Opinion

By Kyra-lin Hom

I've been awfully serious here lately. What with my hammering on the toes of Big Food industries, terrifyingly zealous Jesus camps and big-mouthed hate mongers you'd think I never find my eggs sunny-side up. I don't know…MORE

Do kids ride bikes anymore? I see scores of school kids walking through Burien coming from Highline High but rarely any on a bike. Do they have them and only ride after school?

I got my first bike when I was ten. My 12-year brother did…MORE

Former Highline Times freelance photographer Jerry Gay is forever linked with Burien by one photographic image snapped 39 years ago.

It’s a photo of four exhausted volunteer firefighters resting after battling an early morning blaze at…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Some weeks I struggle for column topics. No matter how I wrack my brain, I just can't get impassioned about anything. And then some weeks, for better or for worse, inspiration falls into my lap.

This week, at…MORE

By Marjorie Young

Since my previous column dealt with the (thankfully rare) ‘darker’ side of my work, I’ve received requests to describe more ‘uplifting’ episodes. My only challenge; having so many amazing incidents to choose from.

By Peggy Sturdivant

There’s a bulletin board just past the yoga room at Ballard Health Club. From it, looking right at me after class, was the face of a young man, his fair skin especially pale against a gray backdrop. “My name is Asher,”…MORE

By Tim RobinsonASSOCIATE PUBLISHER

(Editor’s Note: Tim Robinson is filling in for Jerry Robinson this week.)

The publisher is busy this week writing his first book, again. It is called "Do as I say, not as I did."
 I think he was…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Hello again, everyone. I apologize for my absence last week. The cough I had been holding off for several days made a final charge to devastating effect. I was rendered rather witless without warning and was thus unable to…MORE

No one likes to pay the piper but our state is in dire need of some rehab on our bridges and roads. I don’t mind paying to cross Lake Washington or even the Narrows Bridge to get back from Gig Harbor. With all the talk lately of tolls and Good-To…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

I no sooner set foot over the threshold at Secret Garden Books than Events Coordinator Suzanne Perry held up a piece of paper to me like a Russian figure skating judge, proclaiming, “This is big!”

After being out…MORE