I do not presume to know when human life begins. What I am fairly sure however, is that — behind all the fire and brimstone of the “pro-life” crowd, there is a fundamental determining belief t…

Two large developments are planned for Moscow, the first involving the annexing of 235 acres of farmland, but initially plating only 27. The second development is 82 acres. Both traffic in lan…

My former partner, Gail Adele, and I enjoyed great travel adventures (26 countries), collaborated professionally on solid geometry and shared church duties.

Our alley boasts a generous collection of towering evergreen trees, and the sun-warmed pine needles blanketing the ground last week gave off a magical scent I always associate with high mounta…

The virus that causes COVID-19 evolved to do one thing: replicate. That means the virus establishes an infection in a host where the virus instructs host cells to make many copies of the virus…

The first college I attended had the motto, “Freedom with responsibility.” I flunked out, but I remember the motto. I thought of it when I read Jim Jones’s column (Daily News, April 27) on the…

“We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, therewas nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”

At the end of 2020 and into 2021, we entered into a bull run for cryptocurrencies. Some people remember back in 2017 when Bitcoin became a household name. That is when I became interested in B…

The Earth Day program I watched recently on television gave me a lot of food for thought. It covered aspects of the subject that had never occurred to me and caused me to evaluate my own actio…

As a former federal and state prosecutor, I am acutely aware of the lasting impact sexual assault has on victims and their families. I am also aware of the physical and emotional toll and brav…

Who owns the English language? More profoundly, who decides if an opinion is valid or invalid? Like many others of my generation, I am often frustrated by the politically correct dicta that cl…

I appreciate Doug Call (His View, April 21) responding to one of my previous columns. I also appreciate the Daily News for allowing me to voice what I’m convinced will be the vindicated positi…

My friend Bob once told me I have a gift for oversharing. I’m not sure he meant it as a compliment. He said it in response to a picture I had posted on social media of my hair first thing that…

Jennifer Ostyn and thousands like her across this great country are vitally important to the preservation and improvement of our system of self-government. Jennifer teaches civics at Valley Hi…

It’s been a tough week in the world. Derek Chauvin’s trial, where he was sentenced to prison for second-degree murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, might be considered as a positive. But Flo…

In the past few decades, airports have emerged as a regional economy’s most prominent, if not the most important, transportation asset. As Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport Executive Director To…

“I think we just delivered the South to theRepublican Party for a long time to come.”

April 8 was Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, and Jews there and around the world are recoiling in horror as America’s right-wing extremists, inspired by ex-president Trump’s bigotry, openl…

A few months ago, my sixth grader asked me a series of interview questions for a school project. The interview was broken up into sections about early life, college years, career, family, hist…

NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt recently received the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism from Washington State University. Hall is cited as recently saying, “The ide…

I couldn’t have imagined it — praising Time, the New York Times, Scientific American, The Economist, the New York Post and Fox News in the same column! But here goes.

Driving past the ball fields near my house the other evening, I experienced waves of nostalgia, the stabby kind, the “aw, gee, shucks” heartwarming kind, worthy of a Hallmark Channel Movie. Yo…

Mass shootings have been a hot-button issue and it may be too raw to write about. However, there is an angle that could be far more disturbing to not talk about.

Last week, images of the future Moscow-Pullman airport were twice on display for public review and comments. They showed plans, perspectives, or what the firm behind them calls “exterior chara…

Lately, I feel like I’m living in a whirlwind with a bunch of stuff all happening at once. First off, my yard helper began picking up more and more shingle fragments from my roof, which settle…

My last column touched a nerve with some readers, one of whom denounced me as a “ … woke, bitter little man.” Bitter, OK, I do have teenagers at home, but wielding the word “woke” as a cudgel …

No, no, no, columnist Chuck Pezeshki! (A definite “no” to the idea of vaccine passports, April 10) You are upside down on COVID-19, influenza, vaccinations, boundary violation, existential thr…

The longer I live, the more aware I become that sometimes the best solution to a problem is seemingly counterintuitive.

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the demise of the media acting in their role as the Fourth Estate. Right on the heels of that article, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt was awarded the Edward R…

Freedom House, a watchdog group dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy around the world, has issued their latest report. No existing trend changes worthy of note; 2020 marks the 1…