Opinion

By Marjorie Young

‘Love is blind’…‘There are none so blind as those who will not see’…‘When you fall in love…smoke gets in your eyes.’ These oft-repeated phrases have moved into the realm of cliché. Yet, how maddeningly, even bewilderingly…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

This week has been one heck of a whirlwind. From Chicago (where I live now) to New York City to Washington, D.C. and back again. All in just seven days. I've done much crazier – don't get me started on China, but only a few…MORE

By Scott Anthony

With four police cars and a dedicated sign saying, ‘Accident Investigation’, I knew the accident on Military Road was messy.

I peeled off to take a side road and the detour took me past the other side of the crash…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Ladies, tell me if this sounds familiar. You spend hours in the gym a week. You buy the workout tapes. You attend the yoga or Pilates classes and do all the proper stretches. You follow your nutrition plan to the letter……MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Stockpiling food, water and bandages used to be for the paranoid. Burying homemade caches of money and weapons used to be alien concepts associated with survivalist crazies and backyard neighborhood militiamen. Hand-crank…MORE

By Scott Anthony

We stopped at Taco Bell for lunch yesterday and while in line, we saw the girl behind the counter chatting with a customer about a coin she received in payment from a previous customer.

When I got up to give my food…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

There’s a new rising trend spreading outward from Chicago-land, and it’s causing quite a stir. Michelle Lytle and Robyn Graves are the Chicago-based creators of a new and controversial “TaTa Top.” This fashion/social…MORE

by Dan Rosner

The Highline School Distict's Raisbeck Aviation High School in Tukwilla, a national leader in STEM-based education, recently admitted 105 students to their class of 2018 from a pool of 325 applicants. Statistical analysis…MORE

by Ken Robinson Managing Editor

I just had to laugh. When I learned that the first person in line at Cannabis City was a 65-year-old woman from Ballard, and that about 80 other buyers, hipsters in skinny-leg jeans, were lined up too, I had…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

To address an issue from my last column (the Supreme Court decision regarding cell phone searches): No, I don't believe it's right for criminals to get off on technicality. However, as soon as we start administering…MORE