The history books will tell you, in dates and figures and disciplined narrative, what things were like at given times. In the 1920s, for example, Sarasota boomed, and Karl Grismer’s 1946 book “The Story of Sarasota” explained it with vivid ...

"I feel like a 12-year-old girl at a Ricky Martin concert." -- Initiative promoter Tim Eyman, exulting over the death in committee of Senate Bill 5575, which would have allowed state college admissions' offices to consider a student's race. Eyman ...

The Senate briefly sounded like a sportscast Monday, as Vancouver-area lawmakers pushed through a formal resolution touting the victory of the Prairie High School Falcons over Spokane's Central Valley High School at the state class 4A girls ...

Tyler Honeycutt, the No. 6 SF in the Class of 2009, is heading to UCLA. Heading into the season, the Pac-10 is widely considered one of the top three conferences in the country, along with the Big East and ACC, but recruiting-wise, the conference is ...

THE PHONE RINGS. As usual, I don't want to answer. I look at the digital readout and notice a 509 area code and the lettering "SIESTA MOTEL." The Siesta Motel? In Colfax? Curiosity gets the best of me. "Hello," I say. "Hey loser, how the hell are ya ...

They also serve. Writers of literature may get most of the attention, but teachers of literature also make a crucial difference in the life of the printed word. Alex Kuo has devoted 45 years to teaching literature and writing at the college level ...

In his latest film, Daniel Craig plays an arrogant, fortysomething British actor who loses his soul in Hollywood. Is he trying to tell us something? Liz Hoggard interrogates the Bond star about his risqué pet project Daniel Craig is telling me about ...

Life has taught me many lessons like, never pass 14 cars in a row and give the "bird" to the motor home driving 45 mph in a 60 mph zone on your way to Pullman. That "bird" left me stranded four miles down the road with a blown-out fan belt. The motor ...

Well, it's over. Like a bad date that you didn't want to end just because you knew you had nothing else to do but sit on your couch but you also knew you didn't want to be where you are, Michigan is done for '08. Saturdays are dead to me now. Nothing ...

“I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.” There’s a line that came back to haunt President Bush after his win in 2004. Barack Obama wisely refrains from crowing about his political capital, despite an ...