I want to keep my guns. But If I have to pass a test to prove I know how and when to use a firearm, I will accept that.

Seeing ourselves only as helpless victims is seldom true and never helpful. Accepting responsibility is actually empowering.

“What we have here is a battle between traditional values and urban values,” Michael McCarter, president of Citizens for Greater Idaho, told me. “The urbanites don’t have the same attachment to their community."

Georgia Sen. Warnock dispenses words of wisdom at a Seattle fundraiser.

Imagining a Joe and Mitch breakfast discussion. If the GOP agrees to some progress on gun control, what would be the trade-off?

“It’s one of those public policy issues that cuts across a whole bunch of dimensions and not in ways that are simple."

The state's 147 legislators shoulder a heavy responsibility. The rewards are meager.

I expect that Joe Biden will use the shellacking in the 2022 elections as the incentive to announce his non-candidacy in 2024. He's wise to wait.

Don’t stew over the next Covid surge or Monkeypox, since these diseases create investment opportunities.

“What’s the easiest path for me?” Jason Kenney asked.  “Just to take a walk. I don’t need the job. I could go into the private sector, have my evenings, weekends off. I don’t say this stuff publicly, there are just kooky people generally."

Why was Mt. Rainier regarded as a female god? What started the bitterness between Whites and Indians? Why did revivalists work so well in the Pacific Northwest?

Someone suggested we call John Aylward, who was currently a star actor at the Seattle Repertory Theater. John accepted without pause.

Flip spent much of his life flying airplanes and helping design and test the Boeing jetliners that changed the world. He loved to fly.  And, with his trim Clark Gable moustache and sparkling blue eyes, he certainly looked the part.

Even Thomas Jefferson, in late life and after Meriwether Lewis reported otherwise, believed that rivers and lakes could combine to whisk traders from one coast to the other.

General McCaffrey dared to say: Joe Biden is too old and he's never going to get re-elected in 2024. So....

Within 24 hours of the eruption, rescue workers and scientists reported seeing insects flying around the blast zone with a surprisingly large number of spiders parachuting in and incinerating on contact with the Pumice Plain. 

If something has changed in the terrible evil of these mass shooting and gun violence — a move from the psychologically troubled to the politically/racially motivated and radicalized — something hasn’t changed at all.

Trump fared much better in other primaries across the country, possibly to the detriment of his party.

"The music is back. Audiences are eagerly returning."

If Congress, in its current makeup, is unable to protect the right of women to have freedom over their choice in having a child, then the Democrats will have to focus on state politics.

Finland and Sweden announced Sunday their intentions to apply for NATO membership, moves that represent a seismic shift in European security policy on Russia.

Diaz sees the various crises as an opportunity, a good time to make change and to rethink policing by challenging the status quo of policing.

Some are drawn to a “white homeland” movement which dreams of turning northern reaches of the Inland Northwest into a refuge from America’s growing diversity and multiculturalism.

Losses include a number of veterans whose experience and expertise will be much missed. Equally confounding is the exodus of newer lawmakers of color.

There were few matters in our post-Alaska Gold Rush town of 80,000 that failed to inspire Doctor Matthews. 

Senator Murray is reportedly working with Senate women on strategies for keeping the choice issue front and center. 

It is wonderful now, but it will not be near as good in the middle of summer. This is its time, spring.

There is a demonic power that is at work in our country today. And at work in some “churches.”

Only when JustCare became involved did the lives improve for the people inside the tents and their neighbors in nearby apartments.

Real estate developers frequently create a new LLC for each project for entirely solid business reasons. But in a political context, the practice has the effect of allowing them to become super-donors.