Opinion

Nearly thirty years ago we were visiting Portland. We were impressed by their gigantic success with an open-air collection of booths and tables they called the Saturday Market.

It started largely as a venue for local farmers to sell their…MORE

State Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson

Allowing people to fall back into the abyss of untreated mental illness is cruel, wasteful and sometimes extremely dangerous. But this is the inevitable result of state budget cuts that are shredding our…MORE

Of all skills of leadership, listening is the most valuable -- and the one least understood," wrote Heath Herber of the Herber Company.

Two world leaders captured this truth when President Woodrow Wilson said, "The ear of the leader must…MORE

Why do we favor some golfers over others? Or baseball players? We all root, root, root for the home team; but why golfers, prizefighters or the boys of summer who carry the single burden of winning your love along with the paycheck?

With…MORE

We'll skip over Native Americans harvesting clams at Three Tree Point, Mike Kelly trudging up from the Duwamish Valley to find a "sunny dale" or Gottlieb Von Boorian settling by his namesake lake. We'll start our tale from when we got here. By we…MORE

The papers have been full of stories lately about bullies in schools and it might make you think that big guys picking on little guys is something new. It is not, never has been. Little people have been low hanging fruit since Goliath.

I…MORE

Not much is written about a second chance at love in one’s so-called senior years. After all, people with children, grandchildren and maybe even great grandchildren aren’t expected to enter the dating scene in their advanced years. But everyone…MORE

If there's anybody who can "fool" anyone, that would be us - foolin' ourselves. And we don't always wait for April 1st to get the fooling done.

While fooling can be in all good fun, sometimes the truth of human behavior is funny enough for…MORE

A viaduct over the railroad tracks near our ancient rental house in north Portland was only three blocks away and adjoined a dense forested acreage just a block away. It was a great place for exploring, just like Africa.

We had ample…MORE

So now Highline has something in common with our big neighbor to the north-we're both looking for a new permanent school superintendent.

Highline Public Schools Superintendent John Welch announced March 17 that he is leaving to head the…MORE