Mapes lovingly lays out how old growth forests sustain fish runs — holding soil and cooling waters — while salmon carry nutrients in from the sea.

I suggest my party narrow its focus to removing barriers both in what we talk about and in the proposals we espouse.

My main suggestion is to steal some thunder from the Republicans and drifting voters by daring to embrace some populist ideas, rather than softening some core beliefs.

The author came to believe that to find peace, she’d have to return home and face her ghosts. Just months past her 30th birthday, she began her emotional expedition into her family’s past. It took Tessa nearly ten years to research and tell the story of her family’s three generations.

Leavitt: "The President said it. Therefore, it’s common sense and above the law."

Upon entering the University of Washington Anderson's natural speed and athletic ability impressed the famous track and field coach Clarence S. "Hec" Edmondson. 

The absence of class bias in the Italian education system leads to an overall social structure that involves less class-based distinctions in the general population.

We sensed what was happening but did not rise to reject an awful Biden-Trump choice. It did not have to be so.

This is not a Democrat-and-Republican issue. It’s about power. The inner circle around the president — the group that in the Biden White House was dubbed "the Politburo" — do not serve the public. They serve him.

These are charities that formed to engage the scandalous scale of today’s hunger problem. Working with insightful architects, both organizations have been able to build transformative facilities.

Ukraine’s audacious attack on Russia’s strategic bomber force, knocking out at least a third of the sophisticated planes slaughtering Ukrainian civilians, may not flip...

As Trump’s populist base learns the details of his “Big Beautiful Bill,” Republican members of Congress will face consequences.

Like a diamond in the rough, the plant brings with it not only its awesome past history but an imagined present.

Dan Evans could win statewide elections, which today’s MAGA Republicans have yet to do. The “Drill, baby, Drill” party of Trump denies global warming and would despoil the land -- not a winning formula in the Evergreen State.

I know you have plenty of community groups that look after people and places on the wet side of the mountains, but thought I would chronicle a few of ours, if nothing else to encourage you to join in and/or thank your own doers of good community deeds.

I don’t know that we solved any of the world’s problems as we walked and talked, but we did at least for a time solve the modern problem of living in a high-tech, too much information, too much sitting culture.

Newspaper people talk a lot to people who stick their necks out, and Bert stuck his neck out further than most.

Pruning regulation and felling trees on the scale that the Trump orders contemplate won’t be a slam-dunk. The path to more logging runs through a tangled thicket of laws and regulations.

“I’ve drawn a pretty clear line in the sand” in dealing with Ottawa, says Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith. One problem: it’s more of a movable wish list than a line. And she’s been on both sides of the line.

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” that Donald Trump got the House to pass is 1,116 pages big, but scarcely beautiful. It hurts lower income...

Trump’s selective aim at Harvard is taken almost directly from the Nazi playbook’s attack on Frankfurt University very short weeks after Hitler took power in Germany in January 1933.

Here’s the truth: the Democratic Party has failed us. It has failed itself. They need to own it, to repent, and come up with a real agenda in place of “we’re not Trump.”

It is into this sensuous food era that Laurie Woolever takes us with her memoir. An aspiring food writer, she takes a job co-authoring a cookbook with celebrity chef/bad boy Mario Batali.

The loneliest bench in the city is firmly fixed on the Pioneer Square Sounder platform. It can not see the train.

Despite the incredible healing efforts of Mandela, Bishop Tutu, and others, the various outrages of apartheid -- many sickeningly ruthless and violent -- as well as the remaining vast economic inequality between white and Black South Africans, all these factors still engender hatreds.

Wilson gets 36 percent in the poll, running stronger among younger voters and millennials. Harrell posts 33 percent, running strong with Baby Boomers.

Most importantly, Gov. Ferguson didn’t veto any significant part of the budget package and force lawmakers back to Olympia for a deeper round of cuts to both spending and taxes. In fact, he didn’t veto anything of real consequence.

Putin is a master at delay-and-distract, the tactical maneuvering that has carried him through more than 11 years of an internationally condemned invasion of a peaceful and sovereign neighbor.

Pope Leo declared: “No one is exempted from striving to ensure respect for the dignity of every person, especially the most frail and vulnerable, from the unborn to the elderly, from the sick to the unemployed, citizens and immigrants alike.”

Allegedly based on several characters from his hometown of Weston, Oregon -- the fictional town in Oregon Detour was called "Creston" -- the book caused something of a scandal in Oregon.