Opinion

Did you ever wonder why we know so much about some things and almost nothing about other things? It all depends upon who is able to secure a research grant to find out. I know you have heard it from me before but here again it depends upon the…MORE

To be safe, how can we know when people or pets really are brewing up a hurricane force of hatred &/or mental instability?

Miss Katrina, my Shih Tzu is a social butterfly. I've gotta watch that little girl every time we're in public…MORE

For ten years I have been driving down a narrow street to our house and almost every day I have been confronted by a plug ugly little spitfire of a dog who challenges me to a duel in the sun, rain or snow.

He is standing in the road,…MORE

By Gertrude Finney(Editor's Note: These are the final two diary entries to be printed in the Times/News. Mrs. Finney died last week at the age of 100.)Diary 7 Seattle Public Library had a station in Rossner's Grocery at 16th and Barton in '24.…MORE

Open Letter to Chief Diaz

At about 10:15 a.m. on November 30th I was traveling Westbound on the West Seattle bridge and noticed a car on the Eastbound side stopped precariously in the merging triangle. The car had its emergency lights…MORE

By Michael Miller On a recent visit to the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle I was saddened to see that yet another landmark has disappeared. The Totem House, Seafood and Chowder, Family recipes since 1948, has given up the fight leaving a note on…MORE

There is an air of mystery about her that hauntingly recalls fairytale stories of a beautiful princess beckoning from the castle to her prince passing by. Perched high on a hill she is irreplaceable, one of a kind, a past haven to many, and…MORE

By Mark Davis

“Ballard is rapidly becoming a community of carpetbaggers and commuters.  More than 100 years after the first land boom in Ballard, another land boom is making affordable housing a faint but fond memory.” - quoted from Early…MORE

(Editor's Note: As promised last week, Jerry Robinson recalls some of the highlights of over half a centuryof bringing readers the local news. He starts with the White Center News.)

Though main street on the county side of White Center in…MORE

I have always gloried in being the father of a flock of boys.

Macho thing? Perhaps. But it gave me a sense of uniqueness. Just lucky, but I have always liked being envied for my brood. Of course, it is just chance at work.

Those…MORE