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The Millionaires Tax was passed and signed, but it faces a challenge in the courts and possibly at the ballot box.

There’s a reason they call them the terrible twos – the defiance, the disobedience, the disregard for accepted standards of behavior.

I have spent more than 20 years covering religion in the Inland Northwest, and recently I had the chance to share what I’ve learned as a guest preacher at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse in Moscow, Idaho. What I told that congregation is something the news cycle rarely makes room for: Faith communities are not waiting for permission to work for love and justice. They are already doing it. I see it every week from my desk at FāVS News.

Washington state continues to revise its laws on gambling.

America is a country with among the most magnificent health care therapies available, technologies that are simply stunning and lifesaving. This is true.

On Saturday, my mom celebrated her 95th birthday and had a new story for Derek and me.

When our first granddaughter was about 1, our family introduced her to the three-ring circus. As the elephants came out and did their tricks, I noticed a strange thing: no pooper-scooper behind them. Could it be true that elephants can actually be house-broken?

Under state law, March 31 is Cesar Chavez Day, one of 20 days singled out for special recognition,

Dear Phone Companies:

Millionaire's Tax debate raised many questions. Among them, was this the longest in Washington legislative history?

Forget Taco Tuesday, my daughter-in-law and I recently discovered something even more fun: Tea Tuesday.

There is a Buddhist practice I used to struggle with: the instruction to look at every person as if they were once your mother – someone who, in another life, cared for you completely, asking nothing in return. I couldn’t get there. My own mother chose her religion over me. The idea of universal maternal love felt like a cruelty. Then Stanley arrived, and I finally understood it from the other side.

Shortly after we started Northwest Passages more than eight years ago, a longtime subscriber noticed we showed a list of donors on the big video board of those who helped us keep improving and growing the series. From the very first Northwest Passages event, we were blown away by the generosity and support of those who came to our budding bibliophile bonanzas.

There’s a profound statement in Chapter 6 of the “Rule of St. Benedict,” which I recently posted on social media: “Let us follow the Prophet’s counsel: ‘I said, I have resolved to keep watch over my ways that I may never sin with my tongue.

When two columnists pick the same topic and their columns run consecutively, the universe might be trying to tell you something.

Editor’s note: This is an occasional letter Paul has been writing – since 1997 – to his now young-adult grandchildren.

Although he didn't get the nomination, the Rev. Jesse Jackson thrilled on the 1988 campaign trail and at the convention.