Opinion

By Peggy Sturdivant

I didn’t think I could ever leave my old house on NW 61st. When a friend told me she’d found the house for me and Martin, I refused to enter it for a month. I wasn’t sure I could make the change. Then I went inside and…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

For my officially last Washington state-side column, let's dig into something distinctly Washingtonian: Initiative 522. Perhaps you're not familiar with it yet. You will be soon. I expect the marketing campaigns for both…MORE

By Ken Robinson

It is disheartening to watch the ceaseless attack on Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn by the Seattle Times. In their words, McGinn can do nothing right. We know him from his many appearances in Ballard and West Seattle during his…MORE

By Ken Robinson Beginning with the issue of Sept. 6, your local paper will take on a new look. We are combining all the elements of your community paper with those of neighboring communities in a package called The Westside Weekly.

For…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel While examining his female patient, the doctor tells her: "Your heart, lungs, pulse & blood pressure are fine. Now let me see that little thing which gets you “ladies” into all kinds of trouble." The woman started…MORE

By Ken Robinson

Beginning with the issue of Sept. 6, your local paper will take on a new look. We are combining all the elements of your community paper with those of neighboring communities in a package called The Westside Weekly.

By Peggy Sturdivant

This is the first summer since when I was pregnant in 1990 that I have been in Seattle for the entire months of July, August and (soon) September. Is it a coincidence this was the firstly completely rain-less July on…MORE

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