February 7, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The Legislature hit the midpoint of its 60-day session Tuesday. While it’s too early to say for sure what it will do, it is possible to point to a few things that it won’t do. Read story
February 6, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The gender gap is growing. Read story
February 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Great stuff is sometimes left in the notebook after stories are filed. That was the case after a recent column about the urgent need for Congress to help save local journalism. Read story
February 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
What were United Nations employees doing on Oct. 7? Read story
February 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Over the holidays, families in our community faced canceled surgeries that may persist well into this year due to a shortage of anesthesiologists. Not only is this stressful for families, but delaying surgeries often leads to more expensive and urgent care needs. Read story
February 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
I have discovered many wonderful books, mostly in the young adult category, by reading news stories about what’s being banned in public schools these days: “Gender Queer,” a riveting, upsetting graphic novel about the nonbinary author’s journey of self-discovery; “Dear Martin,” in which a Black teenager who is wrongfully arrested… Read story
February 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Donald Trump has called on Republicans to kill a bipartisan deal that would give the president emergency powers to shut down the border when illegal crossings get out of hand. He’s thus helped President Joe Biden turn one of his political liabilities into a strength. Read story
February 3, 2024, 6:03am Columns
Anyone who wonders why Congress hasn’t passed immigration legislation for decades need only look at the political shenanigans surrounding the current bipartisan Senate effort to cope with the issue. Read story
February 3, 2024, 6:03am Columns
Midway through one of the biggest legislative hearings so far this session in Olympia — which was on guns, naturally — a witness hit on what promises to be the theme of the year in politics. Read story
February 3, 2024, 6:03am Columns
It took roughly two minutes for 18 million tons of clay, sand and till to envelop part of the Stillaguamish Valley on March 22, 2014, killing 43 people and burying an entire neighborhood. Even now, after almost a decade has passed since the Oso Landslide, the risks of a similar… Read story
