Opinion

Kellen Bryan is a student at Washington Middle School who lives in West Seattle. He will be graduating from eighth grade soon and wrote a free verse poem, entitled “Big Steps,” about how he is feeling about this new change he will be making…MORE

Just as a robin in the spring Returns, so do our memories bring Us back to find the road ahead Is one we have already tread

A memory can be bittersweet Like lover’s eyes that never meet And tender as a baby’s face Or soldier’s welcome home…MORE

(Editor's Note: Jerry Robinson replies to this letter about a previous column.)

As a lifelong Pantheist I want to assure Eric Dickman and others I am a tree lover and the root of my rant about enticing tourism is purely about bringing…MORE

By Bill Hoffman

Too much of late has been written of the need of political engagement when the political dialog at all levels is mired in partisan politics and in process. This is because how we go about something has become the end game.…MORE

Is our Education System Bankrupt? Is it like General Motors and “Too big to fail?”

Sadly this would seem to be the case. Locally I recently checked our achievement levels on our state’s WASL for math and found that while we had 320 kids…MORE

For obvious reasons, I've always been fascinated by struggling writers.

Robert Dugoni used to be in that category. Dugoni is the author of the David Sloane legal thriller series.

The fictional Sloane, "the lawyer who does not lose…MORE

Have you seen the movie "Food Inc."? I've known about it since it came out, but just got around to watching it. Nothing it the movie surprised me, but it did re-ignite the fire of indignation in me at how we are so misled in the name of…MORE

By Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles

The 2010 regular and special legislative sessions have adjourned. While we worked diligently to complete our work by March 13, it turned out that 60 days was not enough time to balance our budget while facing a…MORE

Many years ago before Burien became an incorporated city, I contacted the King County Parks department and met with the official in charge of the Dotty Harper park.

He came out and we traipsed the tree covered terrain.

I was a good…MORE

Evergreen swimming pool has reopened and that is great.

Now kids can stop sneaking into Lake Hicks, which is headquarters for swimmers itch in White Center where my kids grew up. That rash put little red blisters on the boys that came from…MORE