Ballard - Features

By Mayor Mike McGinn

We are living in a time of deep inequality. Statistics show the United States is experiencing the worst income inequality since 1928. The top 1% control 34% of the nation’s wealth. And it hits unevenly. Communities of…MORE

By Jeff and Eileen Bidwell

Planting Spring Bulbs

Hope springs eternal….as fans of the Chicago Cubs, we oughtta know! It’s hard to imagine anything that can inspire more hope in dreary winter than the first snowdrop or crocus…MORE

While many young students use their first college years to find out what to study, who they are, and what they want to do with their lives, Ballardite Sean Hendricks is doing that self-searching in the middle of the Swiss Alps.

Hendricks…MORE

This morning I opened my emails to see three pictures of my son fiercely wielding a badminton racquet over his friend’s head. Who is that? I wondered. And when did he become such a dude?

With the November election day just weeks away and another big election year around the corner, Republicans and Democrats are fighting for your attention.

Fighting even harder are the minor parties you don't hear about.

But Ballard…MORE

Taproot Theatre is closing its 35th anniversary season with Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, a witty satire that examines Victorian England's high society, which the opening dialogue warns is entirely composed of "beautiful idiots and brilliant…MORE

Interviewee: Bob Anderton
Occupation: Attorney
Riding style: Commuting
His ride: One of his six bikes is a Dutch Azor "Opa" bike. "People are a lot nicer to you when you are on one of these bikes."

A photo frame made out of a bicycle…MORE

By Mayor Mike McGinn

Children are part of our shared destiny, and we’ll have a better destiny if we help our children succeed. That means improving education in Seattle has to be a top priority for all of us. The first step is to make sure…MORE

I had been summoned by a friend, but chanced upon the play. How could I not notice sheets strung as stage curtains across a back yard, people arriving with food, four girls sitting in a canoe and someone in a bicycle helmet about to make an…MORE

Besides wanting to extend the olive branch to my parents by braving the fifteen-hour cross country flight and Hurricane Irene (see previous column for gruesome details), the other reason I ventured the journey back east was to reconnect with…MORE