Opinion

Mon, 03/03/08

More bus service coming

By Larry Phillips

In 2006, voters said a resounding yes to expanding Metro bus service with passage of the Transit Now ballot measure. The first service increases got rolling last year, and 2008 will bring…MORE

Mon, 02/25/08

The squabble over the future of the distinctively roofed former Denny's seems to boil down to two issues, plain economics and whose taste in old buildings we want to agree with.

When the Landmark Preservation Boad agreed to stay the…MORE

Mon, 02/25/08

More regulation is not the housing cost answer

By Don C. Brunell

Recently, a researcher from the University of Washington reported land use regulations - most notably the state's Growth Management Act - added $200,000 to the price…MORE

Mon, 02/25/08

We wonder why it is that disputes involving parents, students, the administration of the Seattle Public School District and its board of directors always end up in a squabble that includes charges, counter-charges and even name calling.

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Mon, 02/25/08

Student views at Sealth have 'fallen on dear ears'

By Duron Jones

I'm sure this opening is something that sounds familiar to the Seattle Public School board, as it should since I have spoken to them in public testimonial on several…MORE

Mon, 02/18/08

The legendary "Seattle Way" of doing government business is to hold a slew of hearings and make a ton of Power Point presentations, take a bushel of incoming paperwork from the people and give them a bushel of stuff back - then have a couple of…MORE

Mon, 02/18/08

Homeless need our help

By MaryLee Smith and Jean Darsie

Citizens of Ballard: Some of our neighbors are in trouble. But for the grace of a higher power, it could be any one of us. They are veterans of our wars, Native American…MORE

Fri, 02/15/08

The legendary "Seattle Way" of doing government business is to hold a slew of hearings and make a ton of Power Point presentations, take a bushel of incoming paperwork from the people and give them a bushel of stuff back - then have a couple of…MORE

Mon, 02/11/08

An outstanding opportunity

By Jeff Clark

Dear West Seattle community members,

As you probably are aware, thanks to the Seattle voters, a new Denny/Sealth campus plan has been funded, complete with a new building for Denny…MORE

Mon, 02/11/08

Every day there seems to be a new woe for the Washington State Ferry system, a service that carries 24 million passengers and 11 million vehicles a year on 10 cross-Puget Sound runs. Bulletins are issued often, sometimes hourly of late, telling…MORE

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