Opinion
Coal trains are poor policy
A long-view of coal-export facilities weaves together who is paying for what, the spectrum of environmental impacts, and…
Opinion
Take time to get it right
With a devastating explosion Wednesday night in West, Texas, killing at least 15 people and injuring at least…
Opinion
Why CIA licenses matter
Why has a sub-rosa program within Washington’s Department of Licensing, concealed from the governor and legislative poobahs, issued…
Opinion
Giving DUI laws real teeth
Drunken driving traces a pattern: a bow wave of horror followed by a bow wave of hammer-dropping legislation…
Opinion
Boston’s reminder of terror
Monday’s bombings in Boston shattered the peace of an overcast spring day. Terrorism cuts cowardice, nerve and evil,…
Opinion
The last gun bill standing
This year in Olympia, gun-shy lawmakers (pun intended) ducked efforts to promote public safety and curtail gun violence.…
Opinion
Pushing for a compromise
Budget season in Olympia is Pyongyang minus the nukes. Dear party leaders, with their posturing and constituency appeasing,…
Opinion
Stop obscene pay madness
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is all about protecting the student-athlete. Except, you know, when it’s not.
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Enforcing the law, equality
French writer Alexis De Tocqueville got it right more than 150 years ago when he observed, “Scarcely any…
Opinion
PSRC takes on coal trains
Bias is embedded in every institution’s DNA. “Think tanks” are usually PR shops underwritten by corporations or deep-pocketed…
Opinion
Ecology’s politics of health
Washington’s Department of Ecology braids politics and science. It’s a two-master scenario that doesn’t always serve the public…
Opinion
Beatles were really lizards
Let’s start a conspiracy theory that conspiracy theorists are plotting to take over the world. That’s the lamestream…
Opinion
Math illiteracy big negative
In the April issue of her magazine, Oprah Winfrey confesses that what she “knows for sure” doesn’t include…
Opinion
Math illiteracy big negative
In the April issue of her magazine, Oprah Winfrey confesses that what she “knows for sure” doesn’t include…
Opinion
Keep the ‘Dream Act’ alive
Even in the post-Lenten season, resurrection is possible. Let’s hope that’s the case with the Washington Dream Act,…
Opinion
Puget Sound, a gem at risk
On a geologic time scale, Puget Sound is an infant. The Northwest’s inland sea was carved by the…
Opinion
Now, how to pay for STEM
For policy wonks, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) is a mod buzzword. STEM transcends political party, a…
Opinion
Inslee’s budget a good start
The tempest over Gov. Jay Inslee’s budget centers on semantics. Does un-looping a handful of tax breaks to…