The first article of this column was published on January 8 of this year, marking exactly one year since its debut. Looking ...

On Dec. 3, I’ll mark 35 years of writing this weather column for The Columbian — a sentence that still surprises me when I put it on paper. When I filed my very first column back in December of 1990, ...

In the mid-90s, Ron Howard directed a gritty movie about the inner workings of a daily newspaper. “The Paper” included a memorable rant from the newspaper’s executive editor, played by the actor ...

After having spent about 30 years tromping through the outdoors to gain material for a weekly column, I’ve decided to call it quits. This column will be the end of the line. It’s not that I plan to ...

Every Monday for more than 30 years, Mychal Wilmes starts to think about what will become his next column. “Then it kind of mulls around in my head,” Wilmes said recently over coffee at a cafe in ...