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COLUMN: An honor to be on the fire line
As reporters, we spend a lot of time telling other people's stories. Every once in a while, though, you find yours…
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.
U.N. craziness
The United Nations has never lived up to the grandiose aspirations of its founders. By the 1990s even many of its supporters admitted the world body had become a bloated debating society. Madeleine Albright, then U…
Obama's Afghan policy is a failure
Which is it?
The U.S. House proves again why a 435-member "Not Quite Joint Chiefs of Staff" is less than optimum for designing and executing military policy.