Writing a newspaper column is both a privilege and a burden. It seems easy at first, but as one reader advised me: “Writing a newspaper column is like being married to a nymphomaniac. It’s only fun ...

On Dec. 3, I’ll mark 35 years of writing this weather column for The Columbian — a sentence that still surprises me when I put it on paper. When I filed my very first column back in December of 1990, ...

Writing a newspaper column is easy. Just open a vein and bleed. The origin of that description varies. Famed sports columnist Red Smith is most often credited with the characterization of repeatedly ...

In most newspapers, the news, entertainment, sports and features pages are where you get to see and understand what is going on in the world. The opinion page is where you get to consider how to ...

By Herman M. LagonBefore the first whistle of the Regional Schools Press Conference (RSPC) 2026 competition, before the ...

David Brooks recently retired from writing his regular column (twice weekly for about 30 years) in the New York Times. He was ...