April 16, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Perhaps you can imagine punishments more to be feared than a lengthy prison sentence, but in a country that proscribes cruel and unusual punishment — except the death penalty — the only thing I can think of that would be worse than confinement in prison is confinement as the result… Read story
April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The life and death of Charles Daniel at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma should be investigated not only by detention center officials, but by an agency that’s not linked to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read story
April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
At a 1962 Massachusetts Senate debate, challenger Edward McCormack told his rival, the youthful future Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy, that, “if his name was Edward Moore, with his qualifications … your candidacy would be a joke.” Read story
April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Today is Americans’ favorite day — April 15, Tax Day! In the land of “No taxation without representation,” we Americans throw a fit over how much we fork over to the government, which taps into related complaints over government waste, budget deficits and more. Read story
April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
How grotesque to watch long-term U.S. security interests hang on the outcome of a political battle between the Hamlet-like speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and vengeful MAGA conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene. Read story
April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
‘I’m very pro-choice,” Donald Trump said in 1999, when he first flirted with the idea of running for president. “Just very briefly, I’m pro-life,” he announced at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2011. In 2016, campaigning for the support of anti-abortion leaders, he promised to appoint judges who would… Read story
April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Two murders in Brentwood? That was unusual, I thought, as word filtered through the newsroom on a Monday afternoon in June 1994 that two people were found dead in the upscale neighborhood — and one of them was Nicole Brown Simpson, the former wife of O.J. Simpson. The other victim… Read story
April 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
When a local judge tossed out a new gun control law the other day, it wasn’t because it was poorly written, or that it would have really curtailed anyone from shooting guns. Read story
April 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Unity. It is an ideal enshrined in America’s founding documents, and the mantra that held our country together through foreign wars and civil unrest. This election cycle, the Republican Party of Washington has taken the familiar theme of unity to new extremes. Read story
April 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
A recent spate of horrendous collisions and nose-thumbing at rules should prompt serious thinking around the laudable state and local goals of no traffic deaths in six years. Read story
