Opinion

Public safety cuts are necessary

By Dow Constantine

How would cutting 100 Sheriff's deputies affect police response times? How would a reduction of 30 deputy prosecutors impact our ability to put criminal suspects on trial?

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It woud be easy to simply blame our old whipping boy, Tim Eyman, for the apparent disaster looming over the King County 2009 budget, but that would be too simple and wrong.

A couple of weeks ago King County Executive Ron Sims made official…MORE

Tell Coast Guard to keep bridge open

By Tom Rasmussen

West Seattle residents and businesses will see major road projects in the West Seattle bridge corridor begin in the next several years. Construction to widen and improve the…MORE

Honoring Tim St. Clair

By Rinda T. Hayes

Three months it's been, since the ravages of pancreatic cancer took my friend, Tim St. Clair. I had watched as it had turned him into a belly-bulging bag of bones. I hate that he's gone.…MORE

Tell Coast Guard to keep bridge open

By Tom Rasmussen

West Seattle residents and businesses will see major road projects in the West Seattle bridge corridor begin in the next several years. Construction to widen and improve the…MORE

Unless you are a total Bushie or have spent the past couple of years selling oil in Saudi Arabia, you understand that the world is using up our natural resources at a breakneck pace and turning our once pristine earth into a giant toxic waste…MORE

Tell Coast Guard to keep bridge open

By Tom Rasmussen

West Seattle residents and businesses will see major road projects in the West Seattle bridge corridor begin in the next several years. Construction to widen and improve the…MORE

Readers of this newspaper have proved over and over again that they expect us to provide them with the information they need to access the necessities and the not so necessary enjoyments of life in our peninsula. We are making an important change…MORE

Deficit should never have happened

By Larry Phillips

In response to the King County Executive's call for an 8.6 percent across-the-board budget cut for all county agencies, the chair of the County Council's 2009 Budget Review and…MORE

Sometimes it appears the Washington State Republican Party works hard to make sure it never returns to power.

Just last weekend, its members meeting in Spokane approved a plank in the party's platform that would require amending the United…MORE