Highline Times - Opinion

Former Highline Times freelance photographer Jerry Gay is forever linked with Burien by one photographic image snapped 39 years ago.

It’s a photo of four exhausted volunteer firefighters resting after battling an early morning blaze at…MORE

By Tim RobinsonASSOCIATE PUBLISHER

(Editor’s Note: Tim Robinson is filling in for Jerry Robinson this week.)

The publisher is busy this week writing his first book, again. It is called "Do as I say, not as I did."
 I think he was…MORE

No one likes to pay the piper but our state is in dire need of some rehab on our bridges and roads. I don’t mind paying to cross Lake Washington or even the Narrows Bridge to get back from Gig Harbor. With all the talk lately of tolls and Good-To…MORE

By Ken RobinsonMANAGING EDITOR(Editor’s Note: Ken Robinson is substituting for Jerry Robinson this week.)

In New York City, standing on the podium next to Katie Couric and other luminaries of the broadcast world, Tony Miner was about to…MORE

Denmark, specifically Copenhagen, was a stopover for me and my new bride Elsbeth on our trip around Europe in the winter of 1968. I had lost my first wife to cancer. It was tough but getting remarried made sense, since I still had two young boys…MORE

Sunny days and warm winds put me back in time to days spent pestering fishes on the region’s lakes, streams and saltwater.

One memorable trip was to Neah Bay with a friend and his son and my son, Ken. The boys were about 14. We rented a 16…MORE

The late Seattle Times humor writer Steve Johnston once wrote about attending a parents’ night at his kid’s school with his wife.

Recalling his own school days, Johnston slumped in a chair in the back of the classroom.

Not his wife…MORE

(Editor’s Note: This letter was sent to Sound Transit and King County Councilmember Julia patterson with a copy to the Highline Times.)

I'm sorry, but I really have to ask....

How is the existing Metro Transit Rapid Ride - A Line…MORE

On behalf of the Highline Historical Society, I'd like to thank everyone involved in the 2013 Highline Garden Tour, held last Saturday (June 8.)

From the gardeners who offer up their unique visions of a verdant paradise and the guest…MORE

It was like a movie. A comedy, I think, now that I recall the decision to take the kids to Disneyland in the summer of 1955.

With school out, we had to think fast on keeping the kids busy. Riding for thousands of miles in a 1951 Chrysler…MORE