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Westneat: Cities ‘move to the right’

April 6, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Seattle’s big sister, our liberal soul mate San Francisco, seems to be going through an identity crisis. Read story

Donnelly: Utility must make reliability, affordability priorities

April 6, 2024, 6:01am Columns

January’s cold storm brought an historic peak electricity demand for Clark Public Utilities. The system needed some 200 megawatts more than the planned-for peak requirement, roughly a 20 percent shortfall. Covering the need in the short-term electricity market was expensive. Out-of-region supplies were limited and buyer competition was fierce. Read story

Harrop: Losing Obamacare would suck

April 6, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Donald Trump last week posted an item on Truth Social that broke new ground for incoherence. What got his fingers fumbling on the keyboard was Joe Biden’s being out in the country warning Americans that another presidential term for Trump would cost them their health care. Read story

Other Papers Say: Bar exam alternatives level field

April 6, 2024, 6:01am Columns

For first time in state history lawyers won’t be required to take the state bar exam to show competency to earn a law license. Washington joins Oregon as the only two states with alternatives to the bar exam. Read story

Camden: Election worker threats undeniable

April 3, 2024, 6:03am Columns

Not sure if it’s a sign of the times or just of my age, but Washington has a new law that would have seemed unnecessary when I began covering politics and elections four decades ago. Read story

Estrich: A license to lie in America

April 2, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Where does a lawyer draw the line between zealous advocacy of a client’s cause and using his standing as a lawyer as a license to lie? A California State Bar judge ruled last week that former Chapman Law School Dean John Eastman crossed that line in his representation of Donald… Read story

Other Papers Say: Face up to tech in education

April 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns

The latest large-scale analysis of remote learning and its effects on student achievement underscores what every parent saw with devastating clarity during the pandemic: Children need human connection to thrive. Read story

Schrager: Americans’ unhealthy relationship with risk is madness

April 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Like many Americans, I love March Madness. I still consider the night of March 22, 1990, when my local college team won one of the greatest victories in NCAA basketball tournament history, one of the most exciting moments of my life. Of course, a strong emotional attachment to a particular… Read story

Calmes: It’s a fact: House GOP is the worst

April 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns

More than halfway through the current two-year Congress, the “lawmakers” there bring to mind the old schoolyard quip about slacker students: They’re really good at recess. Read story

Rubin: ISIS and GOP play into Putin’s hands

April 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Vladimir Putin and his intelligence agencies are blaming a recent hideous ISIS terror attack on a concert venue near Moscow on — you guessed it — Ukraine, the U.S. and Great Britain. Read story