When the federal government approved the $600 stimulus payment for most Americans as part the $900 billion Coronavirus Relief Act in…
The U.S. Senate must retain the filibuster.
The goal of sentencing to jail those who break the law is rehabilitation, which is why the Walla Walla County Corrections Department…
Standardized testing in public schools has been controversial in Washington state for 30 years.
It’s long been said that free speech isn’t free.
While improving Washington state’s transportation infrastructure must be a priority for the state and its Legislature, enacting the …
Monday’s pop-up COVID-19 vaccination event at Walla Walla University was a success given that 827 people were administered their fir…
Washington state’s attorney general and secretary of state, Bob Ferguson and Kim Wyman, were elected as a Democrat and a Republican …
Distance learning has been extremely difficult on many students and their families.
The state Legislature will have more on its plate than COVID-19 in the next 100 days or so.
The sooner COVID-19 vaccines can be distributed — and put into arms — the better it will be for all. Vaccination is critical to achi…
“You can pay me now or pay me later.”
As the state Legislature convened in Olympia (and on Zoom) Monday — with the critical task of approving a two-year state budget topp…
Last week 14 passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., to Seattle refused to wear masks to protect others from …
Gov. Jay Inslee’s decision to lump Walla Walla and Columbia counties with Benton, Franklin, Yakima and Kittitas counties in the Sout…
When the state Legislature goes into session Monday in Olympia the echoes off the marble walls of the Capitol will be missing — and …
Some Republicans in Congress — including 5th Congressional District Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers – dishonored themselves and, worse, …
Our collective history is something that must be preserved so new generations can fully understand the foundation their lives were b…
Now that a new decade is underway, and the 2020 Census is complete, the process of redrawing congressional and legislative boundarie…
The state Legislature made a bipartisan decision last spring that will save lives over the next two years. Lawmakers imposed a $100 …
As we all know too well, 2020 was a mess. And that was certainly reflected in the way state and local governments had to patch their…
The politics of vaccination — as in who is at the front of the line to get a COVID-19 vaccine — is very real.
When President Trump signed the COVID-19 relief package and the omnibus (as in everything but the kitchen sink) spending bill over t…
Gov. Jay Inslee’s 2021-2023 proposed state budget is ambitious.
The Seattle Seahawks did more than defeat the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, they gave folks living in the Pacific Northwest an opportu…
The educational and emotional toll distance learning is taking on students (and their families) is not a life-and-death matter in th…
The federal COVID-19 relief legislation approved last week by Congress is essential to help local business survive until the pandemi…
This famous editorial, ‘Is There a Santa Claus?’ first appeared in The New York Sun on Sept. 21, 1897. It was written by Francis Pharcellus Church.
The coronavirus relief package approved by Congress on Monday was cobbled together through compromise, so it’s a given that nobody w…
Washington state’s ban on single-use plastic bags at stores has been delayed at least a month for some good reasons.
Gov. Jay Inslee last week proposed an income tax.
It’s long been said that actions speak louder than words.
Gov. Jay Inslee has been taking heat for what many folks perceive as overly rigid restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be hitting those who earn — or earned, when they had jobs — the lowest salarie…
