March 2, 2024, 6:05am Clark County News
If you’re reading this, I am on a cruise! Read story
February 24, 2024, 6:03am Clark County News
On a recent Wednesday, I was so excited to come to work, I could hardly sleep the night before. Read story
February 17, 2024, 6:05am Clark County News
After Erin Middlewood took charge of our content following our reorganization last fall, one of the first things she did was change the format of the Monday morning staff meeting. It now includes more training and feedback, and for the first time our two features reporters, Monika Spykerman and Scott… Read story
February 10, 2024, 6:07am Clark County News
Have you noticed an old byline in The Columbian’s pages again? We recently welcomed back Dylan Jefferies, who was with us from November 2021 through November 2022. That was a difficult and stressful period for everyone, and especially for journalists. Dylan started as our health reporter and was in the… Read story
February 3, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News
After a week of hearing from readers, I am hopeful that our crossword puzzle problem has a solution. Read story
January 27, 2024, 6:03am Clark County News
At the bottom of last week’s column, I mentioned that The Daily Commuter crossword puzzle authored by a Spokane woman named Jacqueline E. Mathews seemed to have a fill-in author. Read story
January 20, 2024, 6:06am Clark County News
One of the newsroom’s New Year’s resolutions is to host more community events. We’ve held an annual Economic Forecast event for decades, and last year started what we hope will be an ongoing series of Columbian Conversations, where an invited panel discusses an important community issue, with the goal of… Read story
January 13, 2024, 6:08am Clark County News
I’ve had a few different careers but most of my 40 years on the job have been spent in the newspaper industry. Read story
January 6, 2024, 6:02am Clark County News
One of our newsroom traditions at The Columbian is to select our top local stories of the year, and use that to lead our big weekend edition closest to the end of the year. This year, that happened to be Saturday, Dec. 28. Read story
December 30, 2023, 6:00am Clark County News
Last week, I shared some predictions for 2024 from the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. I’m sharing a few more today. I edited them for length; if you want to read them in their original form, or browse the many more predictions, visit www.niemanlab.org. Read story
