Opinion

Hanford’s progress heartening in era of Covid-19 challenges
The Hanford nuclear site cleanup work happening in our backyard costs billions of dollars and relies on a complicated network...

Surging state revenue should quell talk of raising taxes amid ongoing pandemic
As state lawmakers enter the final weeks of the 2021 legislative session – and the start of the second year...

Crisis in the Suez Canal highlights global supply chain weakness
The Ever Given’s six-day grounding in one of the narrowest parts of the Suez Canal underscores the vulnerability of the...

Is the Tri-Cities growing as if the future matters?
History tells us that what we call the Tri-Cities started out as one railroad town and a handful of tiny...

Want to see what local innovation looks like?
The first anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic shutdowns that rattled the Tri-Cities as well as the world coincide with the...

Tri-Cities helps pilot portal to link interns with prospective employers
In the last few months, dozens of Washington students have gone online and signed up for accounts in a new...

Our Second Amendment rights are under attack
The U.S. Constitution guarantees law-abiding Americans the right to keep and bear arms, but once again, our Second Amendment rights...

Future Badger forums tackle free speech, polarization of America
Like many organizations that survived the coronavirus pandemic — at least we think we’re surviving —the Columbia Basin Badger Club...