Op-Ed
The ‘capital gains’ game: Whatever the spin, it’s an income tax | Op-Ed
In Washington, the push-and-pull over income taxes — lawmakers want them, voters don’t — is so routine as to become a tradition.Don't miss
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Free Press Initiative
Indiana publisher irrigates the news desert | Brier Dudley / Free Press editor
It's great to see billionaires trying to save top-tier daily newspapers in big cities. But such civic-minded investors are especially needed at local and regional newspapers that provide most of the local reporting in their communities.
Northwest Voices
Bystander inaction: Education is the antidote | Letter to the editor
The Op-Ed “Why bystanders fail to intervene when strangers need help” helps explain the inaction of bystanders when they see the needs of the “other” rather than as the needs of “one of us.” This mindset can best be changed through education, something on which the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle is focused. The...