Opinion

While in Lacey a couple of weekends ago I heard my partner's mother comment on the "Swine Flu Ready to Explode" headlines in the Olympian. We all should be "bracing for a second wave of Swine Flu infections that could sicken millions of people…MORE

In my 30 years at the beach, I have never seen fishing like it is now. The humpie run includes a lot of small silvers also and the beachfront is daily lined with fishermen casting buzz bombs and spoons. John Richards, easily the best fly-rod…MORE

Girls have a way of getting noticed, and "Miss Katrina" knows how. Three years ago this August an impish, loving, then 10-month old, Shih Tzu became my roommate -- and as dog owners know happens --changed my life. In a column that month I…MORE

Last week at a Seattle City Council briefing and the following day before the city council's Transportation Committee, the city's Department of Transportation Director Grace Crunican presented a new budget for their two-way Mercer Corridor Plan,…MORE

A couple weeks ago, Rep. Jim McDermott held a “democrats only” meeting, which many of us thought was to be an open-doors town hall.  We were dismayed but not deterred. 

I, along with others, including congressional candidate Steve Beren,…MORE

(Editor's note: The following article appears originally in Seattle City Council member Nick Licata's newsletter "Urban Politics.")

The city is currently seeking members to serve on the Urban Forestry Commission. Background on the urban…MORE

(Editor's Note: Initiative 1033 co-sponsor Tim Eyman wrote this op-ed for the Times/News in response to the SeaTac City Council passing a resolution stating its opposition to the measure.)

Here's what we're debating with I-1033: how fast…MORE

I am now at home resting and doing some therapy to hasten recovery of my hip operation. It has been a 30-day ordeal but can walk with a walking device now. My arrival home a week ago was incredible. As I got in the house a tremendous thunderstorm…MORE

Well, we don't have to vote at local precincts anymore -- we don't attend city council meetings much, Sunday family dinners are sorta out of style, and we're way too busy to read a newspaper or visit neighbors. Aha --but computers by the hours -…MORE

(Editor's Note: Jerry Robinson is recovering after slipping in the shower and breaking his left hip on July 13. He had a partial hip replacement a few days later and rehabbed at Des Moines Caldwell Health Center.)

This is not the first…MORE