Enrollment remains open in Seattle Public Schools for the 2008-09 school year, which began on Sept. 3.
Families which have not yet registered and enrolled students for school this fall are encouraged to do so prior to the first day of school.
Once upon a day quite dreary
I had cause to send a query
Stating I could not sincerely
Clearly hear my dial tone
It was in the bleak December
Christmas time as I remember
I'd asked Santa for a blender
I could call my very own
To continue with my fable
My phone sitting on the table
I lived in Seattle for almost 40 years and miss it terribly. Now I'm in Pennsylvania, but I still take your paper. I was reading about your bag situation and decided to write.
The bag I'm sending (included with letter) is our answer to this problem. The bags are sold for 99 cents at each cashier's booth. We just use them over and over. They are sturdy and last a long time.
Good luck with your problem.
Dorothy Jackson
West Grove, PA
Living with Seattle's economic downturn, with housing values and sale prices dropping significantly, rents skyrocketing, wages stagnant, jobs hard to find, consumers straining with household budgets, purchasing power down and the Consumer Price Index is more than double its predicted increase, I applaud the citizens of Seattle and their support groups for collecting petition signatures, 14,000 needed and 22,000 submitted on time, and putting this ordinance to a vote of the people.
A 20 cent charge (fee or tax) for forgetting to bring your own reusable grocery bag to the grocery, con
What a silly column on "going green" by suggesting we would just have to buy plastic bags to line our garbage containers instead of getting them for "free" from the stores. The idea of going green is to get off our plastic addiction (i.e. cover everything in plastic). How about rinsing out your garbage can every so often instead of buying or re-using plastic bags to line it? Nowadays, all of the food waste goes into our compost or the "yard waste" container. So the garbage containers are kept relatively clean and no need for a plastic liner.
for Barack Obama
As electrifying as his acceptance speech was and as personable as he seems, Barack Obama will not be the presidential candidate I will vote for.
My reason is Mr. Obama's answer to a foundational question posed by Pastor Rick Warren at the forum sponsored by Saddleback Church in California earlier this month. After prefacing his question with the fact that there have been 40 million abortions since Roe vs.
an insult
Embarking westbound over the West Seattle Bridge, traffic congestion slows the journey and provides an up-close, rolling view of the neglect and grossly negative image that the city's landscape maintenance department provides along Fauntleroy Way.
Seeing the "Welcome to West Seattle Chamber of Commerce" sign barely visible, shrouded in high grass and weeds is terrible.
Based on some media coverage of the Democratic National Convention two weeks ago, some people might have had the impression the most important story was the "angry" Clinton supporters who were not planning to back Obama. But we know from first-hand experience that these reports were blown way out of proportion.
We both attended the convention, one of us as an Obama delegate, and one of us as a Clinton delegate. We both experienced the convention and a party committed to winning this election and being united in changing our country.
Sen.
Like most cities, Seattle is made up of streets, cars, buildings, and other built structures. Yet we have made up our minds through levy voting to try to preserve some of the green spaces and waterways as open space where perhaps some wildlife and natural habitat can exist among us. Except sometimes that same wildlife can be inconvenient.
What kinds of animals survive best our open spaces and waterways? Coyotes, raccoons, crows, opossum, beavers, squirrels, and so forth. Some of the animals we?d like to preserve are herons, owls, hawks, salamanders, chorus frogs, and salmon.
In the early 1940's in Morocco women and girls were segregated in the harem and a gatekeeper kept them from going out in the world without their father or an older brother accompanying them.
Life for the females was restricted to activities such as cooking, needlework and story telling and playacting these stories in the evenings when the women were alone in their compound.
