Pulling up now-deep roots to learn about new community - We moved the first time when I was 5, from Weston, Ore., to Milton-Freewater. Then at 11, to Eugene. At 16, I went to Los Ang...
Groo groo: The sound a happy brain makes testing its Thanksgiving knowledge? - At my cousin's house in Kennewick, where we will all gather for our family's traditional Thanksgiving feast, there will be fo...
Odds are, you're reading this first - Believe it or not, journalism organizations actually study how you look at newspaper pages and news Web sites, and publish th...
Pass time with hail to the chief quiz - For most of us at this point in the painfully protracted presidential campaign, there is absolutely nothing else we need (or ...
Write to put reader first - When the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association invited me to put together a workshop for its 121st annual convention in...
YH-R unleashing student talent throughout paper - (Unleashed is) the equivalent of a teen who wants to be a doctor getting to work at a hospital for a couple of years. It's ha...
Central Washington's concerns will get statewide airing - The production crew from TVW rolls into town Monday morning to begin our most ambitious schedule yet of videotaped endorsemen...
We're in: 'For Better or For Worse' - A year ago, "For Better or For Worse" creator Lynn Johnston introduced a new approach to her wildly popular comic strip.
Election polls are getting harder to phone in - The Democratic National Convention opens in Denver on Monday, followed a week later by the Republican National Convention in ...
Two more ways for yakimaherald.com users to connect - Odds and ends: Want to take a look inside the newsroom? There's a place to do that, in our cleverly named "Inside the Newsroo...