The Seattle City Council has approved $70,000 for the creation of a dog off-leash area in Kinnear Park in Queen Anne. But dog advocates want the location moved.
Few occupations enjoy as much respect and authority as the medical profession. This is not only true in our society where only academically trained and licensed professionals can practice what is known as Western medicine. Most cultures around the world hold the practitioners of medicine in high esteem as people whose knowledge and skill endow them with special powers.
Lawton Elementary School is celebrating its 100th year and officials and PTA members are preparing events and an auction.
"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience" - George Will
Your latest issue is a perfect example of how the press has given Sen. Obama a free pass in this election year.
Having read your recent endorsement of the Democrat wonder child wherein you conclude that "It's time" (for Obama) I have questions. On what earthly basis do you support a politician with about as much experience as most of the kids that deliver your newspaper?
It was heartening to read in the dailies that Sonics great Gary Payton foresees professional basketball returning to Seattle by 2011.
Wednesday's third and final presidential debate hit an emotional note for not only Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, but for Joe the Plumber. During the final presidential debate at Hofstra University, both candidates addressed where Joe the Plumber, also known as Joe Wurzelbacher, stood in their tax and health care plans.
Merrill Gardens, the largest senior housing provider in Washington, is getting even bigger.
I am encouraged to continue the Speight Jenkins saga which I can report on firsthand having been present at the opening of all the operas under his direction for the past 20 years, and having written columns, previews, and nostalgic reports on most of them.
This week, as Capitol Hill and neighborhoods across the region begin receiving absentee ballots, we'll have the chance to vote for Proposition 1, the mass transit expansion measure that adds more Express bus hours, expands the popular Sounder commuter rail, and builds 36 miles of new light rail.
PALMER GIVEN CITIZEN AWARDLongtime Queen Anne resident Rosie Palmer was presented with a U.S. Conference of Mayor's End Hunger Award at an October 6th luncheon held at the Palace Kitchen restaurant.
The Seattle Pacific women's soccer team fell short of avenging its only loss of the season Oct. 16, tying the Western Washington University Vikings, 1-1, in a thrilling double overtime contest.
The so-called Magnolia Neighborhood Planning Council filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court Oct. 13 to block housing from being built on surplus military property in Fort Lawton.
The overcrowding issue at the Queen Anne/Magnolia cluster of schools, and the cluster to the northeast, has become priority one among Seattle Schools board members in the past few weeks.