The virus has done what viruses do — take advantage of the vulnerabilities of an unhealthy host. It is this that has been revealed, or “apocalypsed” to us.

Social changes have transformed our lives leaving old opposition points (same-sex marriage? women in the military?) no longer at issue.

Despite the years of bitter struggle, the differences between the Evans supporters and the Reaganites were really rather subtle.

"Look, if I had a small business, and I was standing behind a counter over there by 3rd and Union or 3rd and Pike, it probably would be a complete shit show. I'd probably be scared too."

The Trump targets are getting support in usual and unusual places.

I am a woman who uses the park pretty much every day and at all times of the day and I don't think it is helpful to reinforce the notion that women can feel unsafe in the park.

Rogan’s formula includes an uncanny ability to listen in a way that gets his guests to venture out of their canned comfort zones.

Doesn't Stanley Tucci's American upbringing ever cause him to crave hash browns? And is there an Italian version, perhaps with extra-virgin olive oil?

Up and down the coast, like it or not, our compassion for the homeless is wearing thin.

Will the church go with the increasingly digitized modern, or post-modern world, where more and more of our interactions are disembodied and distanced?

The Canadian Conservatives are in a dire place.  They have gone through six leaders since Prime Minister Stephen Harper was defeated in 2015.

When Puccini died in 1924, it was rumored that he was working on a sequel...

Bernstein was one of the last of his kind: a national reporter without a degree.

Can you trust news based on anonymous sources?

The Republican Party was moving right, while Evans stayed loyal to the moderate-liberal Rockefeller wing and went down with that leaky ship.  Reagan forces denied Evans, a sitting GOP governor, a delegate slot to the 1976 national convention. 

The inaugural issues of Cascadia Daily News are so superior to current issues of the Bellingham Herald as to force the hedge fund owners of the Herald to look at their hole cards.

Mike James and David Brewster debate the future of Seattle's "hidden" park.

Congress seems paralyzed.  What Republicans are doing in state legislatures to undermine voting is countered by the Democrats’ too-sweeping For the People Act. So far, that leaves no room for finding common ground.

In a strong political position, Trudeau has shown no truck for the caravan or the shivering protest.  He warned last week that a “small fringe minority” was manipulating the protest.

Courts don't want to touch the issue. Congress is unlikely to go near the problem. The Supremes waved it off.

Why isn’t this first of all a Russia/Ukraine problem or stand-off or crisis? These two nations appear to be the ones on the front-line, the ones with the most to lose.

A bloody invasion of Ukraine to expand Russia’s “sphere of influence?”

There was some talk that Carlyle might face a challenge from the Left in 2022, but given the progressive victories in the Legislature, which Carlyle voted for, it's not clear a challenger would have much to run on.

A "crime free-for-all."

Whenever an organization is having problems – as this one clearly is – it's helpful as a reporter to step back to consider how a successful, well-run organization might respond in the situation.

Rather than seeing these three departures as a sign of abandoning city hall reporting, the reality is there is a lot of churn in local media.

What if you didn’t have a calendar to glance at every once in a while? What if it was a list of numbers, 1 to 31 displayed in random clusters?

Democrats need to select the turf that they can win instead of wandering around in a state's political wilderness.

The poet Richard Hugo wrote of "the moody damp and wanton rain."  He said: "What is harsh about this rain-soaked landscape is the bone-infecting, soul-deranging, forest-brooding damp." 

Unwavering eyes, like a microscope, the quintessential observer grabs you by the lapels and gives you a good hard shake. Reading her is like having a candle lit inside you.