30, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Somehow the undesired appears to have become the inevitable. Read story
May 29, 2024, 6:01am Columns
When reports of an upside-down flag flying in the yard of a Supreme Court justice hit the news last week, it reinforced a lesson learned 35 years ago from a local controversy. Read story
May 28, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Do sweeps of homeless encampments work? Or, as one aid worker put it, do they mostly scatter vulnerable people in “diaspora of misery”? Read story
May 27, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Rape is a well-documented tool of war. So it’s hard for me to understand the raging controversy over whether Hamas terrorists who killed more than 1,100 Israelis on Oct. 7 also inflicted rape and other sexual crimes on their victims as a “practice.” Read story
