Editorial Board
John Winn Miller, president and publisher
Vickie Kilgore, executive editor
Mike Oakland, editorial page editor
Cheryl Fambles, community representative
Peter Reid, community representative
Happy birthday, America!
Thurston County commissioners, in collaboration with elected and appointed officials in Lacey, Olympia and Tumwater, have created a Law and Justice Council to coordinate criminal justice issues that stretch beyond jurisdictional boundaries.
Join The Olympian’s editorial board in welcoming Cheryl Fambles and Peter Reid, the two new community representatives.
The world's population will reach 7 billion by 2012, according to a U.S. Census Bureau projection released recently. To borrow from the adage about seeing the glass either "half empty or half full," should we see that amazing statistic as evidence of humanity's vibrancy or evidence that our planet is now too full - of people?
Timberland Regional Library, which operates libraries in five southwest Washington counties, is in a tough financial spot — a $1.9 million budget shortfall by year's end.
Olympia officials have issued a desperate plea for South Sound residents to be on the lookout for copper wire thieves.
The Port of Tacoma has abandoned plans to build a logistics and cargo shipping center on 745 acres of port-owned property near Maytown.
Turning a portion of the old Thurston County landfill off Marvin Road into a park-and-ride parking lot for commuters makes great sense.
Thumbs up: Summer camps
The competition to build Olympia’s new City Hall is down to two design-development teams.
Attorney General Rob McKenna has added Washington to a growing list of states in support of a federal law to protect reporters who refuse to name their confidential sources. Washington and dozens of other states have so-called shield laws, so it’s time Congress adopted federal protections.
The Lacey City Council should vote tonight to authorize police to write $100 civil infraction citations for residents who violate Lacey’s ban on the discharge of fireworks.
A drug-dealing state manager faces more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to six felonies related to selling prescription Vicodin and OxyContin to a teenage family friend.
Blame for the budget crisis at the Thurston County Courthouse should be placed at the feet of the three county commissioners.
Call it the "manatee wars," a decade during which environmentalists clashed with boaters and developers over whether the slow-moving sea cow should be downgraded to "threatened" from its current listing as an "endangered" species. ...
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