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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…
Democrats agree
President Barack Obama's plan to ostensibly spur job growth would do just the opposite.
Mortgage help
Soon there may be good news for homeowners who are underwater and cannot refinance at the record-low mortgage interest rates. President Barack Obama is seeking changes that would give these homeowners a chance to r…
Pay attention
The closer Congress lets our country drift to financial disaster, the louder the vitriol and double-speak becomes.
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…
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.
Free speech lives
The U.S. Supreme Court was wise to strike down a California law banning sales and rentals of violent video games to minors.
Cross your fingers
President Barack Obama's release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has political and economic benefits, but both are likely to be transitory.
Ethanol exit
If Congress ever gets around to making the sort of spending cuts needed to put the country's finances on a sustainable path, the ethanol industry justifiably will be required to do its share.
Weiner to go
Taking lewd pictures of oneself and sexting or tweeting them to anyone, friend or Internet pal, is one of the top 10 dumbest things a politician can do.
Budget brakes
Leaders of both parties are playing a dangerous game of political chicken with issues related to our national debt - dangerous for the re-election prospects of party members, but more importantly, for the economic …
No sunshine
Unions shield bad teachers from layoffs
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