Opinion

By Julia Patterson King County Councilmember

I am often asked how actions in the “other Washington” influence King County residents. Sometimes, these decisions can affect our everyday lives, like the price we pay for gasoline.

Gas…MORE

Hello everyone! I’m writing to all of you from the land of cold and snow that is the US Mountain Time Zone. It’s stunningly beautiful, but traipsing over porches of ice and wet in an open-toed walking boot has been a…shall we say interesting…MORE

Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade with its enormous balloons tethered against the wind are now only in the memory of those who are children at heart. Stars of the entertainment industry after waving from open roadsters to cement their relationship with…MORE

Dear Mom and Dad:

One of my richest memories is of our Thanksgiving Day celebrations. I can’t recall one that didn’t include a turkey and all the trimmings. How you managed it in the Depression years with nine mouths to feed is something I…MORE

Do you remember when everyone was migrating to Silicon Valley, the drawing card for technology nerds? The braggarts from the valley were abruptly told to move over for Bill Gates who became the power to be reckoned with. So Bellevue, once a…MORE

I was wracking my brain this week trying to find a lighter topic to write about. Maybe something that wasn’t so statistics or technical jargon heavy. I’ll leave that for next week. Yet despite my adamant denial of being a die-hard cynic, I was…MORE

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