Opinion

I love vegetable gardening….and trees.

Trouble is, they are incompatible.

Trying to turn over the soil just got me a shovelful of roots. And with all that shade, forget about growing big, juicy vegetables that resemble the ones on…MORE

By Brian LeBlanc

In February 2013, the first residents started to move into the AVA Ballard complex on NW Market St and 14th Ave NW where Sunset Bowl once stood. Back in 2008, there was hope that the Sunset could be saved and moved to a…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

If you've ever been around children, you've probably noticed that they can watch the same movie or read the same book or play the same game again and again pretty much indefinitely. As of this week, my niece's favorite…MORE

By Rev. Judith Laxer

The year grows. The third month marches in and flowers begin to bloom in the northwest garden. Primrose and Crocus boast the first welcome colors in the landscape. Lenten Rose hangs delicately from her yellow green…MORE

I was fishing with my brother Russell in the Columbia River Slough one summer day in 1928. I was eight, he was ten.

The murky, slow moving river had lots of crappies, perch, catfish, carp and chubs and hundreds of logs next to a shingle…MORE

Right on the heels of Hollywood’s Golden Globes and Oscars came Burien’s awards season.

Discover Burien and the city of Burien used to jointly give out annual awards but now they present dueling honors.

The Highline Times presents…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

To continue from last week, though I had a lot of fun, I sadly never got to meet Gillian Anderson at Emerald City Comicon. You know those 6-inch heels I mentioned before? Well, those had something to do with it. Turns out I…MORE

By Corbin Lewars

This past weekend I took my first fiction writing class in over twenty years. It happened to fall on the same weekend as my birthday, which I viewed as an auspicious way to kick off my forty-third year. After years of…MORE

“Didn’t you tell them we didn’t have a fireplace damper?” Martin asked me afterwards. “They didn’t ask,” I claimed. When scheduling the energy audit with Sustainable Works there was discussion about cleaning the fireplace beforehand because of a…MORE

(Editor’s Note: Scott Anthony is substituting for Jerry Robinson this week.)

Is it me or are people on the road becoming more aggressive all the time?

Maybe it's full moon syndrome or spring fever. Tax time is nearing and that tends…MORE