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GOP ideals unDemocratic
Who knew that America was filled with so many amateur social studies teachers?
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Your call is not really important to us
I’ve been hacked. Officially. Someone pretending to be me - go figure - has applied for unemployment benefits…
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Unsolicited advice for grads
By the time most of you read this, my son Gideon will have marched across the gymnasium floor…
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Bainbridge Gives 2021: Supporting our local nonprofits
While the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, a relatively high vaccination rate on Bainbridge Island and the…
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It’s long past the time to get people back to work
When Congress established the Federal Unemployment Tax Act in 1935, it was intended to provide temporary and partial…
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Propaganda is the point
In three decades in the news business, most of them spent covering government and politics, I’ve been to…
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Laud Liz Cheney for defending truth; don’t forget father’s lies
Kudos to Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. Her House GOP leadership post hangs by a thread because she refuses…
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There’s value in work, like it or not
The disappointing April jobs report should surprise absolutely no one, given that we now have a government more…
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Why the failure to condemn Hamas?
If you’re the sort of person who sees no difference between the Israeli military defending its citizens and…
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After crossing the border, then what?
Customs and Border Protection isn’t returning or detaining illegal migrant crossers, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn’t removing…
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Cantwell’s plan to revitalize community journalism
The coronavirus pandemic surely has damaged core sectors of the American economy. Small businesses that serve communities in…
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Claim the right to dust off your gun
In the wake of recent mass shootings, President Biden managed to avoid being blown over by a gentle…
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Biden was right on refugees; then he caved
The annual refugee resettlement kerfuffle is underway.