Ballard - Letters To The Editor

To the Editor:

Thanks so much for the reporting on the unofficial Locks encampment (http://www.ballardnewstribune.com/2016/08/23/news/trash-pile-‘ballard-jungle’-spurs-neighbor). I’ve been surprised at how little media coverage there has…MORE

Dear Editor,

The rain’s coming down in sheets. I’m sitting just barely out of it under the closed entrance of a Subway, covered in a black trash bag, feet sticking out, my big toe breaking through the sole of my left shoe. Nowhere to go,…MORE

To the editor:

What’s with this Age of Consumption, where the customer is always right, where we, the people, deduct monetary amounts from internet accounts with little plastic cards, where the IPAs ubiquitously flow from man-made springs…MORE

Dear Mr. Ken Robinson,

The purpose of this letter is to add my voice to those who support Washington State adopting a progressive state income tax. I am a math teacher and author for the Transition 2030 research project. Today the…MORE

To the Editor:

I am discouraged and saddened that some members of Congress and presidential candidates continue to attack key programs that help families struggling with poverty.  Some of these that are struggling are my neighbors.

David and Carol Entrikin, owners of Ballard Bookcase Company (4611 11th Ave. NW) are retiring after 40 successful years of business in Ballard.

We began in 1977 with Al's Second Hand, an antique furniture business on Historic Ballard…MORE

To the editor

I am writing to inform the editors that there is a influx of marijuana stores coming to Ballard.  I already know of two that are currently open, and I just read that another plans to open in the Ballard Historic District. …MORE

To the editor:

I wanted to share my experience with Varied Thrush since I didn’t know the bird either until it was in my garden a few years ago. I live in the woods of cedar trees, hemlock, dogwood, rhododendrons southwest of SeaTac…MORE

To the Editor,

I have the TPP’s official government site, https://ustr.gov/tpp/, minimized at the bottom of my computer screen, its vastness all locked up in a little icon that keeps bouncing up and down. And I can’t figure out whether I…MORE

Two and a half years ago I moved to Ballard from a small town in Connecticut. I was pleased to find an apartment within an easy walk to the Chittenden Locks and English Botanical Gardens, a walkable distance to the library and drugstore in…MORE