The beautiful days of spring began Sunday with wonderful warm weather and bright blue skies. Everyone is all zippy and…
What’s the most overused word in government? My nominee is “investment.” In the real world an investment is when you…
Being in the newspaper industry is no easy feat these days based on the recent closures of the Rocky Mountain…
When House Majority Leader Lynn Kessler (D-Hoquiam) addressed the Association of Washington Business last week, she talked about the uncharted…
A couple of weeks ago I attended a town hall where a trio of eastside legislators warned darkly about the…
I had a moment of inspiration this morning. The thought occurred to me that the person who said a dog…
The facts have to be sanitized for a family newspaper. But if people knew what Cal Brown really did to Holly Washa there would be no ambivalence about the death penalty.
Thursday was Legislative Day in Olympia for newspaper publishers and editors in the state of Washington. The Washington Newspaper Publishers…
There’s an old expression still used when someone falls short of a goal while giving it their all: “Give him…
Plenty of unforgettable stories took place during the winter prep season. The Kentwood High girls basketball team won the state…
A few weeks ago I alerted readers to a startling state Senate proposal that would erase the life terms of…
Music is always on my brain. I listen to satellite radio in the car, I have a 120 GB iPod…
By Reps. Pat Sullivan and Geoff Simpson Special to the Covington Reporter You may have heard that the state Department…
When the ribbon was snipped on a new floating bridge connecting Montlake to the eastside in 1963, a toll was…
I have two exciting events to report in the last month since I have been working at the Reporter. First…
Some tough decisions lie ahead for the Kent School Board. Specifically, where to trim the budget if the district’s state…
A few weeks ago, my wife and I were watching the DVD of Titanic, when she suddenly – WAIT A…
A few weeks ago, my wife and I were home watching the movie Titanic when she suddenly hit the pause…
Friday was a new day for me. I began the day as the new editor of the Maple Valley and…
Voters here and in the rest of King County are a few days away from completing the change to putting an elected director in charge of the county elections department. Those advocating the switch – including the 56 percent “yes” from voters countywide in last November’s election in favor of revamping the job from a bureaucratic appointee to an elected official – want the position to, as much as possible, be free of partisanship and any related specter of possible political influences in the conduct of elections. Sherril Huff doesn’t seem to get that.
