For all those crusading bus riders out there who wanted to save certain bus routes, including Magnolia’s No. 24, King County Metro wants you to know that the torches and the pitchforks can be put away.
We recently finished celebrating African-Americans during Black History Month in February, an altogether worthy recognition of the contributions of Black people in this country. A decidedly insufficient honor given their 300 years of suffering under white oppression, We are, it would seem by the reactions of some to our current president, far from achieving anything resembling complete acceptance of people of color in our society.
It’s been more than eight years since the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) first announced plans to demolish and redevelop the 561-unit, 28-acre Yesler Terrace public-housing project.
The news wasn’t surprising, but that didn’t rob it of its sting.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, Spring arrived almost instantaneously as in 0 to 65 in 27 hours.
I feel as though I’m just waking up from a dream. A 25-year-long dream.
The completely counter-intuitive legal doctrine of corporate personhood is, of course, far more than simply one of the countless sources of jokes at the expense of Mitt RMoney (Romney).
The day the Seattle World’s Fair opened — a mostly sunny Saturday, April 21, 1962 — I stood on a pitcher’s mound on Bainbridge Island, where I grew up, and looked longingly over the batter’s helmet toward the Space Needle eight miles across the water.
It appears you can fight King County Metro and win…at least for a while.
Did your pet miss out on the last "Picture Your Pooch in the Park" event? Was your pet there last time and made so many friends that they'd love to do it again?
A pair of recent poetry books issued by two Spokane publishing houses has one thing in common: Poet, teacher and editor Christopher Howell had a hand in each. Both are good books that deserve good readers.