Imagine 350 college grads walking across the stage to receive their degrees in a ceremony with no valedictorian and no student honors.
I’ve run into a major problem with Obamacare: I can’t get rid of my free health care.
He often arrived at the Starting Gate Restaurant fresh from a high school baseball, basketball or football game, white cap on head, striped green shirt curving over his protruding belly, khaki pants, tennis shoes.
Let’s face it. We’re spoiled. Even in our tough economy, most Americans enjoy a myriad of conveniences we take for granted.
Our environment, health, safety and communities are at risk from decisions being made now to transport and export trainloads of coal and oil through Western Washington.
Imagine the domed state Capitol as a classroom, with 147 state lawmakers as students, and you may get a better picture of the challenge facing Washington’s Supreme Court this summer.
Steal $200,000 from a bank and you’ll go to prison. Steal $200,000 from the taxpayers and you’ll probably get a slap on the wrist.
That venerable adage, “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it,” came to mind Tuesday as President Barack Obama departed the Oso firehouse.
Washington state agencies face the same issue that confronts private citizens when it’s time to update their personal computers. How do you safely dispose of your old computer in an environmentally sound way that does not leave your confidential information stored on the computer’s hard drive?
Millions of unemployed college graduates are back where they started, living with their parents.
I have found a new meaning to life – cheese making. After spending the past several weeks watching political Kabuki kooks find ways to be silly and not govern, I needed some relief.
As Gov. Jay Inslee prepares to sign a revised state budget, he’s getting pressed to veto a few of its provisions.
It’s not often we get a chance to peer into the future to see the consequences of our actions. California has given us that opportunity.
Teen suicide is a horrible thing and a growing health concern.
No one could be happier to see state lawmakers wrap up and head home than Gov. Jay Inslee.
Is the Puget Sound region – home to more than 4.5 million people – prepared for a disaster? That’s a tough one to answer comprehensively, many emergency preparedness experts admit.
I was excited to attend a groundbreaking ceremony recently for a new state salmon hatchery at Voights Creek near Orting.
What kind of customer does a small business owner like? The one with disposable income. Yet, raise the subject of minimum wage and some will quickly claim that raising it is something we cannot afford to do.
Hulk Hogan is returning to the money-making behemoth known by its initials, WWE, and its annual extravaganza of muscle-flexing, WrestleMania.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are finding themselves once again falling down a rabbit hole in their Sisyphean efforts to cure the real and perceived ailments of the state’s public schools.