Editorial

It’s going to take both tax increases and spending cuts to rein in the debt. All programs must be on the table. As the Gang of Six acknowledged in 2011, there is no easy way out.

If the goal of the tax package is to make the United States more economically competitive, penalizing students and higher education is not the way to do it.

DACA itself was born of congressional inaction. President Obama adopted it after Congress failed to pass the Dream Act, which would’ve resolved the issue

The women who stepped forward with credible claims of mistreatment were heard and believed, and there was an appropriate reckoning.

Foremost among the continuing issues will be the regenerative power of nature and the notion of justice for the Vancouver teen accused of sparking the blaze.

Pearl Harbor Day is Thursday. The following are Spokesman-Review editorials on the attack. Don’t discriminate, Dec. 11, 1942

Colorado and Utah sent out notices last week telling families they risk losing CHIP coverage if Congress doesn’t act. Other states are expected to follow suit this month.

Most fortunes are amassed, like Trump’s personal fortune, in investment holdings, 55 percent of which were capital gains and never subject to tax.

That marks a victory for those who have opposed the effort to establish Vancouver as an oil town. It also marks a reinforcement of the area’s desire to maintain and enhance the region’s strongest attribute – its natural beauty

Judge Ruhl’s ruling likely will be appealed, and it likely will land in the state Supreme Court, where it should be an easy legal call for the nine justices to rule the way Judge Ruhl did.

If legislators ever want to come out from behind their attorneys and make an affirmative case for secrecy, we’re all ears. Just make sure it’s a public hearing publicized well in advance. Heck, we might even supply the popcorn.

Looking Back reviews opinions published in The Spokesman-Review during this week in history. JFK assassination, Nov 27, 1963

Congress should be a beacon of hope on this issue, not a safe harbor for creeps.

The administration has no valid legal justification for its insistence that state and local law enforcement officers act as proxies for federal immigration agents.

The court rejected the state’s argument that the final step couldn’t be taken all of a sudden, correctly noting that the state was solely responsible for this urgency.

Today we offer the Thanksgiving proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on Oct. 3, 1863. The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.

If Mattis’ review is fair, he will conclude that there is no reason these men and women should not continue to serve.

Looking Back reviews opinions published in The Spokesman-Review during this week in history. A new president, Nov. 24, 1963

Amid all the talk about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the ACA is still around – for now – and available for those who seek health insurance. But not everything is the same.