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…
GUEST EDITORIAL: Hansen writes of 'character assassinations'
MOSES LAKE - I've experienced a number of character assassinations this last month by the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District. Although not menti…
EDITORIAL: Leaderless, but not out
Franklin Roosevelt assured the country there was nothing to fear but fear itself. Ronald Reagan urged us to stay the course. Bill Clinton found hope in pop cul…
Saturday mail
A bipartisan group of senators have come up with a reasonable plan to keep the U.S. Postal Service solvent, while at the same time continuing six-day a week ma…
Occupy elsewhere
The tolerance of North American cities for the Occupy protests need not be limitless.
Internet regulation
The U.S. has run the Internet, since the late 1960s when it first emerged as a communications network among U.S. defense agencies and research labs, and considering the Internet's ubiquitous presence worldwide, the…
Student debt
The prospect of carrying for decades a load of student debt hardly encourages advanced learning. On Oct. 26, President Barack Obama took a well-advised step in issuing the "Pay As You Earn" executive order. There a…
New rules?
Wall Street still runs the show on Capitol Hill, even with the lessons learned from the Great Recession and the imperatives of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms.
Nearing the tipping point on minimum wage
Protests and change
As the Occupy Wall Street protests spread from Lower Manhattan to Washington and other cities, the chattering classes keep complaining that the marchers lack a clear message and specific policy prescriptions. The m…
Debit-card tax
Congress hailed it as a victory for consumers last year when it decided to impose price controls on banks, capping "swipe" fees they charge merchants for debit-card transactions.
Cellphone searches
Privacy laws in the United States need an upgrade. Rapid advances in cellphones and computers are outstripping the ability of old laws to protect our personal lives.
Congress-tion
Most members of Congress were probably high achievers in school. But, as a group, they have a serious deadline problem. Congress' inability to get things done - and done on time - is creating grave risks for the co…
Making sure tolls are not a tax
Who's next?
America's top military officer, on the eve of his retirement, has brought into the open a long-festering conflict between Pakistan and the United States that has recently turned very nasty. The question now is what…
New tea party?
The pundit class has largely ignored, dismissed or mocked the Occupy Wall Street protest. We too find it hard to get especially worked up over a series of small demonstrations in a handful of cities, including Los …