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Mon, 04/05/10

For those of you who play golf or follow golf on television this is the week of the Masters tournament in Augusta and the world will be watching Tiger Woods and his search for redemption and forgiveness as he renews his miraculous artistry with a…MORE

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Mon, 03/29/10

Have you ever sat in church, on a bus or in a theatre and just looked around at people? I particularly look at seniors and wonder what they looked like, when they were kids or in their 20s.

However, my real curiosity is beyond how they…MORE

Mon, 03/29/10

City Manager Tony Piasecki wrote in response to Des Moines Chief of Police Roger Baker's retirement announcement:

"On behalf of the residents of the City of Des Moines, the City Council, and city staff, thank you for your service to the…MORE

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Mon, 03/29/10

Meet Abel Magana

He is a deacon at Holy Family School in White Center.

Now residing in Burien, he was once a native of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico's Jalisco state.

He is married (deacons can be married) and the proud father of…MORE

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Sun, 03/28/10

Perhaps we should start with the differentiation that my high school Physics teacher always discussed. In his mind there was a difference between “Students” and “Pupils.”

“Student” has a root of “Study” in it. “Pupils” doesn’t and “…MORE

Wed, 03/24/10

Replacing our seawall is a given: everyone agrees it is in poor condition and a public safety issue. The questions that loom before us are when, and who will pay?

Mayor McGinn has accelerated the timetable for seawall replacement from 2016…MORE

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Wed, 03/24/10

Written from notes after a visit in Burien on July 2nd 2009 on the occasion of my father Thomas Sieverts speaking in Burien.

I remember the unbelievable story of an invisible lake in the center of a town called Burien. There was no public…MORE

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Tue, 03/23/10

She moves across the room with the grace of a ballet dancer, carefully opening a dark mahogany cabinet.

From pristine glass shelves Gladys lifts a small decorated egg. "I've made a thousand of these," she says proudly.

The colorful…MORE

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Wed, 03/17/10

In the newspapers and on television there has been a great deal of coverage of the latest “motion” to improve schools.

Let’s fire the principal; he/she has to be the reason for this failure! The presumption is that a different principal…MORE

Tue, 03/16/10

There's nothing quite like a crinkling, printed, newspaper feel and sound with today's local news-- and a good cup of coffee.

Choices are many in our media machine-operated world. Consider the addicting computers, television news with fine…MORE

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