With fire season upon us and the now annual plumes of smoke everywhere, pouring into our lungs and making us forget what summer in the Northwest used to be like, the Washington Farm Bureau is making s
There are no good cops. But at least we are moving toward prosecuting the very worst of the racist murderers. Three police officers in Tacoma, Wash., were charged on Thursday in the killing of a Black
This is the grave of Hazard Stevens. Born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1842, the son of the awful genocidal racist Isaac Stevens and Margaret Hazard Stevens, young Hazard followed his father out to Was
This is the grave of Isaac Stevens. Born in North Andover, Massachusetts in 1818, Stevens had a rough childhood. His father was an unloving taskmaster who forced the boy to work in the sun until he su
This is the grave of Roland Hartley. Born in 1864 in New Brunswick, Hartley was the son of a reverend, but at some point became involved in the timber industry. He moved to Minnesota and started a tim
This is the grave of Dixy Lee Ray. One of the weirdest governors in a weird era of American politics, Ray was born Marguerite Ray in 1916 in Tacoma. When she was 1930, only 14 years of age, she change
I just find regrets by white voters for Trump doing precisely what he said he would do on ethnic cleansing infuriating. From Pacific County, Washington: Named after a character in a cowboy book, Polic
As this story on Washington demonstrates, one of the many sad ironies of the election is that the counties most reliant upon the ACA for health care are also the counties most likely to vote for the f