State lawmakers outdid themselves this year in the assortment of ways they chose to extract more bucks from you, your…
Like it or not, people die. At some point, we may even get the chance to consider our own deaths….
This month’s selection of a new speaker for the state House of Representatives may be the year’s most important contest…
When my parents graduated from high school in 1936, a college education was too expensive for the son of a…
It’s the season of long days, with increasing warmth, sunshine – and snowmelt in the Dungeness River.
According to every story I have heard about it, the female practice of holding our stomachs in and breathing from…
During the 1992 presidential campaign, then-candidate Bill Clinton famously intoned, “I feel your pain,” reassuring voters he understood what they…
June 6, 2019, the 75th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, brought together leaders of the United States and European…
How can we have civil conversations when it seems almost any discussion of any subject can quickly degenerate into name…
As Gov. Jay Inslee prepared to launch his campaign for president earlier this year, he had a request of three…
I don’t know how you can be against clean water, but some of the industries in our state are.
I am a dinosaur in the equal rights arena, having grown up in the sixties (that’s 1960s, to you smart-alecks…
Every town, no matter how straight-laced, has a few odd balls who do not fit into the conventional mold. My…
