When Oregon enacted the nation’s first bottle bill in 1971, it was intended to reduce litter on the state’s beaches,…
One thing aging has taught me: kids live in another world than I do.
In the film “Matilda,” the girl’s father, Harry Wormwood, in conversation with Matilda’s teacher, Miss Honey, belittles educated people.
The debt ceiling “crisis” infuriates me.
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
Consider this hypothetical scenario.
The longtime political writer and nationally syndicated columnist Charles McDowell once described a politician who, “had his ear so close…
It’s out there.
Some would argue that spring is the most wonderful time of the year in Washington. Throughout our state the fruit…
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
Many of us have read books that changed the way we look at the world.
Neurologists tell us that human beings lay down fresh connections in their brains when they learn new things.
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
I have been thinking lately about the word “elite.”
In the 1968 film “Oliver!,” the murderous Bill Sykes’ doomed lover, Nancy, leads pub revelers in a round of “Oom…
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
While none of the responses I received to the Dec. 17 column about Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit against Fox…
If we recall anything of our first years of life, it likely comes to our consciousness only in isolated, bright…
Cartoon by Frank Shiers: “On March 24, the state Supreme Court ruled that the capital gains tax was constitutional. They…
In the race to “electrify everything,” there are glitches that may derail the plan over the next 20 years. One…
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