April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
‘I’m very pro-choice,” Donald Trump said in 1999, when he first flirted with the idea of running for president. “Just very briefly, I’m pro-life,” he announced at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2011. In 2016, campaigning for the support of anti-abortion leaders, he promised to appoint judges who would… Read story
April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Two murders in Brentwood? That was unusual, I thought, as word filtered through the newsroom on a Monday afternoon in June 1994 that two people were found dead in the upscale neighborhood — and one of them was Nicole Brown Simpson, the former wife of O.J. Simpson. The other victim… Read story
April 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
When a local judge tossed out a new gun control law the other day, it wasn’t because it was poorly written, or that it would have really curtailed anyone from shooting guns. Read story
April 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Unity. It is an ideal enshrined in America’s founding documents, and the mantra that held our country together through foreign wars and civil unrest. This election cycle, the Republican Party of Washington has taken the familiar theme of unity to new extremes. Read story
April 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
A recent spate of horrendous collisions and nose-thumbing at rules should prompt serious thinking around the laudable state and local goals of no traffic deaths in six years. Read story
April 11, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Barack Obama got it right. He refused to be held captive to his party’s left wing. Read story
April 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Our old friend-enemy “Obamacare” is back in the news. Remember the supposed job-killing, freedom-smothering health policy we fought over like gladiators for years? Read story
April 8, 2024, 6:03am Columns
The Puget Sound region has an unusually high population of workers with college degrees, most attracted by the tech industry. Read story
April 8, 2024, 6:01am Columns
At first blush, the idea that parents of adult college students would hire a private security force to patrol areas around the campus of a public university seems like the ne plus ultra of helicopter parenting. Read story
April 8, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Americans’ collective judgment is so clouded by hyperpartisan lenses that we are missing a potential national security threat right before our very eyes. Read story
