What rubs salt in the wound of American pride in its democratic system is the mockery from China: the fact that netizens of the one-party authoritarian state are laughing over the debacle.

Polls showed that an unnamed Democrat could beat Trump, but they also consistently show that people don’t approve of Biden’s performance and think he’s too old to be President and is a weak leader. He had one chance Thursday to demonstrate all that was mistaken—and he utterly failed to do it.

The Democrats should embrace this opportunity to produce a splendid, news-dominating American pageant. For once, horse race coverage will actually be more important than issues coverage. With the nominee unknown, Putin and Trump will have a hard time targeting or strategizing.

When the nation’s voters – many millions of them – tuned in to last night’s debate, what they first heard was the nation’s president, an aging white man struggling with a mouth full of cotton.

While owners of vacation homes and vacation rentals do contribute something to local businesses, they aren’t much invested in the community via schools, churches, other civic groups or volunteerism. They are a new kind of “extractive” industry.

Biden recovered later in the debate, but not before viewers were given ample reason to worry about an 81-year incumbent.

This “debate” was incredibly sad. Sad to watch Joe Biden, like a fighter well beyond his prime, taking blow after blow. Always on his heels. Always reactive.

If Trump lied more egregiously than Biden, and he did, Biden piled up his share of political fibs.

Biden’s gravely disappointing performance allowed Trump to avoid answering vital questions.

Overall, this whole exercise proved to be a vindication of what the so called "double haters" believe: this matchup is a disaster for the country. 

I was pleasantly surprised (starting from very low expectations) how much he recalled and how cogently he recited it. The downside to all the prepping is too much detail and no zingers.

Compared to Trump he was a relative paragon of accuracy, truth, context, and detail.

The Boldt Decision of 1974 ranks up there in judicial boldness with the Supremes' decisions about civil rights, school integration, old-growth protection, and voting rights. It was reflective of an age of progressive judicial activism, now long gone.

Some of the contributions reflect an artful shuffle of funds.

Over the years, she’s shed light on the self-entitled billionaires, chronicled the triumphs and failures, and roasted an industry that has often gone off the rails.

Chief Sealth (Seattle), who reluctantly gave his name to a future Puget Sound metropolis, may have been right when he warned of his people's spirits hovering among today's busy city dwellers.

The Kent/MGP race has wider implications. As pointed out by Andrew Villeneuve, executive director of Northwest Progressive Institute, the path to controlling Congress passes through the Pacific Northwest.

Rural America is a long way from Silicon Valley – or any major metro. The employment offered in those areas is pretty much non-existent in rural communities. So, too, the large employment and pay of government centers. 

The rooms above Homan’s, with a shaving sink in each one and the bathroom down the hall, have been converted into luxury hotel rentals.

The most interesting material is not about how these three women teamed up and caught the person tormenting them, but how—and for how long—they enthusiastically submitted to their digitally-delivered torture.

Curation and intentionality become paramount when you’re competing on quality, which is what Red Mountain’s reputation is built upon.

Most young males who resort to gun violence, join gangs, and commit other crimes come from broken homes that lack good male role models, especially fathers.

The case of journalism presents in magnified form a predicament that can be observed in many socially important jobs like teaching, nursing, and caretaking, which suffer from similar issues of recruitment, burnout, and retention. 

Feeling raptorous? Time to apply for witless protection.

Death is one of life’s “thin places,” where the boundary between the temporal and the eternal becomes thin, even luminous.

What is known is the convulsion is the result of the rapid onset of professionalization of college athletics.

If Trump is elected, the Libertarian Party’s future independence from either major party may vanish and could become more subservient to the Republican’s right-wing agenda.

The leak of more than a quarter million gallons of gasoline and resulting explosion and fire shook Bellingham and its environment. The disaster was compounded by the deaths of two boys and a young man who had been at Whatcom Creek that day.

What should we think about these transactions between consenting adults? Paying a person not to talk is not, in itself, unlawful. I can think of some names for Daniels’ opportunism. But nobody cares what she did.

Washington offers high school students multiple options for alternative learning experiences (ALE).