April 6, 2024, 6:01am Columns
January’s cold storm brought an historic peak electricity demand for Clark Public Utilities. The system needed some 200 megawatts more than the planned-for peak requirement, roughly a 20 percent shortfall. Covering the need in the short-term electricity market was expensive. Out-of-region supplies were limited and buyer competition was fierce. Read story
April 6, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Donald Trump last week posted an item on Truth Social that broke new ground for incoherence. What got his fingers fumbling on the keyboard was Joe Biden’s being out in the country warning Americans that another presidential term for Trump would cost them their health care. Read story
April 6, 2024, 6:01am Columns
For first time in state history lawyers won’t be required to take the state bar exam to show competency to earn a law license. Washington joins Oregon as the only two states with alternatives to the bar exam. Read story
April 3, 2024, 6:03am Columns
Not sure if it’s a sign of the times or just of my age, but Washington has a new law that would have seemed unnecessary when I began covering politics and elections four decades ago. Read story
April 2, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Where does a lawyer draw the line between zealous advocacy of a client’s cause and using his standing as a lawyer as a license to lie? A California State Bar judge ruled last week that former Chapman Law School Dean John Eastman crossed that line in his representation of Donald… Read story
April 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The latest large-scale analysis of remote learning and its effects on student achievement underscores what every parent saw with devastating clarity during the pandemic: Children need human connection to thrive. Read story
April 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Like many Americans, I love March Madness. I still consider the night of March 22, 1990, when my local college team won one of the greatest victories in NCAA basketball tournament history, one of the most exciting moments of my life. Of course, a strong emotional attachment to a particular… Read story
April 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
More than halfway through the current two-year Congress, the “lawmakers” there bring to mind the old schoolyard quip about slacker students: They’re really good at recess. Read story
April 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Vladimir Putin and his intelligence agencies are blaming a recent hideous ISIS terror attack on a concert venue near Moscow on — you guessed it — Ukraine, the U.S. and Great Britain. Read story
April 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
About a year ago, Bob Ferguson made what looked at the time to be a political blunder. Read story
