Over the next ten years, House Our Neighbors projects that (assuming Initiative 137 passes) social housing will spend $500 million in new taxes and will only build 60 apartments for homeless people. The other 1,940 apartments will be for people with higher incomes. 

Given the rising cost and toll of dead and seriously injured, estimated by British military intelligence to be 500,000, why is Putin trying to provoke a wider conflict with provocations against NATO-allied neighbors and the United States? 

This book goes far beyond discussions of political policies and rights. There is poetry, haiku, fiction, and nonfiction reminiscences by the imprisoned that highlight the shock and dislocation experienced by people in human, often oddly mundane, terms.

"Making wine is easy, selling it and selling it at a profit are the hard parts.”

The Democrats know the spot Reichert is in. Ferguson is a chess master setting a trap for his presumed foe.

Improvisation in classical music is a deceptive term. The implication is of a spontaneous, invented, form of performing. Yet it has, like composed music, building blocks that are taught to young performers and budding composers.

God spaketh: "America shall become a desolate land where truth has no meaning, but everywhere lying triumphs and conspiracy theories and disinformation suffocate mere facts."

Some revolutions prompt enduring counter-revolutions, and we may be in the midst of a Populist backlash that is sweeping the world, as is the case with Donald Trump.

Whatever it is, the shift from can-do to can’t-do, from “I can do it,” to “they made me do it,” from striving to whining has — at least to my mind — been significant and abrupt.

The author writes: “Everywhere in the watershed there used to be more — more salmon, more bears, more old growth forests, bigger glaciers, more language speakers.”

There’s a new wrinkle in ballot initiative politics this year.

This review of the results of one failed solution illustrates the danger of adopting a wrong-headed approach. But don’t count on past lessons learned. The district seems determined to close schools.

“I describe them as having been bad in ways that no human has been bad before. They are boring. They are flat.”

The strong-EV states are all voting Democrat; the weak-EV states all favor Republicans.

Archaeologists believe Herring’s House to have been the longest continually inhabited native village in North America. Then, in a few minutes during March of 1893, Herring’s House fell to an arsonist’s torch, and a 1,300-year history went up in smoke.

“In the Willamette valley we have been blessed with ideal conditions for growing Pinot Noir and Chardonnay for at least the last ten years."

Destiny and timing brought two highly developed peoples together -- Imperial Russia and the Alaska Natives -- so we can gaze at rare and delicate objects in virtually mint condition.

Stir and stir, then add some parmesan, cracked pepper, salt, olive oil, and basil and the rest of your dinner is ready. Lucky you all. Late and still ready and happy.

The swirl of commentary, punditry, and predictions that range from “won’t matter much” to “bad news for Trump’s chances” -- all need to be heard with the skepticism they deserve.

Now 12 American citizens — may God protect them — have said, “No.” No one is above the law. In the end, they — we — are our best hope.

If you find it hard to describe or explain God, don’t feel too bad about that.

These are tough times for the nation’s largest ferry system, which carried 8.8 million passengers (about half the population of New York state) and 8.6 million vehicles in 2022.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson has the distinction of sitting on both the biggest war chest in the race—which stands at $7.2 million—and the biggest small-dollar haul.

One writes: "When your advantage is thin or at a disadvantage, you practice protectionism in a big way. This is the so-called 'beacon of nations.' Such actions are bringing U.S. credibility to the bottom of a valley. What a mess!"

Whether those poles will be returned to the park as originally promised is now open to question.

Well before his broadcast personality made him an ebullient, irreverent national sports-culture hero in his final years, Bill Walton as a youngster was something...

“If it’s hootin’, I’m shootin’” may be the new reality.  Forever.

The travels and explorations by these weathered men helped mark trails, later to become wagon roads, and eventually the famous Oregon Trail.

My dad discharged his weapon in action only once, while serving guard duty on a train to Sasebo transporting Korean men conscripted by the Japanese Imperial Army for hard labor during the war.

In a sense, for decades, real estate brokers designed urban streetscapes. Now, the upscale credit tenants have fled. Have the lease rates gone down? Apparently not. So, we have dead, if not festering, street conditions.