Opinion

I interview myself This is an interview I conducted with myself.

I: You get your name in the paper all the time. What's with that?Me: I' the editor…what sort of question is that?I: Nobody seems to know anything about you. Only your name.…MORE

I interview myself This is an interview I conducted with myself.

I: You get your name in the paper all the time. What's with that?Me: I' the editor…what sort of question is that?I: Nobody seems to know anything about you. Only your name.…MORE

I interview myself This is an interview I conducted with myself.

I: You get your name in the paper all the time. What's with that?Me: I'm the editor…what sort of question is that?I: Nobody seems to know anything about you. Only your name.…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Welcome back. Last week I gave a brief summary of our use and misuse of the infamous material known as plastic. I mentioned that the US produces over 30 million tons a year (2/3 of which is essentially single-use) yet only…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Let’s take a break from the recent film binge and talk about something we all use every single day. No, I’ll go further and say this is something we use nearly every single hour of every day. In 2010, the world produced 330…MORE

By Marjorie Young

To the overwhelming joy of so many in the region, the Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl bound! The NFC Championship game against the San Francisco Forty-Niners was a true nail-biter, the outcome decided in the final seconds…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

By age 12, we all know Hollywood is fake. We’ve learned about wires, prosthetics, and special effects. If you’re like me, you’ve converted hours of behind the scenes footage into hours of messing about with friends and a…MORE

By Gwen Davis “What does it say about us, the Democratic Party, when we elect a socialist? What does it say when a union gives up a hard-fought fight to a corporation, even when we have Democrat elected officials? What does it say about us?”…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas – if that’s your thing. If not, hopefully you had a wonderful Hannukah, Kwanzaa, and the like. Some of my friends have celebrated Aslan Day (Aslan, the lion from the Narnia series)…MORE

With New Year bells chiming, some Ballard readers might be thinking of their own mortality. How many years will we amble about in occupied splendored haze thinking about the job, global warming, commerce, Facebook, smartphones, play-dough, and…MORE