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 ...