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Democracy isn’t eroding. It’s evolving. The question is: Toward what?
I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it.
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Farmers, Ranchers, and Resource-Based Communities — Take Note
I am deeply disappointed by efforts to portray Washington’s new non-fish stream (Np) buffer rule as a straightforward…
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How the education system needs to adapt to AI
The sudden and rapid propagation of artificial intelligence [AI] through large language models, or LLMs, like ChatGPT, has…
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Holy crap — Trump sees himself as Christlike
Since I graduated from medical school fifty-six years ago, I’ve hung around with hundreds of doctors. I’ve even…
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Accountability and opportunity — getting child care right in Washington
Recent childcare reports raise serious concerns about Washington state’s handling of funding, with the state auditor questioning millions…
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Letter to the editor
In 2024, The Daily World published two opinion page letters by me, regarding my concerns of Timberland Regional…
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Policy on minimum wage, taxes is making WA unaffordable
Washington continues to rack up poor rankings as one of the most unaffordable states in the country. A…
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Jim Whittaker remembered: You don’t conquer a mountain
THERE WERE GIANTS in the land. We lost one last week when Jim Whittaker passed away at age…
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Climate education makes economic sense
In January 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Education Act, which framed the issue of environmental…
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WAGOP recommends two for seats on WA’s high court
During its regular quarterly meeting last weekend, the State Committee of the Washington State Republican Party (WAGOP) made…
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Not impossible: Fed up Hungarians oust ‘a fantastic guy’
DEAR READER: Something stunning happened in Hungary last Sunday. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian government was consigned to…
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No easy road: Keeping the lights on in rural WA
When people think about their electric service, they usually think about it the moment it stops working.