Opinion

It's kind of difficult to understand the reasons people do what they do when we don't walk in their shoes or see the world through their eyes.

Born in Vietnam, Tran Quoc Tan, better known as "Lee," is a proud American citizen who takes the…MORE

Back in 1990, the Food and Drug Administration required major food producers to label their packages with calorie, fat, carbohydrate, and other nutritional information.

For many of us, this changed the way we bought groceries. In fact,…MORE

What do the terms ADD and EBD mean to educators and what re-thinking might be appropriate?

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Emotional or Behavioral Disorder (EBD) are the traditional definitions the education community gives for…MORE

Kellen Bryan is a student at Washington Middle School who lives in West Seattle. He will be graduating from eighth grade soon and wrote a free verse poem, entitled “Big Steps,” about how he is feeling about this new change he will be making…MORE

Just as a robin in the spring Returns, so do our memories bring Us back to find the road ahead Is one we have already tread

A memory can be bittersweet Like lover’s eyes that never meet And tender as a baby’s face Or soldier’s welcome home…MORE

(Editor's Note: Jerry Robinson replies to this letter about a previous column.)

As a lifelong Pantheist I want to assure Eric Dickman and others I am a tree lover and the root of my rant about enticing tourism is purely about bringing…MORE

By Bill Hoffman

Too much of late has been written of the need of political engagement when the political dialog at all levels is mired in partisan politics and in process. This is because how we go about something has become the end game.…MORE

Is our Education System Bankrupt? Is it like General Motors and “Too big to fail?”

Sadly this would seem to be the case. Locally I recently checked our achievement levels on our state’s WASL for math and found that while we had 320 kids…MORE

For obvious reasons, I've always been fascinated by struggling writers.

Robert Dugoni used to be in that category. Dugoni is the author of the David Sloane legal thriller series.

The fictional Sloane, "the lawyer who does not lose…MORE

Have you seen the movie "Food Inc."? I've known about it since it came out, but just got around to watching it. Nothing it the movie surprised me, but it did re-ignite the fire of indignation in me at how we are so misled in the name of…MORE