August 15, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Two good writers presented opposing opinions in the New York Times last week concerning this important question: Should former president Donald Trump’s potential trial or trials — particularly for his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election — be televised? Read story
August 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
With Congress on its summer recess, we’ve gotten a bit of a break from Republicans’ ad nauseam complaints that Donald Trump is a victim of a “two-tier system of justice” — one that goes after him and others in their party, the other favoring Democrats, who supposedly run the whole… Read story
August 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Is the current rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations really the result of people moving indoors to enjoy air conditioning? Experts and journalists often make this assumption when they’re quoted in the media about the virus’s small summer “waves” or “surges” (which, this year, is really more like a small uptick). Similarly,… Read story
August 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
America’s political scribes would do us a favor if they would drop the word “storied” before the name “Kennedy.” America does not have families that are royal, storied or otherwise special because of the circumstances of members’ birth. Or it shouldn’t. Read story
August 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Inflation is receding, unemployment is at or near record lows, U.S. growth continues at a solid pace … and Americans are deeply pessimistic about the economy. More than half say it is getting worse, while an additional 28 percent say it is not getting better. Just 37 percent of Americans… Read story
August 12, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The decision of the United States Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overruling Roe v. Wade may be the best worst thing to happen to Democratic politics in recent years. It is moving voters, and if there was any doubt of that, look at the results in… Read story
August 12, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Replacing the Interstate 5 Bridge over the Columbia River has been a top priority of communities in Washington and Oregon for years. Read story
August 12, 2023, 6:01am Columns
There’s one smidgen of good news for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Democrats, who have been getting roasted all this hot summer over the state’s sizzling gas prices. Read story
August 12, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Donald Trump’s lawyers have already begun sounding out the former president’s defense to charges that he tried to subvert the will of voters and prevent the peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden. Read story
August 12, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The U.S. Senate’s powerful appropriations chair “strongly” supports a new tax proposal to help save local news outlets. Read story
