Tarot time: Get unstuck

“There is a way to bypass our limitations and the larger systems that bind us, but we cannot do it alone.”

April movie reviews

“‘Dead of Winter’ is a chilly, unsettling journey, elevated to something greater than the sum of its parts.” “‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ is one of those rare, high-concept movies that succeeds in being riotously funny while also remaining thoughtful and deeply unsettling.”

Unlimited Radio Network goes Turbo

“What began as music between heats now carries a charitable dimension.”

Get loud!: How one Latina woman in Walla Walla is fighting for her community

“I'm not scared anymore… I'm ready to make noise. I'm ready to be heard.”

Good news on climate change: Part 2

“This is doable. But only if we work together!”

T(H)E L(AN)D (FO)R THE SAC(R)IFICE(D)

“The land is here. I can feel it burn, scarred forever.”

Dreaming of recycling at your school?

“It is inspiring to see how many young people are eager to do more to help our environment.”

No atheists in foxholes

“In 2019, I wanted to die, but not so badly that I needed God to save me.” (CW: Suicidal ideation)

I, Asimov

“Asimov’s Laws of Robotics should be committed to memory by everyone concerned with the future of artificial intelligence.”

March movie review: Hamnet

“It was a difficult, harrowing, and deeply rewarding two hours.”

Haunted halls

“If you have ever walked through the echoing hallways of an empty school after dark, it’s easy to understand why they are places where hauntings are common.”

Corruption

“What the Epstein files have revealed is an international network of corruption that doesn’t care about loyalty, democracy, the law, or governments.”

Faith, Facts, and Trust

“The alleged ‘faith-science’ gap has damaged trust in both.”

The first (and only) Tap Trail update you’ll read right now

“Let’s raise a glass to another delicious and sudsy year!”

In the wake of corruption investigations, Port of Benton Commissioners may be ousted

“I am in disbelief at your continued willful disregard of the law, the truth, and more importantly, your public duty as a public servant.” —Judge Pratt

Degenerate Art Show

“The efforts to censor art, silence artists, and punish inconvenient truthtelling is all the evidence we need of how imperative it is that we keep creating, exhibiting, buying degenerate art!”

The Richland Steinway

The history of the Steinway grand piano at Richland High is entwined with the top-secret Manhattan Project and a 1940s radio star!

In my Miep Gies era

“Those of us who carry white privilege must use it to help our fellow human beings. It’s time to step up.”

We need better ‘training’

“Imagine traveling at 125mph in comfortable seats while watching the scenery pass by.”

Positive Intelligence: The inner voice of the Sage

“The Sage represents the deeper, wiser, and more compassionate part of the mind.”

Black history in the Tri-Cities

”There’s no overstating the severity of the racism to which Black folk throughout the Tri-Cities were subjected. It was vicious, and far-reaching.”

Two protests, one day

“Look at those faces… the persistent, kind-hearted Americans who see what's going on and refuse to quietly accept it.”

The cost of ‘order’

”When foreign policy shifts from national security to the management of foreign natural resources, we are no longer practicing an ‘America First’ doctrine.”

Government violence puts us all in danger

"ICE was established to make us safer following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. They have failed in that mission.”

What’s the real price of industrial agriculture in the Yakima Valley?

“Many families here in the Lower Yakima Valley have experiences with injury, illness, and death related to agricultural work.”