Iran’s ruling cabal seemed to think that if it followed the dictator’s handbook and kicked out foreign journalists, its election fiddling and violent suppression of anti-government demonstrators might receive less attention from the world.

Washington blueberry growers are going to the birds.

When we added the comic Tundra to the Herald on May 11, we asked readers for feedback on other comics they would like to see.

Tri-City Herald readers are sticklers for detail as they pore over our weather page each day.

I can’t resist a flashy car.

Jason Moore of West Richland took Tri-City broadcasters to task in our Sunday letters to the editor column because of “absolutely no radio or television coverage for any of our kids participating in state tournaments” on May 29-30.

Across the Mid-Columbia, thousands of soon-to-be high school graduates, their parents, grandparents, friends and relatives all are bracing for one of the region’s most significant events of the year.

When President Barack Obama announced his choice for the pending U.S. Supreme Court vacancy, he touted Judge Sonia Sotomayor as someone who has “an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live.”

There are hundreds of Tri-Citians who use marijuana regularly — and legally.

A seattlepi.com blogger has taken a broader look at the issue of radio and TV broadcasters’ plagiarism of newspaper news reports after seeing my April 30 column.

Since I grew up in Montana about 14 miles from the Continental Divide, I’ve always valued wilderness for the solitude, solace and sense of place it instills.

Everyone seems to know many big-city newspapers are struggling to survive.

Could an old Latin proverb still apply in the 21st century media landscape?

A piece of President Obama’s budget that hasn’t drawn as much attention as other high-profile programs would finally bury the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project in Nevada.

Have a certain fondness for snowmen, large bears and animal jokes?

Reporters sometimes have a hard time believing it, but the best friend they can ever have is a sharp copy editor.

In the newspaper world, plagiarism has always been a capital crime. It usually will get the plagiarist fired or, for a lesser offense, suspended without pay and reprimanded.

Can a newspaper website thrive once it no longer has the power of print behind it?

The folks who believe guns are evil aren’t having a very good time lately. Though the Democrats are back in power, there’s no appetite in Washington, D.C., for new gun control laws.

Newspaper editors, reporters and photographers tend to think the part of the newspaper they create — the news stories, page layouts and photographs — are what’s really important to readers.

Spring is having a hard time of it this year.

The Tri-Cities has had a boom and bust economy ever since the early 20th century when land speculators were promoting schemes to make the desert blossom into orchards and farm fields.

Historical photo galleries have been a huge hit on tricityherald.com.

Newspaper reporters and editors live almost every workday in the express lane.

Of the nation’s last 12 presidents, who had the best chance to influence the composition of the U.S. judicial system?

Sometimes I come across a thought about newspapers that deserves to be shared, so here’s a couple of the latest.

Give at least one agency credit for taking the state’s $9 billion budget deficit seriously.

I’ve never been a big fan of television, perhaps because my Mom wouldn’t have one in the house until after her children were out of high school.

OLYMPIA — So just how firmly do Washington’s city and county officials believe in open government?

OLYMPIA — Although the state’s budget deficit was still the front-and-center topic on the Capitol campus Thursday, the pending execution of Cal Coburn Brown also was on many officials’ minds.

Headlines, the quick summary of a long story that may contain many diverse points of view, are regularly the biggest source of complaints I hear from Herald readers.

We at the Herald are accustomed to readers correcting our grammar and spelling.

Google someone on the web, and it’s amazing the bits and pieces of a life that you can find.

One vital fact has been lost amid all the news stories that report the imminent demise of U.S. newspapers.

If you’re thinking there’s something different or strangely familiar about a couple of Herald comics, you’re right.

The Associated Press was in the news itself the other day in a story that should strike fear into the hearts of radio and television news directors.

I know it’s too late for Valentine’s Day, but this just showed up.

Listening to speeches is a routine part of being a newspaper reporter or editor. And often the speeches are a match in appeal to the rubber chicken that accompanies them.

So, after a 30-year moratorium, Sweden is again preparing to build nuclear plants.

I recall spending an entire summer’s day outside in the shade poring over Walter Lord’s account of the attack on Pearl Harbor, “Day of Infamy,” first published in 1957.

“So what WERE we thinking?”

A Herald reader who was annoyed by the Prosser City Council’s decision to charge up to $20 for residents to register a car and to allot the money to street improvements recently asked where all that gas tax money goes.

So Fiat is buying a big chunk of Chrysler.

So our new president plans to keep his BlackBerry. And he will be the first sitting U.S. president to use e-mail.

Whenever I see a military color guard, I have to admit that there’s one thing I always notice: Which of the U.S. Army, Navy or Marine Corps rifles from the 20th Century are they carrying?

As a now 40-year veteran of newspapering, I’ve spent four decades obsessing over names.

President-elect Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Energy thinks nuclear power plants offer promise for the nation’s energy woes — and so does tricityherald.com columnist Kirsten Peters.

One of the better internet spoofs out there that’s fooling a lot of folks is a bogus story that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had a great-great uncle, Remus Reid, who was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889.

When the Herald’s press swallowed a piece of itself early Thursday morning and choked, the press crew had to perform two hours of emergency surgery to get it back online.

Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has reached an interesting conclusion.