Opinion

By Kyra-lin Hom

This week I packed my life into a very small box. If you ever want to feel like a packrat, shift everything you own into one pile of packed boxes. Stare at the pile long enough to firmly entrench that singularly traumatic…MORE

By Mayor Mike McGinn

Fifteen years ago America’s internet speeds were among the fastest in the world. That infrastructure helped build a tech industry that is helping create jobs and build prosperity here in Seattle today.

But the…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

I warned Shin Yu Pai that neither my column nor the Ballard News-Tribune necessarily generate much interest in a volume of poetry. Perhaps a literary event, an author of local interest, a book set in Ballard. But almost…MORE

Just last week I was doing my daily grind on the treadmill while my faithful caregiver sat beside me on a recumbent bike. I did 15 minutes before she got tired, so out of a sense of duty, I stopped to console her.

After all she’s 30 years…MORE

By Liz Conger, DVMDes Moines Veterinary HospitalSPECIAL TO THE HIGHLINE TIMES The Northwest is providing one of the best summers ever to get outside and have fun with our dogs. Whether you are barbecuing or gardening in the back yard, enjoying an…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

First there was McDonald's. Then there was the McNugget. Now there is the McBudget.

Have you heard of it yet? In response to the fast food workers' strike (“D15”) – protesting the unlivable minimum wage and asking…MORE

By Rev. Judith Laxer

I’ve waited till twilight when the bees are gone to harvest my lavender. I don’t want to disturb their pollen gathering and I don’t want to get stung as I gather mine. My arms are full as I walk to the table in my…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Nineteen-eighteen. Roger Miller was born at home along with his identical twin brother Rodney at 910 West 62nd; what’s now written as NW 62nd. Twelve years later their father purchased Ballard Transfer Co., still a four…MORE

I have always been a handy guy. I have fixed any number of things over the years from the weekly honey-do list I got from my wife.

I fixed cabinet hinges, wobbly toilet handles, doors that squeak and even stepped on a spider or two. It was…MORE

They say coaches are hired to be fired.

In much the same way, newspaper editors are hired to write their farewell column.

This is mine.

My 66th birthday is Aug. 22 so I’m retiring before the government ups the official Social…MORE