Opinion

By Kyra-lin Hom

There is a modern, 'tried and true' narrative of addiction. It involves chemicals, brain structure, something called the reward circuit, maybe another thing called the pleasure principle – and quite simply it's all very…MORE

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I’m glad to see the uproar about measles vaccination. It’s high time this issue is addressed. One of my biggest obstacles as a school nurse in the Highline School District was unimmunized students. Parents objected, fearing…MORE

By Megan Wildenradt

By now most of us living here have heard about the challenge for this year’s state legislative session—too many obligations and not enough revenue to support them all. That gives our state lawmakers a tough job to…MORE

By Marjorie Young

The recent Academy Awards featured a number of memorable moments, but for me there was one that particularly resonated; the acceptance speech of Graham Moore, winner of best adapted screenplay for ‘The Imitation Game.’ He…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

When I was in undergrad, we film school students used to play 'guess the major' when killing time in our film school lobby. We'd lounge under the monitors displaying recent student projects sans volume and point out the…MORE

By Ed Feeley

The Burke-Gilman Trail is the crown jewel of our regional trail system. Every day, thousands of people walk, run, bike and inline skate this multi-use trail connecting Bothell to Golden Gardens—well, everywhere on the trail…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Last week I shared my experiences as a brand new video game player – or 'gamer,' as the lingo goes. I find the games fun but not exactly the addictive thrill of which I've heard so much. That doesn't mean I'll stop playing…MORE

By Lucy Cavener

Animal treatment in factory farms is dangerous for humans, disastrous for our future, and unethical to the extreme. The way that factory farms raise their chickens, without light or space, injecting them with antibiotics…MORE

By Marjorie Young

It was a seemingly ordinary moment that entirely changed my life. I was thirteen, newly arrived in San Francisco after my parents’ divorce, when my married older sister phoned to invite my elder brother to the movies. An…MORE

 By James Robert Deal, Attorney   Traffic is bad and getting worse. Our population and our economy are growing. Finishing Link Light Rail, widening the freeways, eliminating choke points will take decades and cost billions of dollars. After…MORE