Depending on how you measure success, the recently concluded Washington legislative session was either really great, not as terrible as normal or a frustrating combination of progress and setbacks … more

Whether you are reading this on Thursday, May 4, in the newspaper or viewing it online, you may not be aware that tomorrow — Friday — is a momentous day in the life of this struggling … more

Few people alive today can say their grandfather fought in the Civil War, but a Toledo man can. Don Buswell, who still lives in the house where he was born more than a century ago, is proud of his … more

Republicans came into this year’s legislative session vowing to fix the state’s drug-possession law so offenders would have more incentive to enter and complete treatment. We remain … more

Back in the 1980s, home from college, I visited my sister’s new rental house in Vancouver one night and, as the evening progressed, I ran to the store for something. When I returned, I opened … more

It was the best of times in Chehalis, it was the worst of times in Centralia.  With apologies to Charles Dickens, one could write a novel about Lewis County's largest school districts this … more

In one of the columns I started to write — prior to my taking a rest from 15 years of writing weekly columns for this newspaper — I touched on the topic of artists who found their own way … more

The failure of state lawmakers to do anything about the surging drug crisis is one of the worst policy face-plants I've seen in local politics going back 30 years. Rarely is the gap so wide … more

President Joe Biden is unwisely “throttling up” plans to ditch carbon fuels unilaterally despite the extreme consequences of doing so. He wants to accelerate the replacement of gas/diesel … more