Opinion

Residents of Ballard would be best advised to support local businesses and forget about going downtown on any but the most important trips because it soon may become too expensive and take far too long to go there.

As we all know the Sword…MORE

Residents of West Seattle would be best advised to support local businesses and forget about going downtown on any but the most important trips because it soon may become too expensive and take far too long to go there.

As we all know, the…MORE

I'm thankful for so many things

That Fall's approaching visit brings

As shadows of her dark embrace

So gently cover summer's face

For some, she comes too soon each year

Extinguishing the summer's cheer

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With some cool logic, a bank economist almost made the dark clouds go away last week with his predictions that by mid to late 2009 things will begin to bloom again in Seattle.

William B. Conerly is the consulting economist for small and…MORE

Chief Executive Office Navos (formerly Highline West Seattle Mental Health).

When Chris Hill was honorably discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1982, he made sure to remove the medical records in his permanent file about his visits to…MORE

As I awoke this morning, welcomed quiet filled the air

The campaigns all were over and no longer did I care

If Gregoire was for income tax or Rossi owned a bank

Whether Burner went to Harvard or if Joe the Plumber drank

Looming layoffs. Declining home values and residential construction. Mega-banks and Wall Street firms on the ropes.

The skittish national economy is beginning to give the Puget Sound jitters. And for business owners in Ballard,…MORE

In January I became the chair of the Seattle City Council Parks and Seattle Center Committee. What I have seen in the last nine months is men, women and children, throughout Seattle building parks and restoring our streams and greenbelts.

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Last year, we urged readers to oppose Proposition 1, the regional transportation package that was placed on the November '07 ballot. That $18 billion measure, including $7 billion for roads and most of the rest for light rail, was soundly…MORE

The words remained in my head long after I head them, "It isn't a panic, it is a crisis of confidence." That conversation was not about rail or parks, but about the financial mess that is threatening to engulf us locally, even though Seattle is…MORE