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Many years ago, my aunt gave me a book called "The Art of Doing Nothing." I want to tell you it changed my life — that I read it on a porch with a cup of tea and rediscovered the art of stillness.
The Iran war has provided at least two clear economic lessons. It has exposed the steep costs of being reliant on fossil fuels, highlighting the need for countries to diversify their homegrown energy sources, including solar and wind power. And it has shown what U.S. commerce could look like freed from the Jones Act, one of the most counterproductive protectionist measures of the last century. ...
From 1976: Marin Scott Milam, editor-in-chief of Playgirl magazine, paid a visit to Spokane to talk about her magazine’s startling success.
It’s taken me 80 years, but I’ve now finally gotten a handle on this self-care thing.
From 1976: Health officials were investigating the possibility that Joyce Rice, 48, of Grand Coulee, had contracted the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease, which had killed 22 people at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia two weeks earlier.
The Trump administration recently said it wants to “clean up” the No Surprises Act, the law that ended surprise billing for medical emergencies but opened up the healthcare system to exploitation. Now, a law that does a lot of good for individual patients could wind up raising costs for everyone. To understand what went so wrong, policymakers need a better grip on the players and processes ...
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh seemingly wants to outsource monetary policy to financial markets. In his telling, the central bank’s job is to be the referee, not the one influencing market expectations. Warsh says he wants markets to play the ball, not the Fed. To ensure that outcome, he argues that not only is it essential that the Fed provide no forward guidance about the future path of interest rates, but also that the Fed not explain how it would likely respond as circumstances change, that is, not explain the central bank’s monetary policy reaction function.
Thursday’s U.S. data dump cheered financial markets up: Inflation fell from a month earlier and the “core” measure – which strips out food and energy – was softer than expected. Consumption data separately showed an economy firing on all cylinders: booming AI investment alongside free-spending consumers. Don’t expect these too-good-to-be-true Goldilocks optics to last very long.
On July 11, I stood on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Main Street in Hillsboro, Oregon, for our weekly vigil to give support to our immigrant neighbors and to protest Trumpian anti-immigration tactics. The sign I held read “Justice Is Best Served Neat – Without ICE.”
Betting that more than half the voters casting primary ballots would deserve long odds, if you could get them. But the choices are much more varied than the November general.
Some data on Washington voter registration is a public record. Some of it can't be released under state law,
Back when I attended Catholic grade school (more than a half-century ago), we participated in a fundraising program that involved saving Campbell’s soup labels. Every time a can of soup was opened at home, I remember carefully slicing the label down the side and removing it – leaving the can looking quite ordinary.
U.S. Justice Department threatens to charge Washington elections officials if anyone votes illegally.
I’ve seen the same man jog the path between Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman often. He keeps his head down, eyes on his feet, earbuds in, working through whatever a run is meant to work through.
Bags of Horehound candy and golden butterscotch discs.
I occasionally drive down one particular street in Hillsboro, Oregon. To my right is a house with six American flags in an otherwise tastefully landscaped front yard. My use of “otherwise” implies I think the six flags are excessive; one would do just fine.
No fair peeking at the answers before you take the quiz.
Here's our special version of the annual Spin Control July 4th Trivia Quiz. Instead of 13 questions, one for each colony, we’ve got offering 50 questions, one for each state.
