Pay attention

The closer Congress lets our country drift to financial disaster, the louder the vitriol and double-speak becomes.

Gun laws didn't help

It is customary, after every violent tragedy, to observe that lessons must be learned from it. But the reality of the Norwegian massacre is that there are rather few to be learned.

TSA upgrade

The era of easy air travel is over for the foreseeable future, but a sensible improvement to software in full-body scanners at least represents an important step toward a more tolerable boarding experience at the n…

Car wash rules protect watershed

Immigration trickle

The vast majority of illegal immigrants in the U.S. come from Mexico. That shouldn't surprise anyone. A big surprise is that Mexican migration appears to have fallen to a trickle because of several factors, not the…

Reader believes it is a revenue problem

The idea of "limited government" is appealing in the abstract, but not in concrete terms.

Reader grateful for garage sale support

Last Saturday, July 16, I held a garage sale to help raise money for the Evergreen Chapter of the ALS Association. My Aunt Betty passed away 4 years ago from ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and this was in honor of "Tea…

Work needed

The haggling in Congress over whether to pay the credit card bill for money already spent reveals how at least one party has lost sense of any priorities.

'Cramming' fee

They're small amounts, usually overlooked by most customers and, according to recent Federal Communications Commission estimates, affect 15 million to 20 million American households.

Final frontier

In a few days, a sleek winged ship will drop out of the sky after spending nearly two weeks in space. It will glide to a runway - most likely in Florida.

Buy local

Millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs have been sent overseas by corporations eager to utilize low-paid foreign workers. To resist this betrayal, Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D-W.Va., helped form the bipartisan Buy American …

Praise for Columbia Basin Secondary School

Knee-jerk law

Anybody with a heart can understand the urge across the nation to pass some type of "Caylee's Law" that would make it a felony for parents or caregivers not to report missing children quickly. But wise lawmakers sh…

Justice for who?

They both seemed so guilty.

Ship of fools

All hail the government of Greece for single-handedly mothballing the flotilla that was setting sail to challenge Israel's naval blockade of Gaza.