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.

A friendly border, spanning a continent, is an immeasurable asset — socially, economically and environmentally. Keeping it requires just a modest use of intelligence. Unfortunately the Trump Administration is neither modest nor intelligent.

“Chilling the lawyers who represent those people hurts the rule of law because when the government can’t be legally opposed, the law provides no protections to anyone, and you start to live in an autocracy.”

No one can lie like Trump. Trump will abolish the entire concept of truth. I have several duplicity name thoughts — for boys, Mendacious, DuPlicit, and Falisfyfire. For girls, Perfidious, Prevaricature. Farbricature.

Republicans who were looking for bipartisan cooperation on major issues of budgeting and taxation have been largely disappointed thus far.

The Hong Kong student no longer participates in class discussions and is reassessing her post-graduation plans of remaining in the U.S. “I’ve got to be really careful where I tread,” the student said. “I am just very much scared about what I say, what I do.” She has also chosen to opt out of a trip to Canada with friends out of fear of not being able to return to the U.S. 

The watchdog group Accountable.US terms Trump’s crypto activity alone “the most nakedly corrupt scheme of self-enrichment in US presidential history.”

When filing closed last week, voters received a look at candidates for this year’s local elections; none appeared far from the mainstream. Ballots will be sent July 18 for the Aug. 5 primary.

When the plan was underway, $200,000 was to be delivered within five days. The police and F.B.I. were of course notified.

A sudden substitution of the name of Washington replaced "Columbia" in Congress, and the name of the new territory stuck.

Within minutes of entering the village of Santa Vittoria in Matenano, we knew we had found our place.

Republicans in Washington have set their sights – once again – on defunding public media. On May 1, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the...

The former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a priest for nearly 43 years, has studied in Rome and spent two decades ministering in Peru — he holds dual Peruvian and American citizenships — and lately at the Vatican vetting appointment of bishops.

Hundreds are getting injured, and the numbers aren't being reliably reported.

The dashing Mario Cavaradossi (tenor Rame Lahaj), certainly looked the part of the Byronic hero, but his voice betrayed some reticence. “Recondita armonia” came off sounding a bit like an audition piece, without the ardor suggested by the music.