Opinion

Just a few days before Jayme Lelani Thomas was shot in Redondo and later passed away, she stopped to pet my little Shih Tzu dog, "Miss Katrina," at Des Moines Beach Park.

She and I were strangers to each other, yet we had 
that common bond…MORE

Forty-five years ago, at the height of the race to the Moon, a young White Center dentist filled a void, helping to develop a special kids play area called Astro City Children's Park.

The White Center Chamber needed someone to spearhead a…MORE

By Charlene Strong

Senator Feinstein presented a bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday called the Respect for Marriage Act. The Committee voted 10-8 along strict party lines to consider a repeal of the Clinton-era law that…MORE

(This summer I dropped by the all-class reunion for SeaTac’s Glacier High School and wrote a column about it. Some alums felt the column was a little too much about me (and a long-lost Glacier girlfriend) and not enough about the wonderful school…MORE

As someone being allowed their weekly soapbox in a public forum, I can’t help but address the issue of personal bias. For those of you who haven’t noticed yet, I’m young, impassioned and not always so great at pulling my written punches. I…MORE

By Citizens Against Raising Car Tabs

Please tell us "How pray tell, does any of that benefit Seattle's neighborhoods or address it's mass transit needs?"

"And there's no money in Prop 1 for this city's most critical mass transit…MORE

“We can’t get worse,” a voter noted in regard to Des Moines City Council candidates in the upcoming election.”

That and other unbelievable accusations are flying the sky like hateful, political, personal daggers.

How in this good…MORE

By Mayor Mike McGinn Many cities are struggling in the aftermath of the recession to keep the jobs they still have and attract new ones. We're still recovering from the job losses suffered during the recession from 2007 to 2009. Seattle lost 35,…MORE

(Editor’s Note: In honor of Oct. 28’s seventh and deciding game of the World Series, we bring you a special column from our the publisher)

A few weeks ago I did a column on my boyhood dream of becoming a big leaguer.

I told about a…MORE

A lot of years back when White Center had the IGA Food Basket grocery we asked owner Ed Minnis, If he wanted to go pheasant hunting with us near White Swan about 15 minutes southwest of Yakima.

"You bet," he said.

We also took…MORE