Opinion

I was not wearing my columnist hat at The Ballard Historical Society event featuring Seattle Now & Then: The Historic Hundred. In fact I was wearing a jaunty cap and a shingler’s apron that had belonged to Stuart Mork’…MORE

By Jerry Robinson, Publisher (1920-2014)

This column originally appeared in this paper 09/15/2008

By Jean Godden

Everyone was anticipating a Blue Wave to hit during Midterm elections. So it was no surprise that a Blue Wave did indeed sweep dozens of Democrats into the U. S. House of Representatives.

By Jean Godden

By Ken Robinson

Managing Editor

Mel and Leena, who are loyal readers, wrote to ask where the police reports are “that used to inform what was going on in westside communities”.

By Jerry Robinson

(January 7, 1960)

By Jean Godden

By Jean Godden

By Peggy Sturdivant

By Jean Godden

The late architect Ibsen Nelsen once said that the Alaskan Way Viaduct was "the worst mistake Seattle ever made." Some would argue otherwise, but Nelsen likely was more right than he knew.