Pairing Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen may not appear, at first blush, to be an inspired or even wise casting choice. Thornton seems to require an actress of equal volatility to balance out the equation. But Madsen has a genius for making sense out of her leading men.
During the winter months I am more likely to see my next-door neighbor at the grocery store than I am on the street. Gabbing neighbors are evidence that the grocery store is what's known as the third place that a community needs in order to thrive. On consecutive Sunday afternoon visits I've concluded the third place of choice is Town & Country's Ballard Market.
Nearly 20 years ago, the discovery of Ballard Market directed our house hunt. My first Syttende Mai Parade featuring the Ballard Market Shopping Cart Drill Team reinforced the choice.
Ballard High School junior Jayson Luu may have lost the election for Associated Student Body president last year, but he has been busy getting his fellow students involved in charity.
After the election loss, the school's Parent Teacher Association asked Luu to attend their meetings.
Luu agreed to and asked the association for fundraising ideas he could be involved with.
Voting on options for replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct is the biggest waste of time and a million dollars we have seen in a long time. The best that can be said for the exercise is that some giant political egos may become squashed.
The entire fight over the viaduct shows once again that our Seattle society has slipped off the rails and the animals are in charge of the zoo.
Let's start at the beginning.
Tax cut plan is proposed
By Paul Guppy
Tax collections continue to soar. In the 30 days from mid-December to mid-January, the state gathered over $1.1 billion from its citizens, representing an increase of $53 million more in tax money compared to revenue estimates. At the current rate, the people of Washington are paying about 9 percent more in tax money to Olympia compared to the same period last year.
At the same time, Governor Christine Gregoire's proposed budget includes no general tax relief for citizens.
The issue of global warming has been causing many of us to re-examine out commitment to the environment. Buying a hybrid car or installing solar panels are great ideas, but the costs involved might be too high for many of us.
However, there are simple and inexpensive choices we can make starting today that will bring us closer to a collective goal of healing the environment. Spring will be here soon and many of us work on spring cleaning inside and outside our homes.
Dear Hapless Seattle North/South Commuters to Industrial Parks.
I wonder if our cute mental midgit Mayor and City Hall wonders have ever experienced one of Seattle's, Cute Earthquake Shakers?
I have subscribed to the Ballard News-Tribune for years. I've been hoping to one day see a column like Peggy Sturdivant's At Large In Ballard. Today's column "Positive Change" (Feb. 14) is a truly positive change for the paper. It's got the perfect tone/slant for a reader like me who likes to dig into the soul of a place. Today's column is perfection: featuring a local place, a global issue, and a local person doing everyday neighborhood things and encountering something new/interesting/thought provoking.
I look forward to reading more of Ms.
With the mayor battling for a tunnel, the governor pushing for a new viaduct, and Seattle voters wondering if their March 13 vote will even slightly affect the outcome, the future of vehicular transportation along the downtown waterfront remains murky.
Is there a feasible third alternative?
In August, the Washington State Department of Transportation presented to the Seattle City Council with some of the different proposals state engineers had studied on their way to ultimately recommending a six-lane, two-deck tunnel.
Seattle Parks and Recreation Superintendent Ken Bounds has asked the group involved with creating a new Ballard park to rethink their preferred name and identify one that honors a historic community figure.
The Seattle Park Naming Committee supported the community's preferred name for the park, Ballard Corners Park, which is to be built along the west side of 17th Avenue Northwest between Northwest 62nd and 63rd streets.
However, Bounds said it would be a "missed opportunity" to not consider naming it after someone directly involved with Ballard's history or who has made
