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Inconvenient schedules make taking the bus unrealistic
Bystanders should be ashamed after Home Depot machete incident
Seattle’s school openings offer lessons for Yakima
Toppenish and Selah school levies are crucial for kids
Law enforcement tools aren’t the problem and defunding police isn’t the answer
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To many Americans, the rules that permit the Senate’s majority to be held hostage by its minority represent the worst of all worlds, making an inherently undemocratic legislative body even more so.
One of the most disturbing trends in recent economic thought is the view that green energy should be viewed as a source of good jobs. Such attitudes are bad for our polity and for our economy.
When President Joe Biden announced he was ending “the forever war” in Afghanistan by pulling out the last 3,500 or so U.S. troops based there by Sept. 11, my mind flashed to Afghans I know for whom that speech could spell prison or death.
The U.S. is once again facing a border crisis — a wave of asylum-seekers from Central America.
For more than a year, the state of California prohibited my clients, Pastor Jeremy Wong and Karen Busch, as well as countless others from every faith tradition, from meeting with other believers in their own homes to study religious texts, pray and worship together. This is because the state’s “gatherings guidance” banned all indoor gatherings in counties where COVID-19 was most widespread and limited such gatherings to no more than three households in all other counties.
On March 31, the Biden administration unveiled a much-anticipated $2 trillion infrastructure plan. The White House released a statement promising investment to “rebuild our country’s infrastructure,” acknowledging that “after decades of disinvestment, our roads, bridges and water systems are…
We are a loosely structured group of retired physicians who have lived and practiced in Yakima for three and four decades. We have become increasingly concerned about the state of medical care in our community over the past decade.
Tolstoy is dead. That’s what I thought as I turned the last page of a biography by his daughter Alexandria. More than 100 years ago. Known for “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina,” the Russian author Leo Tolstoy was more concerned about the human soul in his final decades.
Yakima County Superior Court recently declared a mistrial in a homicide case because of juror misconduct. The purpose of this writing is to explain what occurs when a court declares a mistrial and the effect it has on the court, the parties, the witnesses and the Yakima taxpayers.
“I wish my parents understood that being sad doesn’t mean I’m being lazy.”
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