A writer critical of Israel complained (letter, 11-27) that the “corporate media” did not report that “Congress came together ... and gave Israel an extra $1 billion” for defense.

Re: “Hospitals lose break, car fees rise” (TNT, 11-28).

True to form, some weed heads hailed the arrival of legal marijuana Thursday by breaking the law that legalized it.

An uncooperative economy has stymied many a big plan for Tacoma’s Foss Waterway. But there’s something to be said for holding your own.

Just this once, I wish I could write with pictures instead of words. That would make it easier to explain why the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died Wednesday at 104, was one of my heroes.

The recent vote by America’s catholic bishops to move Dorothy Day along toward canonization was controversial, but mainly among those who manufacture controversy for a living. The media have enjoyed pointing out that Day’s main advocate, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, is a traditionalist, while Day was a socialist who once had an abortion. It must be something like a conservative president nominating a raging liberal to the Supreme Court, except with eternal tenure at stake.

Peter Callaghan’s article (TNT, 12-3) about the crash of an Air Force transport at McChord in 1952 ago brought back memories.

Economics is the only field in which two people can each receive a Nobel Prize for saying the opposite thing. Politics is the only field that will blindly follow either one or the other economic theory to the death, while not understanding either.

Numerous articles and commentaries from inside and outside of academia are raising the alarm that American public higher education faces an unprecedented financial crisis.

Doc, you’ve got to help me. I miss the presidential campaign.

I recently sat down to look through our photo files from the past year to put together one of those holiday cards with family pictures on it. As I looked through the files, I realized how many pictures we had of our son, yet how few we had of me or my husband.