As Trump’s populist base learns the details of his “Big Beautiful Bill,” Republican members of Congress will face consequences.

Like a diamond in the rough, the plant brings with it not only its awesome past history but an imagined present.

Dan Evans could win statewide elections, which today’s MAGA Republicans have yet to do. The “Drill, baby, Drill” party of Trump denies global warming and would despoil the land -- not a winning formula in the Evergreen State.

I know you have plenty of community groups that look after people and places on the wet side of the mountains, but thought I would chronicle a few of ours, if nothing else to encourage you to join in and/or thank your own doers of good community deeds.

I don’t know that we solved any of the world’s problems as we walked and talked, but we did at least for a time solve the modern problem of living in a high-tech, too much information, too much sitting culture.

Newspaper people talk a lot to people who stick their necks out, and Bert stuck his neck out further than most.