The latest Democratic presidential debate was disappointing. Not because the participants weren’t articulate — in fact, many of their answers were excellent — but because… Continue reading
Kitsap County had the highest odd-year election turnout since 2013, according to unofficial returns from the 2019 General Election. Kitsap election officials currently peg this… Continue reading
Do you remember the climax of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express?” It turned out all the murder suspects were guilty. And as Trump’s… Continue reading
“Somebody ought to put a bullet in her skull. Back in the day, our forefathers would have put a bullet in her [expletive].” These words,… Continue reading
Veterans For Peace, an organization that speaks truth to war like nobody else, is attempting to reclaim Armistice Day, the Nov. 11 holiday that was… Continue reading
Backing the wrong horse, again The United States has a long record of befriending the wrong people — authoritarian leaders who rely on military and… Continue reading
Greta Thunberg was just a little girl in Sweden who learned about the emerging threats to all of us — literally to every human being… Continue reading
I’m not sure who to believe anymore. House Intelligence Committee Chairman, and impeachment hearing ringmaster, Adam Schiff (D-Cal.) says he doesn’t know the identity of… Continue reading
Most ballots are counted but the fight over Initiative 976 is far from over. It’s just changing venues. The measure paring the cost of car… Continue reading
We interrupt this impeachment hearing to bring you a message from Donald Trump: “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad.” That tweet, read on live television… Continue reading
Our cartoon chronicle of Donald J. Trump as president continues with a look back at the stable genuis’ 145th week in the White House. This… Continue reading
If Ambassador Bill Taylor didn’t exist already, we’d have to invent him. With a made-for-TV voice filled to the brim with gravitas, the West Point… Continue reading
Study shows split results in council races.
The public impeachment hearings were barely underway when Jim Jordan, the GOP’s attack Chihuahua, began to yap about the whistleblower. Where’s the whistleblower? Why can’t… Continue reading
One of the not-so-small gifts of living in a representative democracy is that you can’t accomplish things alone. Whether you’re trying to get a stop… Continue reading
Joe Biden is going to win the Democratic nomination for president. I wouldn’t run to your bookie with this information. My track record is spotty,… Continue reading
Starting as Armistice Day, celebrated for the first time Nov. 11, 1919 — the first anniversary of the end of World War I in 1918… Continue reading
washington, dc
U.S. Senator Patty Murray, a senior member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee and Washington state’s senior senator, released the following statement on Veterans Day:… Continue reading
Speaking in 1910, former two-term president Theodore Roosevelt offered some practical advice that Elizabeth Warren and today’s progressive Democrats would be wise to heed. Although… Continue reading
City Councilwoman Leslie Schneider will retain her seat on the Bainbridge Island City Council. In Thursday’s update of the vote tally in the council’s District… Continue reading
[flipp] 