Opinion

Wed, 04/26/06

The Sonics have a deal for you! They need tax payers to cough up a quarter of $1 billion to spruce up Key Arena and for that, the basketball team will keep all of the money the arena makes, and pay the city $1 million a year to help cover rent.…MORE

Wed, 04/26/06

It appears there will be three major transportation issues on the November ballot, one from the city, one from the county and a third issue from a three-county regional transportation consortium to pay for larger projects.

No price tag is…MORE

Wed, 04/26/06

I must have been about ten years old when I read the United States Citizenship Test questions for the first time.

The test was not for me, I was born in the United States and that made me a citizen.

In grade school, I learned who…MORE

Tue, 04/18/06

I have been teaching the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, in West Seattle at our church, over the past three years. It's a four week class wherein a schedule is provided to help the students read straight through the entire Qur'an in a brief time…MORE

Tue, 04/18/06

I have been teaching the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, in West Seattle at our church, over the past three years. It's a four week class wherein a schedule is provided to help the students read straight through the entire Qur'an in a brief time…MORE

Tue, 04/18/06

On the other side of I-5 in Auburn, the debate over the banning of pit bulls and similar breeds has escalated into a fury.

As the nature versus nurture battle endures, local lawmakers have found themselves somewhere in the middle, forced…MORE

Tue, 04/18/06

Loyal Heights Community Council

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels' recent Ballard News Tribune interview finally gets to the heart of the ongoing flap over Loyal Heights Playfield between residents and the Seattle Parks Department. Nickels'…MORE

Wed, 04/12/06

President Ford once said, "The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit."

That might explain why, despite the sky-is-falling cries of "neo-economists" who predict…MORE

Wed, 04/12/06

But inevitable does not have to mean our Junction must become a concrete canyon that is inhospitable to pedestrians and shoppers.

It is the time for the property owners, the people who lease their stores and the residents nearby and from…MORE

Tue, 04/04/06

Many faithful readers of the Herald wondered why we so strongly supported the monorail. You are seeing the reasons coming forward now as we all wonder how we will get downtown under the plan the state has drawn up for the tunnel that will allow…MORE

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