June 16, 2023, 6:01am Columns
This is hardly a scientific sampling, but a high school teacher in the Dallas area tells me that her students have two big worries. Read story
June 15, 2023, 6:01am Columns
For a while last week, former Vice President Mike Pence seemed to be hitting the 2024 presidential campaign trail with a new determination to travel a bold, principled and unswerving path that would set him apart from the Republican presidential pack. Read story
June 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
President Joe Biden, eager to get more tax money to pay for the faults of others along with his own disastrously irresponsible, inflationary overspending, has said that American billionaires have a tax rate of just 8 percent. Read story
June 13, 2023, 6:01am Columns
America is getting up in years. Well, we’re still toddlers compared to international ancients such as Iran (founded 3200 B.C.) and Egypt (3100 B.C.). But if we survive until July 4, 2026, our nation will reach the venerable age of 250 years. Read story
June 12, 2023, 6:01am Columns
After nearly 50 years in the business, local journalism hero Les Zaitz is ready to retire and lean back into his hammock. But like scores of rural and small-town newspaper publishers across the United States, Zaitz faces an uphill battle to find a buyer for his labor of love, the… Read story
June 12, 2023, 6:01am Columns
My neighborhood is full of broken windows. That’s a term of art in policing to describe the disorder that breeds more disorder. It includes homelessness and graffiti, quality-of-life crimes like simple assault and public drunkenness, and drug crimes that often lead to more serious crimes and make law-abiding citizens afraid… Read story
June 11, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Six years ago this September, the Eagle Creek Fire burned nearly 50,000 acres in and adjacent to the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Ninety percent of the fire burned within the Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness Area, also starting fires in Washington. Read story
June 11, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Maybe the story of the Sammamish planning commissioner was a one-off. Perhaps it was just an aberrant eruption of homophobia, made more bizarre because it came right after a dry discussion on stormwater codes. Read story
June 10, 2023, 6:02am Columns
It might be difficult to imagine a far-right fire-and-brimstone preacher having an influence on politics in deep-blue Washington. But it happened. Read story
June 10, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Democratic Party politics around here, which is to say all politics of late, has been a bit like the old Soviet Politburo. You wait your turn for this post or that, and then the whole party gets in line. Read story
