An aging population and rising medical costs mean the country must get control of health-care spending, starting with Medicare, the very thing that's been politically impossible to discuss.
It's opening day for Washington state taxing the candy before it goes into a kid's mouth. Northwest writer Mark Trahant has fun with that and other news.
The contagion of bank failures is running high in the Northwest. Here's how tight money translates into local politics.
A Seattle-based NOAA team is in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico oil-spill crisis, and the scientists are hunkered down for the long haul.
Neo-prohibitionists, entrenched government workers, and probably tea-partiers will fight the giant wholesaler as its employees collect initiative signatures.
