Opinion

Wearing a nametag that spells out just her first name in capital letters, Shirley presides behind the cash register at the gift shop in the visitor’s center at Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. She has been managing the gift shop since a month after she…MORE

Watching the garbage collection strike unfold is almost amusing save for the fact that it will eventually cost us all more money. Allowing trash to mount for a few days isn't that big of a deal. It is more of an annoying symbol of the…MORE

It has been reported that property tax revenue in Burien is down 8.8 percent for 2012 and revenues will be down another 4.5 percent in 2013.

These figures are from the city of Burien's finance director.

This will put a strain on…MORE

(Editor’s Note: This letter was sent to King County Councilmember Julia Patterson with a copy to the Times/News. The writer included a news article on Normandy Park resident Erlin Garcia-Reyes. Garcia-Reyes pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run…MORE

I suggest the cities of Des Moines and SeaTac and the Port of Seattle collaborate to upgrade the Des Moines sewage treatment plant to Level Three so the water going into the creek and Puget Sound is fit for humans and sea life to drink.

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(Editor’s Note: This letter was sent to SeaTac City Councilmember Dave Bush with a copy to the Highline Times.)

Dear Council member Bush,

Your off record comments at the end of the RCM on 07/10/12 calling me a racist were…MORE

If the annexation meeting at the Dubsea Coffee Shop is any indication of what begin a part of Burien is like, COUNT ME OUT.

As a meeting place it was hot, noisy with loud fans, the coffee grinder going and not enough chairs. The City…MORE

It was the most exciting day in this 8 year-old Burien boy’s life. Certainly more momentous than four years earlier when my parents brought my baby sister home from the hospital.

It was a summery August day so I should have obeyed my mom’s…MORE

By Pat Cashman(Editor’s Note: Pat Cashman, well known Seattle personality, writer, comic actor and more, knew J.P. Patches as a personal friend and wanted to share his thoughts about him.)

For some of us---after we’ve shuffled off this…MORE

By Zachariah Bryan Many may have missed Stan Boreson, “The King of Scandinavian Humor,” at this year’s SeafoodFest. That’s because Boreson, who has opened for the event for many years now, has retired.

“I’ve done it for 70 years,” Boreson…MORE