Opinion

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

The shrinking ice cream affair

By Jack Mayne

In a city where gasoline prices are the highest around (except in Vancouver, B.C., where gas is $1.30 a liter or $4.93 a gallon for regular), you would think big business would understand…MORE

Once again the city enters the biennial budget dance, this time with requirements to increase spending (for example, added police officers getting deserved higher pay) and gloomy forecasts of decreased revenue (for example, mild recession and…MORE

The caller was a bit miffed when we said there was nothing to be done about coyotes in her backyard and mildly outraged when told she should make certain Fido and Muffy where inside at night and not to leave their food on the patio.

"This…MORE

Why did state reject aid?

By Don C. Brunell

In the wake of an earlier column about our state rejecting a $13.2 million education grant, people are asking, "What is going wrong in Washington?"

Why was Washington the only state…MORE

Now they tell us we can't ever have a streetcar, even though a monorail could have made it to West Seattle.

People need to watch government

By Tim Eyman

In your story, you blamed "tax-cutting Initiative 695 by Tim Eyman in 2000" for a lack of government services (Ballard News-Tribune, April 30).

I'm very proud to have been one of…MORE

Despite the blame being put on budgets constraints, the way it was done made it clear to us that skateboarders lost out at Myrtle Park because of dark mutterings and portrayals of evil from a very few people living on the "right side" of 35th…MORE

The confirmed monorail lover in us makes us wonder at this latest idea to float out of the city wonderland, a 4.4 mile streetcar that would connect the Ballard Library with downtown, via Fremont.

The idea wafted into reporter Rebekah…MORE

Extension of Pro-Parks studied

By Tom Rasmussen

Recently we received a flurry of e-mails from Ballard residents who feared that the cost of the Webster Playground, owned by the School District, had escalated beyond the city's…MORE