Opinion

By Phil Brockman, Ballard High School principal; Lyn Porterfield, Ballard High School parent and former PTSA president; Don Simpson, Ballard High School Foundation president; Larry Soriano, Ballard High School PTSA president

The Feb. 9…MORE

When I was young I thought that any food considered good for you must be terrible tasting. I remember hiding spinach in my napkin and throwing it out at the first opportunity. And broccoli cooking in a pot on the stove stunk up the house big time…MORE

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about choices I made a choice nine years ago, and I certainly have had plenty of time to think about it since then.

That was when I left my (extremely) cushy federal job to work from home here on the…MORE

By Erin Schultz, Schools First

The campaign to renew the Seattle Public Schools levies hosted a campaign phone drive Jan. 20 at the campaign headquarters as King County Elections mailed out more than 360,000 ballots for the Feb. 9 special…MORE

Does Homer Simpson live in Federal Way?   I think he maybe living here along with his family and many of his relatives!  If we look at the values that we see in him and his family portray, there seems to be a great deal of coincidence between…MORE

When Pope John Paul passed away back in 2005, we learned about how spartan his life was in the instructions that he left for his personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz.

“I leave no property behind me of which it is necessary to…MORE

Why would a seller be interested in seller financing? The same reason a bank would be: interest. Charging interest allows the seller to get more than his asking price or make up for a very low purchase price through interest. In seller financing…MORE

We're only a few weeks into a brand spankin' New Year and, so far, I've done pretty well on keeping my resolution - getting back into shape.

I decided to join one of those Spinning classes, at the Highline Athletic Club in Burien. I got to…MORE

Meet Jack Burke

Jack, 87, of Hurstwood via Miles City, Montana, began flying at 16.

He started flying for Pan Am at 19, put his commercial aviation career on hold three times-to serve in World War II, Korea and Vietnam-and went on…MORE

This past week former Governor Albert D. Rossellini turned 100 years of age. In honor of this remarkable event Robinson Newspapers publisher Jerry Robinson wants to share a column he wrote during the time the Governor was in office in the 1960's…MORE