Opinion

(Editor's Note: Jerry Robinson continues with the diary entries of 100-year-old Gertrude Finney as she recalls growing up in White Center.)

Diary 3

Between 98th & 100th was swampland. Also between 16th & 17th was swampland…MORE

FOR THE ECONOMIC VITALITY OF WEST SEATTLE AND OUR REGION THIS PROJECT MUST PROCEED.

It has been almost ten years since the Nisqually quake severely damaged the Alaskan Way viaduct. Since that time we in West Seattle and in the rest of the…MORE

On “Face the Nation” recently General Petraeus, our General in Afghanistan, was discussing the situation and what had to be done to improve our situation in Afghanistan. We are spending millions everyday in Afghanistan as you know.

It…MORE

By Sally Clark, Seattle City Council

Mayor Mike McGinn delivered his proposed budget to the Seattle City Council Sept. 27, and it’s ugly.

I don’t mean that as a slam of the mayor. Facing a $67 million funding hole that has worsened…MORE

This month Hank Bakken turns 90. Though he no longer builds remarkable houses, this modest Burien man has lived a remarkable life.

I luckily met him 30 years ago after I asked the owners of Logan Lumber (now Dunn Lumber) if they knew a…MORE

By Richard Conlin, Seattle City Council

Seattle needs a new permanent tree protection ordinance that includes incentives for property owners to preserve existing trees and plant and maintain new ones. Most importantly, we must start…MORE

One of the lost arts I mastered in my misspent youth was playing migs, also called marbles.

I am saddened to see kids today using their thumbs for pitiful things like texting and hitchhiking on I-5. Playing migs not only builds your thumb…MORE

By Susan Goding HIGHLINE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER

There is a base of information that forms the cultural references of our lives as Americans that is the essence of education.

About 10 years ago, in response to pressure to raise student…MORE

He's one of the many nameless faces that we see standing near the intersections with cardboard signs.

Most of the signs are short and sweet "Need Food. Please Help. God Bless", "Homeless Vet. Please Help" or "I won't lie, I just want…MORE

Tucked neatly on nearly every available shelf or ledge throughout her tiny White Center home, more than 1000 smallish wooden characters, red-topped roosters and miniature cups remind Audie May of her late husband Howard's uncanny knack for…MORE