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How best to spend, save and raise money will be a recurring theme when Washington lawmakers convene in Olympia next week for their annual “committee days.”  The state is facing a budget shortfall that’s poised to dominate the 2026 session, which begins Jan. 12. Data centers, vaccine safety, bridges hit by trucks, and the states […]

“Oh, I love writing my columns.” With those words, Republican candidate for governor Charlotte O’Hara launched into her answer to my question: Why write and publish dozens of personal political columns on her campaign website? “I think that many candidates speak in platitudes and they don’t speak in specifics,” O’Hara said this week. “That’s a […]

Dutch firms are betting that hulls made with 3D printing machines will mean cheaper boats.

In true feline style, cats took their time in deciding when and where to join us on the sofa.

In true feline style, cats took their time in deciding when and where to join us on the sofa.

She's not a big fan of electric cars and solar energy, but she does like coal: Diana Furchtgott-Roth is one of the leading authors of "Project 2025." DER SPIEGEL wanted to know more about how the Heritage Foundation strategist thinks.

On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved valets — William “Billy” Lee and the young Christopher Sheels — he powdered his hair, put on his favorite black velvet suit, tied his white neckwear and donned his yellow gloves. Finally ready, he set out to travel the short distance from […]

The Thursday of Thursdays has arrived, that being our yearly attempt to act grateful and kind while huddling around an enormous dead bird. Ha! I kid, because Thanksgiving of course lives in our hearts and minds as a meaningful holiday, not just an excuse for four days away from work and trampling our fellow humans […]

The sessions in December and January aim to bring people in Wolverhampton together during the colder months.

The sessions in December and January aim to bring people in Wolverhampton together during the colder months.

The Pilgrims were idiots. If they had just taken a sharp left at Plymouth Rock and sailed southward for another 500 miles, they could have spent that first winter luxuriating at a hotel in St. Augustine. The Spanish settlers in St. Augustine had beaten them to the New World by more than 50 years. They’d […]

Democratic state lawmakers are once again eyeing a statewide version of a Seattle tax on companies with large payrolls and high-paid employees. Proposed legislation crafted by Rep. Shaun Scott, D-Seattle, aims to raise more than $2 billion a year. His idea is for this money to go to education, health care and human service programs […]