Opinion

By Brian LeBlanc

Last month while writing an article about the coal train controversy, I talked to Herb Krohn, a railroad union representative at a WSDOT rail transportation public workshop. Krohn made several points that I felt needed…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Inspired by Apple and Steve Jobs, San Antonio's Bexar County, Texas has revealed its plans for BiblioTech, the nation's first book-less public library. The $1.5 million plan includes a 4,989 square-foot space, 100 e-…MORE

By Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles

On the opening day of the 2013 legislative session last week, two recalcitrant Democrats joined sides with the Senate’s 23 Republicans to vote to scrap rules that have governed our institution for more than 100…MORE

It wasn’t my intent not to leave Ballard for anything other than airport pick-ups and drop-offs for a period of three weeks, but that’s what happened. I might not even have noticed except for the observation by a friend visiting from the other…MORE

Here we are facing the unknown of year 2013 and knowing this is a time of changes and unrest. We wonder; will war ever go away, maybe for good? Or will money greed rule out decisions to find the world at peace? “We, the People,” living today will…MORE

Thousands of people driving through White Center on 18th SW have seen the building which housed the News for many years. It is now quite colorful but unoccupied by the current owner.

When we bought the paper from Dean Phares in 1952 the…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Since Hartford, Connecticut's elementary school massacre, gun control has been one of the hottest debates both in the political and social sectors right up there with global warming, healthcare and the fiscal cliff.…MORE

By Corbin Lewars

In order to have a better sense of a writer community, one of my clients began meeting regularly with a friend of a friend who also wrote fiction.

“Great!” I said.

“Yeah, it was until this.” He held up…MORE

The week before Seattle Schools’ winter break was a heartbreaking time all over the country and very difficult for every grade school teacher who could imagine those classrooms so clearly. It was also the week Mrs. Niemeyer, 2nd Grade teacher at…MORE

In the ‘50s urban legend had it that a deep, dark hole existed at the bottom of Hicks Lake that drained out to Puget Sound to the west. When someone drowned and the authorities could not find the body, we just assumed it got sucked down that hole…MORE