Opinion

When Seattle decided to brace and prepare for becoming a much larger city, it decided that more of us needed to live more closely in proximity with each other. Urban villages were to be created where mid-rise apartments and condominiums would be…MORE

[Former Burien City Manager Gary] Long's opinion piece of May 16 week about the controversy surrounding the demolition of the Lora Lake Apartments was long on accusations and short on facts.

We proudly present you with a small glimpse at the past of the place we know and love, even with its problems, its challenges and its drawbacks.

It was a challenge to put all this together for you in the context of a 16 page newspaper when…MORE

When you imagine what West Seattle was like in 1907 and look around today, it nearly blows the mind to think of the vast changes in the next 100 years.

Will we be using the West Seattle Bridge, still, with its soaring beauty of today or…MORE

There ought to be a law about all these earlier and earlier primary elections. If this game of "we wanna be first" keeps up soon there will be all-year elections not only for president but for every political office.

That will be chaos,…MORE

I ride my bike year-round as my main means of transportation. My bike is not a toy. I don't aspire to be Lance Armstrong. I'm not too poor to afford a car. I choose a bicycle because its healthier for me, and healthier for the city I live in. I'm…MORE

I ride my bike year-round as my main means of transportation. My bike is not a toy. I don't aspire to be Lance Armstrong. I'm not too poor to afford a car. I choose a bicycle because its healthier for me, and healthier for the city I live in. I'm…MORE

I was saddened to see recent news stories of apartment tenants losing their homes in Burien. I served as Burien City Manager for over seven years. I negotiated the Lora Lake Apartments agreements with the City and the Port of Seattle.

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In early 2006 I commissioned a survey of Seattle Police Officers from David Brody, Washington State University Spokane criminal justice program coordinator and Nicholas Lovrich, director, Washington State University Division of Governmental…MORE

With the city putting more emphasis into bike lanes, while making parking harder and harder, we think the time has come for bicycle riders to have city or state "bicycling" licenses coupled with proper training on how to ride on streets shared or…MORE