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Published Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Jun. 26, 2009

Washington blueberry growers are going to the birds.

Published Friday, Jun. 19, 2009

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.

Published Tuesday, Jun. 16, 2009

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

Published Friday, Jun. 12, 2009

I can’t resist a flashy car.

Published Monday, Jun. 08, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Jun. 05, 2009

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.

Published Tuesday, Jun. 02, 2009

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.”

Published Friday, May. 29, 2009

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

Published Wednesday, May. 27, 2009

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.

Published Friday, May. 22, 2009

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.

Published Tuesday, May. 19, 2009

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

Published Wednesday, May. 13, 2009

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

Published Monday, May. 11, 2009

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.

Published Friday, May. 08, 2009

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

Published Tuesday, May. 05, 2009

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

Published Thursday, Apr. 30, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Apr. 24, 2009

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

Published Wednesday, Apr. 22, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Apr. 17, 2009

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.

Published Wednesday, Apr. 15, 2009

Spring is having a hard time of it this year.

Published Friday, Apr. 10, 2009

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.

Published Tuesday, Apr. 07, 2009

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

Published Friday, Apr. 03, 2009

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

Published Monday, Mar. 30, 2009

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

Published Thursday, Mar. 26, 2009

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

Published Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2009

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

Published Friday, Mar. 20, 2009

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.

Published Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2009

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

Published Friday, Mar. 13, 2009

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.

Published Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2009

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.

Published Wednesday, Mar. 04, 2009

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

Published Tuesday, Mar. 03, 2009

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

Published Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009

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

Published Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009

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

Published Friday, Feb. 20, 2009

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.

Published Monday, Feb. 16, 2009

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

Published Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Feb. 06, 2009

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

Published Wednesday, Feb. 04, 2009

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.

Published Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009

“So what WERE we thinking?”

Published Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Jan. 23, 2009

So Fiat is buying a big chunk of Chrysler.

Published Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009

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

Published Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009

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?

Published Friday, Jan. 16, 2009

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

Published Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Jan. 09, 2009

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.

Published Thursday, Jan. 08, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Jan. 02, 2009

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


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