Opinion
The student lending mess needs to be fixed
After years of poor decision-making, the federal government’s $1.64 trillion student loan program is in critical condition. Congress…
Opinion
Hoquiam pellet plant jobs not worth the harm
It is hard to resist the promise of new jobs to reduce chronically high unemployment.
Opinion
What made America great in the Gilded Age
“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country,” said President…
Opinion
Bobby Kennedy’s nutty ideas put Americans at risk
Vaccines are a modern miracle, saving an estimated 154 million lives in the last half-century. Vaccine skepticism is…
Opinion
Trump move against offshore energy projects is really dumb
Offshore wind, one of many energy sources that was going to help New York meet incredibly ambitious goals…
Opinion
Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act challenges courts
The fight in Federal Judge James Boasberg’s D.C. courtroom over whether President Donald Trump can use the Alien…
Opinion
Highway history on the Peninsula: Culverts, but no salmon
Building roads on the Olympic Peninsula has always been a challenge. In the days before roads, people traveled…
Opinion
Trump unwraps a Social Security exploding cigar
President Donald Trump was about to be blindsided. Yet he seemed clueless that a Social Security political bombshell…
Opinion
Trump’s foreign policies have a nuclear impact on US credibility
As the consequences of the new administration’s approach to our foreign relations become all too apparent — from…