Opinion

On “Face the Nation” recently General Petraeus, our General in Afghanistan, was discussing the situation and what had to be done to improve our situation in Afghanistan. We are spending millions everyday in Afghanistan as you know.

It…MORE

By Sally Clark, Seattle City Council

Mayor Mike McGinn delivered his proposed budget to the Seattle City Council Sept. 27, and it’s ugly.

I don’t mean that as a slam of the mayor. Facing a $67 million funding hole that has worsened…MORE

This month Hank Bakken turns 90. Though he no longer builds remarkable houses, this modest Burien man has lived a remarkable life.

I luckily met him 30 years ago after I asked the owners of Logan Lumber (now Dunn Lumber) if they knew a…MORE

By Richard Conlin, Seattle City Council

Seattle needs a new permanent tree protection ordinance that includes incentives for property owners to preserve existing trees and plant and maintain new ones. Most importantly, we must start…MORE

One of the lost arts I mastered in my misspent youth was playing migs, also called marbles.

I am saddened to see kids today using their thumbs for pitiful things like texting and hitchhiking on I-5. Playing migs not only builds your thumb…MORE

By Susan Goding HIGHLINE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER

There is a base of information that forms the cultural references of our lives as Americans that is the essence of education.

About 10 years ago, in response to pressure to raise student…MORE

He's one of the many nameless faces that we see standing near the intersections with cardboard signs.

Most of the signs are short and sweet "Need Food. Please Help. God Bless", "Homeless Vet. Please Help" or "I won't lie, I just want…MORE

Tucked neatly on nearly every available shelf or ledge throughout her tiny White Center home, more than 1000 smallish wooden characters, red-topped roosters and miniature cups remind Audie May of her late husband Howard's uncanny knack for…MORE

By Lisa Mills, CHt. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES/NEWS

ALL FEELINGS ARE GOOD!

It's What You Do With Them That Is Good or Bad

Life not going exactly as planned? Feeling frustrated or depressed? Smoking, but you want to quit?

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The first time I met Gertrude Finney she was on her hands and knees and they were all dirty. It was in the early fifties.

She and my wife were planting petunias or pansies in the middle of downtown White Center.

County Councilman Ed…MORE