July 2008

On Spaceship Earth

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

Recently I visualized being a baby passenger landing on spaceship earth. Imagine a newborn coming to this world with no way of going back to the place of origin. A new baby cannot pick its birth parents.

How many young people have said to their own parents, "I didn't ask to be born." However, the baby has a mind and body that can usually survive in the world it is confined to as long as it has nurturing caregivers for the first few years.

No real surprises in

'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'

Directed by Nicholas Stoller

Rated R

(Two stars)

By Bruce Bulloch

A perilous ride on Harbor, Alki

By Dave Kannas

Bicycling along the path that parallels Harbor and Alki avenues can be hazardous to your health. You might think the opposite to be true, and it is most of the time. Why hazardous? Let me explain.

I'll take you on a not unusual, though imaginary, ride that starts at the Chelan Caf

Metro Transit is sick and in need a total overhaul if it is to take on the ever more serious role of supplying the city and surrounding metropolis with efficient transportation.

Not only do too many buses not go the way people need to go, but zooming fuel prices are putting the squeeze on the agency causing King County Executive Ron Sims to seek a 25-cent fare increase.

Just what squeezed drivers need to get them out the the car and onto buses?

First, too often the buses do not take people where they need to go.

Driving or walking around our city with my children has given me fair opportunity to show them, thanks to fellow residents, a plethora of examples of how not to behave.

But, today was different. Just around the corner from your offices near the Admiral Junction, we were witnesses to the better part of human nature.

We were in the turn lane facing west on Admiral Way, waiting to turn south onto California Avenue, when we noticed that there was a blind woman wandering into the street in front of the cleaners.

I just read your editorial on the issue of the Seattle jail sites (July 2). Good for you to remind everyone to take a breath and study the issue. I went into a dry cleaner in White Center today and he had flyers being distributed that start out "Seattle is already doing damage to our neighborhood, now they want to make it worse."

Of course the person distributing this information is part of the "We hate Seattle" crowd in White Center who are pushing for Burien annexation.

I also received an e-mail talking about how terrible a jail would be.

With bus ridership and diesel fuel prices at record levels, King County Executive Ron Sims is proposing a 25-cent fare increase.

Sims said he decided on the increase rather than cut service to pay for fuel costs that have skyrocketed over 60 percent this year alone.

"This worldwide fuel crisis comes at a time of historic ridership growth for Metro Transit - and is the reason why residents are turning to transit in record numbers as their own budgets are squeezed," Sims said.

On Spaceship Earth

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

Recently I visualized being a baby passenger landing on spaceship earth. Imagine a newborn coming to this world with no way of going back to the place of origin. A new baby cannot pick its birth parents.

How many young people have said to their own parents, "I didn't ask to be born." However, the baby has a mind and body that can usually survive in the world it is confined to as long as it has nurturing caregivers for the first few years.

No real surprises in

'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'

Directed by Nicholas Stoller

Rated R

(Two stars)

By Bruce Bulloch

A perilous ride on Harbor, Alki

By Dave Kannas

Bicycling along the path that parallels Harbor and Alki avenues can be hazardous to your health. You might think the opposite to be true, and it is most of the time. Why hazardous? Let me explain.

I'll take you on a not unusual, though imaginary, ride that starts at the Chelan Caf