Opinion

Am I the only one who thinks that the advances in communication technology, which were supposedly attempts to create better communication, have actually made communication and relationships exceedingly worse?

See if any of this rings a…MORE

When a percentage of sales and real estate taxes are the primary public revenue resource in a city of about 30,000 souls and the community spending economy is in the dumps, what's to celebrate?

Des Moines Mayor Bob Sheckler answered these…MORE

Somehow I got hooked on Nero Wolfe mystery novels. That's strange because if I envisioned my own crime fiction series, my protagonist certainly wouldn't be a fat guy who rarely leaves his house, lives with two men and tends orchids in the attic…MORE

(Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of articles on longtime Fauntleroy resident Morey Skaret, whose family moved to West Seattle in the early 1920s after enduring the rigors of the Canadian prairie for a dozen years.)

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The following Op-Ed article originally appeared in the West Seattle Herald print edition on April 2. It prompted a response. The author of the original piece responded . We present all three in sequence.-

By Alie Fathi

The old homestead is looking very different these days.

In 1999, Dad donated the five acres where my four siblings and I grew up to the City of Burien.

The last time I had been up to Mathison Park was last summer at the family…MORE

As they might say on “Prairie Home Companion,” “It was an interesting week in Education”

Several events, I believe, are all tied to just a few basic problems that we have in education.

1. Locally several of our middle school…MORE

For those of you who play golf or follow golf on television this is the week of the Masters tournament in Augusta and the world will be watching Tiger Woods and his search for redemption and forgiveness as he renews his miraculous artistry with a…MORE

Have you ever sat in church, on a bus or in a theatre and just looked around at people? I particularly look at seniors and wonder what they looked like, when they were kids or in their 20s.

However, my real curiosity is beyond how they…MORE

City Manager Tony Piasecki wrote in response to Des Moines Chief of Police Roger Baker's retirement announcement:

"On behalf of the residents of the City of Des Moines, the City Council, and city staff, thank you for your service to the…MORE