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Schwab: Consistently consequential conspiracies and crimes
Ken Paxton. Herschel Walker. MTG. Pete Hegseth. Pam Bondi. Lauren Boebert. Matt Goetz. Kari Lake. Tommy Tuberville. Jeanine…
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Welch: Sound Transit’s $34 billion shell game: It’s time to stop the train
Sound Transit’s board just voted 16-2 to keep the Everett Link Extension on schedule. Cue the press releases.…
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Schwab: Trump supporters’ unquestioning credulity bodes ill for our republic
After last week’s column detailing only a fraction of the grotesque corruption Trump and his familiars are getting…
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Burke: Trump’s 250th — Trash-talking, pillow-fisted, glass-jawed tap out?
Let’s celebrate 250 years of American independence with a glorious White House celebration where we’ll honor the patriots…
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Forum: There are some things that should not be subcontracted
Diagnostic thinking is one of the blessings (among some curses) that came along with the “Enlightenment.” It’s the…
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Schwab: The most corrupt administration in U.S. history
Today’s debate topic: “Resolved: Trump and his administration are the most corrupt in US history.”
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Welch: Olympia’s polycrisis is your problem now
There is a word making the rounds in political circles right now: polycrisis. It refers to multiple serious…
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Burke: Recognize that we are living through history in the making
I was a lobster-back reenactor, a British Redcoat for the 10 or so years my wife and I…
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Welch: Washington has five years to get redistricting right
On April 29, the Supreme Court ruled in Louisiana v. Callais that intentionally drawing legislative districts based on…
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Forum: The importance and love of packing a good lunch
Give me dishes to wash, laundry to fold, or garbage to take out.
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Burke: …And they vote?!
Yes, it’s a mind-numbing lot to keep track of, but Americans must pay attention to protect democracy.
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Forum: ‘Customer Service’ is just another invasive species
A fella named Luther Burbank was, I’m sure, convinced he was doing us a favor when, in 1895,…
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Welch: Washington does not need a new Department of Housing
Washington has a housing problem. That much is clear. Rents are high, homeownership is increasingly out of reach,…
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Schwab: H is for hypocrisy
Can anyone imagine the reaction from the right if Presidents Barack Obama or Joe Biden has done the…
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Welch: Stop starving local government: Olympia must share the wealth
Across Washington, taxpayers are feeling the squeeze from every direction. Property tax bills rise each year. Sales taxes…
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Schwab: Lucy Van Pelt is Iran. The football is the Strait of Hormuz. And Trump is, well, Trump.
As he decompensates while his stupid war spins out of control like a buzz-bomb firecracker, it’s obvious that…
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Burke: Donald Trump — Evil, sick, stupid, old or just burned toast?
“Everything Trump Touches Dies” was the title of a 2018 book by well-known Republican strategist and Never Trumper,…
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Welch: Compassion without accountability is not compassion
By Todd Welch / Herald Columnist