Opinion

Once again the city enters the biennial budget dance, this time with requirements to increase spending (for example, added police officers getting deserved higher pay) and gloomy forecasts of decreased revenue (for example, mild recession and…MORE

Why did state reject aid?

By Don C. Brunell

In the wake of an earlier column about our state rejecting a $13.2 million education grant, people are asking, "What is going wrong in Washington?"

Why was Washington the only state…MORE

The caller was a bit miffed when we said there was nothing to be done about coyotes in her backyard and mildly outraged when told she should make certain Fido and Muffy where inside at night and not to leave their food on the patio.

"This…MORE

Now they tell us we can't ever have a streetcar, even though a monorail could have made it to West Seattle.

The confirmed monorail lover in us makes us wonder at this latest idea to float out of the city wonderland, a 4.4 mile streetcar that would connect the Ballard Library with downtown, via Fremont.

The idea wafted into reporter Rebekah…MORE

People need to watch government

By Tim Eyman

In your story, you blamed "tax-cutting Initiative 695 by Tim Eyman in 2000" for a lack of government services (Ballard News-Tribune, April 30).

I'm very proud to have been one of…MORE

Despite the blame being put on budgets constraints, the way it was done made it clear to us that skateboarders lost out at Myrtle Park because of dark mutterings and portrayals of evil from a very few people living on the "right side" of 35th…MORE

Extension of Pro-Parks studied

By Tom Rasmussen

Recently we received a flurry of e-mails from Ballard residents who feared that the cost of the Webster Playground, owned by the School District, had escalated beyond the city's…MORE

Extension of Pro-Parks studied

By Tom Rasmussen

Recently we received a flurry of e-mails from Ballard residents who feared that the cost of the Webster Playground, owned by the School District, had escalated beyond the city's…MORE

The problem with dealing with government is getting it to do what we, the voters and citizens want and not what someone "downtown" wants done. It is one of those never-ending struggles that frustrates both groups, the cash-strapped man and woman…MORE