Opinion

Like many of you, I received my ballot in the mail recently and want to urge you to go all the way to the bottom and vote Yes on Seattle Proposition 2 to continue investing in parks and open space as our city continues to grow and become more…MORE

Change it Up

I'm for change, how 'bout you?

We all could do with something new

But do we know exactly who

Or what this change will really do?

This word has trickled like the rain

Through every candidate's…MORE

Tough times call for strong relationships

By John Huey

Looming layoffs. Declining home values and residential construction. Mega-banks and Wall Street firms on the ropes.

The skittish national economy is beginning to give the…MORE

It's almost a heretical question to ask in this town. Most people I know in Seattle (myself included) love the neighborhoods where we live. More often than not, we feel protective of other neighborhoods around town, too. I don't live near the…MORE

What commuter has not been snarled in the Mercer Mess a few times, left boxed in but with no way out except to wait, muttering darkly about leaders of a city who would keep something like this for 40 years?

It may be a few more years…MORE

It's almost a heretical question to ask in this town. Most people I know in Seattle (myself included) love the neighborhoods where we live. More often than not, we feel protective of other neighborhoods around town, too.

I don't live…MORE

In just five weeks, the people of Canada will hear campaign rhetoric and then vote for 308 members of the Canadian Parliament. The election was called by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in early September and election day is next Tuesday.

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There is a common concern in Burien these days, and well?.someone has to tell it.

It is a real estate agent and landlord's dream, and a renter's worst nightmare. Rent just went up?way up. Guess why. The common phrase landlords are…MORE

No matter what the city does, the homeless just will not simply go away.

This was evident when police shoved campers off city land near West Seattle - urged on by a mayor who says homeless should have permanent homes while doing little to…MORE

There may be a little ray of sunshine in the unmitigated financial disaster that has befallen the American people, a disaster brought on by greed and complete failure of our federal government to oversee the runaway train called Wall Street.…MORE