Opinion

So, what's one to do for Thanksgiving, if they're single, don't have a local family or hate to cook?

Well, I'll tell you what I did. I headed down to the Mark Restaurant in Burien.

On the 23rd, I was perusing my emails and came…MORE

Meet a couple of ambitious youngsters we bumped into when we dropped into Page 2 Books in Burien this week.

The charming owner, Gayle Collins introduced me. At left is Lorena Lemurs, 12th grader at Mt Rainier High, who plans on becoming a…MORE

By Ken Robinson Watching a garage fully involved in fire from the perspective of a TV helicopter the other day I saw something familiar but which many of us take for granted. It was the sight of a firefighter moving purposefully up to the face of…MORE

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(Editor's Note: The Board of Directors of the Newfoundland Club of Seattle wrote the following op-ed after attending the vigil for Rosie, the Newfoundland dog shot by Des Moines police. They said their hope is that this event can bring the…MORE

(Editor's Note: Jerry Robinson was scanning the trees and the water last week for an usual sights.)

"Many times I've heard this comment, 'It's starting to look less like a war zone and more like a marina again' or something similar, from people walking by or through the Des Moines Marina this past month, " observed Doreen Torseth, contract…MORE

At 25 Morey Skaret had already "rode the rods" to Wyoming and back. It was depression-era travel at its cheapest.

Riding under the boxcar on two-inch thick rods was considered the most dangerous aspect of hobo life but this young man from…MORE

Frank Chopp, Speaker of the Washington House, recently suggested that the continued financial “crisis” that we are facing will require the State to re-examine what the State can, and cannot, do for the citizens and called this a “Reset.” The “…MORE

Alas, the fun is over How can I go on with life I feel as bad as if someone Had stabbed me with a knife

No more enlightening TV ads Where candidates explain Their points of view instead About opponents just complain

I’ll miss those…MORE