April 15, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Twice-failed Southwest Washington congressional candidate Joe Kent appears set to join the Trump administration as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Based in McLean, Va., it’s a 2,800-mile drive from Clark County. Read story
March 22, 2025, 6:02am Columns
Considering Vancouver is one of the oldest cities in the Pacific Northwest, it has very few historical commercial buildings. So it’s sad to see the old Schofield Building on the corner of Sixth and Main streets being dismantled, brick by historic brick. Read story
February 1, 2025, 6:10am Clark County News
After almost seven years of writing this column, this is my last one. I’m retiring as editor of The Columbian and Columbian.com as of Monday. Read story
January 25, 2025, 6:10am Clark County News
With the 2025 legislative session underway, already almost 1,000 bills have been filed, and if the trend holds, another 1,000 will be filed before the 105-day session ends. Read story
January 18, 2025, 6:10am Clark County News
It’s well documented that Donald Trump is no friend to the news media, but could his second term boost U.S. journalism? Read story
January 11, 2025, 6:09am Clark County News
As I mentioned last week, we are in the process of combining the Camas-Washougal Post-Record’s two-person news staff with The Columbian’s 14-member local news team in an effort to improve both papers. This week the effort took physical shape as we rearranged some of the newsroom furniture. Read story
January 4, 2025, 6:10am Clark County News
As I am fond of telling anyone who will listen, The Columbian is a family-owned small business, not part of a corporate newspaper chain like The Oregonian is. But there is one asterisk. Read story
January 3, 2025, 6:05am Clark County News
Recently, Ronald Clement, who lives in Vancouver’s Fishers Creek neighborhood, asked The Columbian, “What do the different street identifiers mean, e.g., court, avenue, street, lane, circle, etc.?” Read story
December 28, 2024, 6:09am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
Today’s the day we present our top stories of the year to our readers. As I mentioned in a column earlier this month, we’re doing the project differently this year. Rather than have our news staff vote on the stories we think were most important, we are listing the local… Read story
December 21, 2024, 6:09am Clark County News
With a week to go until Christmas Eve, I looked to see how much press we’ve given Santa Claus this year. Read story
