Opinion

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

If the Evergreen High School Campus was a restaurant instead of a school, health inspectors would have shut it down long ago.   However, less stringent health standards seem to apply for school kids.  Rats scurry around nighttime Evergreen halls…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Historical dramas have always captured our imaginations. Like fantasy and science fiction, stories from our past transport us to another time and (often) place. When done well they are immersive, engaging and educational.…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

The latest Obama news spike to hit the air is his proposal for 'free' community college nationwide. If the proposal passes Congress and then the states, community college will be funded 75% by the Federal Government and 25…MORE

By Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles

It is exciting to see Seattle’s landscape and economy grow and evolve, but for every new crane on the horizon, there are hundreds of personal stories to be told.

Unfortunately, economic growth too…MORE

By Isabella Munson

People have the right to know what they are eating regardless of race, class, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, or religion. However, big corporations spend large sums of money to take away this basic right.

As a…MORE

By Marjorie Young

These days Zombies are everywhere; whether in TV, films, or fiction, they indeed seem to be ‘taking over’ the earth. Though fascination with these creatures definitely eludes me, their appeal cannot be denied. But why the…MORE