Opinion
Message from state superintendent regarding school employee vaccinations
After a year and a half of remote and hybrid learning, my top priorities as our school buildings…
Opinion
Editorial: The UN climate report, ‘The Lorax’ and us
The report and the Dr. Seuss classic offer a dire warning — and hope — for responding to…
Opinion
Financial reality about re-introducing mask mandates | Guest column
The recent flare-up the COVID delta variant is a good example of how Mother Nature works to sustain…
Opinion
Look forward to an exciting November election | Roegner
King County Executive Dow Constantine was expected to win the August primary, and his likely goal was to…
Opinion
It’s time to rethink Washington’s long-term care law | Brunell
Time is short, but action is necessary.
Opinion
Back to work? With new virus strain, maybe not | Roegner
COVID-19 has made the workplace more hazardous because the virus, particularly the delta variant, gets transmitted by air…
Opinion
Love and death: We don’t have forever, so we better do it now
By Dr. Bob Baugher, guest columnist
Opinion
Technology and the post-pandemic restructuring of education | Guest column
As Simon Jenkins notes in an op-ed piece in The Guardian, “Great institutions traditionally need traumas — wars…
Letters to the Editor
New education legislation signed into law | Letters
Gov. Jay Inslee recently signed into law ESSB 5044, a new education framework. It begins: “An act relating…
Opinion
King County primary election candidates to watch | Roegner
With the Aug. 3 primary election, the public will narrow the field to the finalists as only the…
Opinion
Massive reforestation effort needed in Washington and beyond | Brunell
Massive forest fires in the western parts of our country are not only choking us with layers of…
Opinion
U.S. Supreme Court: One right, one wrong | Roegner
Here’s a tale of two United States Supreme Court decisions — one right and one wrong. Despite two…
Opinion
Silver lining from Washington’s brutal heat wave | Brunell
How about some good news coming out of our record-breaking (extreme) heat wave?