Opinion

Return to sanity on dam issue

Voting for Mead School Board candidates

Let both sides be fairly heard

By Francisco R. Velázquez, M.D., S.M., FCAP

By Julian Matthews, Lizzy Pennock and James Holt

The answer to climate change

By Will Booth

In the U.S., the average woman spends so much more time on chores than the average man that to equalize the load, women would have to quit the housework entirely on Sept. 5 for the remainder of the year. And that represents progress: The gender gap in chores narrowed a bit from last year, when women would have had to quit on Aug. 29, a day I dubbed “Equal Housework Day.”

If all goes well, Japan will become at least the fourth country with a moon mission this year, making lunar exploration more active than it’s been in five decades. The renaissance is being led by nations not usually considered leaders of the space race, which is an important development for the entire planet.

Dear Kiantha,

Mayor uses revisionist facts

Querida Kiantha,

KEWU goes the way of the dodo

On Oct. 29 the cost of building a new home in the state of Washington is projected to increase substantially, thanks to the State Building Code Council. Spokane County Commissioner Al French is working to mitigate those costs for the more than 350 families who lost homes in the Oregon Road and Gray fires. It could mean the difference between their full recovery and economic disaster.