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By Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles

"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to…MORE

Strange sex. Strange sex. Strange sex.

Oh, excuse me. I was just agonizing over what we should report on in the new year.

Should our coverage change now that our new Web site is receiving more page views than our print circulation…MORE

Even though the doubling of the population of Burien will cause a rather large knot of debt, the Burien City Council last week decided to go slow, but to play the game.

Instead of simply saying "no thanks" to adding another 31,000 people…MORE

The last three weeks in the life of the city of Burien have been full of both joy and sadness. Joy because we are moving forward with a new City Council and a new City Manager. Because of this there is a new feeling of openness and…MORE

Small business owners are usually too busy to take time from their busy and hectic schedules to decide on a comprehensive message to relay to their elected officials in Olympia. But last fall they did just that at two Small Business Conferences…MORE

On the final Friday of 2005, a rare break in the clouds drew a small crowd of skateboarders to the newly opened Ballard Commons Park, where the concrete in the new skate bowl was almost dry. Squeegees and towels quickly removed the remaining…MORE

During the last year of the existence of the Seattle Monorail Project, we continually heard how outrageously expensive the idea was and, unfortunately, due to the total mismanagement of Joel Horn and Tom Weeks, there was truth in the argument.…MORE

The Loyal Heights Community Council was recently given official status as a neighborhood group.

With the Washington Legislature into the second week of its even-year 60 day session, one of the main topics is the test that must be passed to graduate, the WASL or Washington Assessment of Student Learning.

We have said before that one…MORE

I didn't think I'd get embroiled in this holiday's controversy de jour, the recoil against the politically correct "season's greetings". I'm not often in the politically correct camp.