April 2025

Cozy Comedy is back in the heart of West Seattle at the Great American Diner and Bar Thursday April 3.

 Produced and hosted by West Seattle comedians, with guest comics from all over the state dropping in before  headliner Rod Long takes the stage 

A Seattle comedy legend, Rod Long brings his hilarity to West Seattle’s best local entertainment gem; Jokes at the Junction. Long is a past winner of both the Seattle International Comedy Competition and Emerald City’s Funniest Person Competition. He has performed from Tacoma to Tokyo and many venues in between. Rod has also shared the stage with musical legends including Anita Baker, Smokey Robinson, and the Temptations.

 Tickets are here

By Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

High schools

Baseball

Tyee entertains Foster for a 3:30 p.m. Friday game and Evergreen journeys to Cedarcrest at 4 p.m. as West Seattle travels to Lakeside.

Ballard visits Ingraham at 5 p.m. and Chief Sealth hosts Franklin at 7 p.m.

Tyee gets a 3:30 p.m. Monday visit from Cedarcrest as Highline visits Lindbergh, and Evergreen entertains Renton at 4 p.m. as Chief Sealth hosts Nathan Hale.

Ballard pays a 6:30 p.m. visit to Eastside Catholic and West Seattle hosts Seattle Academy at 7 p.m.

At 7 p.m. Tuesday it will be Mount Rainier at Tahoma and Kennedy Catholic at Kentridge.

Highline entertains Evergreen at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday as Foster hosts Interlake.

Kennedy Catholic comes home to play Kentridge at 4 p.m. as Mount Rainier hosts Tahoma and Ballard entertains Eastside Catholic.

The Sound Transit Executive Committee convened on Thursday, April 3, 2025, to discuss various agency matters, including the establishment of performance standards for the new CEO, Dow Constantine, and to hear public comments, which included a request for a town hall meeting in West Seattle regarding the light rail extension.

The meeting commenced with roll call, establishing the presence of committee members Claudia Balducci, Cassie Franklin, Bruce Harrell, Ryan Mello, Julie Meredith, Christina Walker, and Dave Somers, with Chair Somers presiding. Following brief opening remarks and the acting CEO's statement that there was no report, the committee moved to public comment.

Public Calls for West Seattle Town Hall and CEO Accountability

Information from Highline Public Schools

Highline Public Schools is notifying the community of an incident involving personal information on its systems. This notice includes details about the incident, their response, and resources available to help protect personal information if individuals choose to do so. 

King County is facing a significant crisis due to potential federal funding cuts and new conditions on existing grants, according to a presentation by Budget Director Dwight Dively to the King County Council Health, Housing and Human Services Committee1. The situation poses a severe risk to numerous county services and could impact every community in the region2.

At the Tuesday committee meeting, Dively outlined the grim implications of possible federal actions, including the illegal attempts by the Trump administration to reclaim already allocated funds3, and the imposition of new, unacceptable conditions on long-standing grants3. King County's operating budget relies on over $200 million in federal funding, with additional federal funds flowing through the state, and federal funding often anticipated in future capital budgets4.

By Kenneth Robinson

Managing Editor

Citizens, 

You are the media

It all changed when so-called “home computers” were available to everyone. Until that development, what we called ‘The media” was comprised of major city newspapers, community newspapers, radio stations, TV station and magazines. It was through those ‘mediums’ that got our news, opinions and degrees of information. This is what we called the Main Stream Media.

Unhappy with something you read in a paper? You could write letter to the editor. Didn’t like what you saw on TV? Stop watching. There were mechanisms for any and all to voice or at least act on their own opinion. 

Now, there are a million channels, podcasts, and ’shows’ like Fox News that give vent to individual opinions and point of view.

By Patrick Robinson

The nation is struggling I believe because the crazies want to take the wheel. 

To the extent that we let them look where that got us.

They appear to be taking us toward the edge of a cliff.

I use the term “crazy” here in the sense that extreme views are not the way America runs best.

Crazy cuts both ways and there are plenty of examples from both sides.

People on the left, I mean the far left out of a sense of kindness and yes, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion pushed the idea of trans folks being allowed to compete in the sport of their chosen gender. That’s crazy.