Opinion

I have known Steve Cox for six or seven years and in that time came to regard him as a friend. I believe that he regarded me likewise.

This Community has lost a true asset, the kind that is not measured in monetary value but in human value…MORE

Like sticky flypaper. As soon as you get your foot unstuck from one issue, you get stuck on the very next step.

Improving schools is sticky business. There's no simple solution, and with every proposal, everybody who ever went to school…MORE

Let's talk about success in Seattle public schools

By Irene Stewart

Like sticky flypaper. As soon as you get your foot unstuck from one issue, you get stuck on the very next step.

Improving schools is sticky business. There's…MORE

There is a reasonable expectation that a place that provides entertainment with alcoholic beverages should take reasonable precautious against rowdy or noisy customers. Certainly over-serving a customer is something that such establishments must…MORE

Burien has been a community for more than 100 years and has been an incorporated city for close to 14 years. Ever since we became a city, the people have envisioned having a vibrant, alive "town square" in the middle of our downtown.

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A fine example of all the good that a man and police officer can do was wiped away in an instant last week when bullets fired by a habitual criminal killed White Center Deputy Sheriff Steve Cox.

Deputy Cox was a man above the plane of most…MORE

Before Congress adjourns this year, it needs to renew the federal tax deduction for Washington state sales taxes. Our delegation should insist on it.

If they fail to do so . . . they will be guilty of discriminating against the citizens…MORE

When is a diet not a diet but an artery clogging activity? The answer appears to be when the Seattle Department of Transportation decides to put busy arterial city streets on the "road diet."

A "road diet" is what the city says it wants to…MORE

Sales tax exemption is a must

By Don C. Brunell

Before Congress adjourns this year, it needs to renew the federal tax deduction for Washington state sales taxes. Our delegation should insist on it.

If they fail to do so…MORE

Do you feel safe in your home?

By Peter Steinbrueck

The Charter of the City of Seattle states that "there shall be maintained adequate police protection in each district of the City."

Do you feel we have enough police…MORE