Opinion

SeaTac – Common Sense SeaTac, the committee of SeaTac citizens and businesses opposing the initiative apparently approved today for the November ballot in SeaTac, says the union-backed initiative will create far more harm than good for the…MORE

By Erin Shannon, Director of Small Business

Voters in the City of SeaTac will soon vote on Proposition 1, the controversial initiative that would impose a super-high minimum wage rule on businesses at Sea-Tac International Airport, and on…MORE

By Scott Anthony

Maybe it’s the weather, coldness for days on end, or the email from a friend about losing his sweet dog to cancer. On Monday there was the funeral I attended, where the sun broke through just in time to light the tiny Kent…MORE

By Terry Anderson and Daryl Tapio Proposition 1 will cost SeaTac dearly and we urge voters to reject it.

While voters know that Prop 1 requires selected employers to increase the minimum wage by 63%, to $15 an hour, it puts some heavy…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

The battle was long and hard-won. There were tears and laughter, and both sides lost good soldiers. But finally, after many an hour, I have just now emerged victorious over my serger. A serger is basically a really complex…MORE

I loved being a boy. With a big brother who was my hero, and a mother who put up daily with a drunk husband--staying with him anyway, without a noticeable cry--dedicated to her marriage, her kids, praying. I loved adventuring in the nearby,…MORE

I met up with my old friend Morey Skaret last week at Roxbury Lanes in White Center. I say old since he turned 100 years about a month ago. We talked about the usual things people our age talk about. Health... It's a big deal when you get to be…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel There appears to be no way to unseat the profit makers that have hidden their assets in foreign countries. The power that has attempted to buy Congress and advertised the sleeping public into oblivion continues to reap…MORE

By Rachel M. Lusby Did you know over 200,000 people each year are raped/sexually assaulted in the United States? Did you know over 40% of those people are under 18, and roughly 80% are under 30?

These statistics, according to RAIIN ,(…MORE

By Scott Anthony So it’s raining and sleeting pretty hard last month and I’m driving down 320th and I see a huge, looming object from over my shoulder. It roars down on to me and cuts me off, leaving me in a spray of slushy water. The only thing…MORE