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…
Oiled up
If a Republican were president, the Democrats would have leaped like a pack of hungry jackals at the chance to exploit the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill for political gain. We can just hear the outraged demands tha…
Death by a thousand tax increases
SEATTLE — The 2009-2011 supplemental budget recently enacted by the state legislature, which increases taxes by $800 million, does not deal a fatal blow to any particular industry. Instead, legislators this year de…
Fed up
The Seattle Times editorial board recently suggested, “America must do its part,” in regards to feeding people in other nations.
State must fight unconstitutional health care
When Attorney General Rob McKenna joined a bipartisan group of his counterparts from other states to challenge the constitutionality of the Obama health care plan, Gov. Christine Gregoire became downright livid, sa…
Who's calling?
On April 14 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that ought to please anyone who’s ever been annoyed at telemarketers or scammers who shield their identity on the caller ID.
So angry
Amy Walter, of the National Journal, offered a timely reminder recently about the roiling anger at government. She noted that the rage sounds much like 2006 — except that this time Republicans, not Democrats, are t…
No stinking IDs
The trains, they say, ran on time when the Fascists under Benito Mussolini ran Italy. Let that be a lesson to us.
Too private?
Suppose Congress created a board to protect the privacy of Americans and no one showed up. That’s the bizarre reality of the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, all of whose five seats have bee…
Spaced out
Back in February, President Barack Obama announced significant changes and cuts to this nation’s space program.
Hydropower is key to our future
GUEST EDITORIAL
Tax time
Are you ready to pay more taxes?
Foreclosure folly
If all goes according to plan, the Obama administration’s new anti-foreclosure effort will prevent many more foreclosures than its current one and do more to moderate the decline in home prices. That is a big if.
Census Vital to Farmers, Ranchers, Rural America
Judy Olson
National drug problem needs to be discussed
D. Angus Lee
Un-American?
A recent attack ad put out by Keep America Safe, a conservative national security organization headed by Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, twists the very values it purports to defend.