Opinion

By Pat Cashman

Father’s Day is coming up this week---and so is my dad’s 95th birthday. I sure wish he was here to celebrate both occasions---but he’s been gone for thirty years. He was always my “old man” even though he never…MORE

By Amanda Knox

(It’s worth noting that Chris and I had just spent two nights in a hot pink Bavarian hotel. The first night we slept in a turquoise room under the placid gaze of a swarm of golden cherubs and their electric candelabra. The…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant “I need to take a break,” I told Ken Robinson, my nominal boss, Co-Publisher and General Manager of what will always be the Ballard News-Tribune to me. “I’ve been doing this for ten years.”

Ten minutes later I was at…MORE

By Jean Godden

Twenty years ago, Newsweek Magazine famously announced: "Everyone's swimming to Seattle." Pictured on the magazine cover was Washington, D.C., pundit Michael Kinsley, face to face with a salmon and wearing a yellow rain…MORE

By Jamie Margolin

It’s a crazy time to be a teen.

President Trump just announced that the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement. But that is only one of the many actions his administration has taken to give a proverbial…MORE

By Jean Godden There's a big gaping hole in the heart of our city. The unsightly cavity -- a pit without a pendulum -- blights the block between Third and Fourth and Cherry and James. It has been yawning there since 2005, a full dozen years.…MORE

By Marjorie Young

The news was grim, as is so often the case these days. A suicide bomber had attacked a sold-out Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. As a pop star with a huge following among teens and tweens, it was inevitable…MORE

By Jean Godden

May is the month of lost cats in Seattle. When I check news on a neighborhood website or when I browse through local blogs, the top story often is about someone's quest for a missing Tom or Muffin or maybe Oscar.…MORE

By Amanda Knox

Approaching Century Link Field in a throng of green-and-blue people, flanked by an ecstatic marching band, I couldn’t help but think about the Roman Colosseum, and how sporting events have been experienced by humans in the…MORE

By Pulemau Savusa In 2013, I graduated from my local high school in the Highline School District. My sister, who was a year older than me, had just graduated in 2012 from a high school in Seattle Public Schools. Because we were both in high…MORE