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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Authorities believe a suspect in a pair of armed robberies was armed with a knife when a police officer shot and killed him in the parking lot of a North Carolina shopping center.
Lt. Brad Koch of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Thursday that investigators believe 32-year-old Michael Daniel Kelley brandished a knife before Officer Timothy Kiefer fatally shot him Wednesday.

In response to Mr. Bob Rodgers, “Semi-automatic ban is ridiculous” (Our Readers’ Views, Jan. 11): “Along with every other service member who enlisted or was drafted in all of America’s calls to arms.”
Don’t pretend to speak for me, or any of the other veterans. Let them speak for themselves.

The crisis is the small uptick in border crossings (according to international laws we are party to, all border crossings are not automatically illegal). The crisis is the six possible terrorists they apprehended at the Mexican border (but not the 42 apprehended at the Canadian border). The crisis is the drugs coming across the border (the 10 percent, but not the 90 percent that come in other ways, and certainly not the drug manufacturers responsible for the opioid crisis).

Floor plans and furnishings aside, the average person would be hard-pressed to see the differences between an updated mid-century home and a state-of-the-art, new-construction home–after all, walls are walls. Right?
Not exactly.
Technological advancements are radically reshaping every industry in America, and housing is no exception.
Advances in insulation-material sciences, home conditioning equipment performance, and even property landscaping approaches have allowed for substantial gains in energy efficiency in new construction homes.

I was pleased by Rick Krahn’s recent letter (Our Readers’ Views, Dec. 29) in which he spoke to the need for improvements in the way we select our elected representatives. I’d like to expand on his thoughts.

Looking at history can help guide policymaking in the future. That’s why Jaime Herrera Beutler’s sea lion bill that she fought hard to get passed and signed into law is monumental for this region.
In the early 1990s, the government didn’t act quickly enough to address the exploding sea lion population up north in the Ballard Locks and the winter steelhead in Lake Washington were decimated. Now, we have a growing crisis in the Columbia River, where endangered salmon and steelhead runs are on the verge of disappearing because of the sea lion population.

Our sun and billions of stars just like it are headed for a strange, cold destiny.