Editorial
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: On affordability, both sides are failing us...
Last year, we started running a weekly news piece on the cost of fuel in our area. We examined average costs for f…
Ephrata hospital
Voters are leaning toward sustaining Ephrata's Columbia Basin Hospital during this week's $13 million bond request.
Online consumer privacy
As politicians hunker down for a long, bipolar year producing little, citizen-consumers get no vacation from the need to protect their privacy online.
Export-Import Bank fuels trade, jobs
'Strip-search' ruling
Law enforcement officials will be disappointed if they were looking for guidance from the U.S. Supreme Court on the matter of "strip-searching" suspects entering jail. The court took on the issue in a New Jersey ca…
Reader discusses upcoming election
GUEST EDITORIAL
Congress and inside trading
Much like state lawmakers who heralded their ethics reform package last year, Congress is heaping great praise on itself for passing a law banning insider trading and bringing more light to the financial transactio…
Arizona's immigration law
The U.S. Supreme Court should strike down four troubling provisions of Arizona's anti-illegal-immigration law. They conflict with federal laws and shouldn't become models for states grappling with illegal immigrati…
Obama and the Supreme Court
Borrowing a line from conservative critics of the judiciary, President Barack Obama declared that the Supreme Court would be engaging in "judicial activism" if it threw out the 2010 healthcare reform law. Respondin…
Rule of law
If there's a single outcome that will show that the United States succeeded in its military mission to Afghanistan, it will be that the rule of law has been established.
Insurance exchange: paying more for less
Budgetary courage
Months ago many in his party were clamoring for Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to jump into the presidential race. But he knew that the job he already had as chairman of the House Budget Committee was just as critical to …
Warnick: Happy Trails, Bill Hinkle
Pain at the Pump
Soaring gasoline prices are hitting us hard in the pocketbook. Gas prices have reached nearly $3.90 a gallon locally - even more in smaller Basin communities. And there doesn't seem to be any relief in sight.
Health exchange guts employer choices
Student loans
A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York states that student loan delinquency rates are much higher than previous estimates. Although conventional measurements indicate around 15 percent of student loan a…