For more than 20 years, British Hour Radio presented pre-Christmas special radio programs, culminating with Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas message on Christmas Day, in keeping with its format of news, nostalgia, history, humor and the words and music of the British Isles.
Recent news reports have revealed President-elect Barack Obama's interest in reintroducing music and art in the lives of our youth by way of a pay-it-back system is great news, especially after years of the whittling away of music programs in schools throughout the nation.
The 15th anniversary of Queen Anne's Holiday Magic festival filled the local streets and brought much needed business to the local merchants. The mantra this year is to buy locally. And by all appearances, there was great sales activity at the stores.
A man in his early 40s was stabbed twice in the side and once in the back around 11 p.m. Nov. 25 during a fight with two other men in Kinnear Park.
In principle, I guess, one can get addicted to anything. I'm not just talking about drugs, alcohol, caffeine, nicotine or food. People can develop addictions to other people, their work, shopping, television or the Internet. The latter seem especially prone to cause addictive behavior.
Though it's not written in chalk yet, Center School, the alternative high school situated inside the Seattle Center, is now on the list of schools that will merge with another school within the Seattle Schools district.
It's good to see Seattle Schools weighing all its options, hosting workshops and open-to-the-public meetings as it tries to solve overcrowding issues to the north, under enrollment issues to the south and a deflated budget right smack in the middle of the system. The planning and searching for solutions has become a game of musical chairs.
There are many valid criticisms that can be leveled at the banking industry in the wake of the subprime mortgage collapse but Mike Davis' arguments in "Home-loan system needs fixing" (December 10th) are so porous, they could be mistaken for the Husky football defense.
The seasonal storms form out in the North Pacific and then move east, bringing with them the cold, the rain and the low gray clouds that hang over the city like the proverbial damp shroud.
According to experts at the U.S. Census Bureau, the eight-year presidency of George Bush, and the financial crisis-economic disaster of that same period, is transforming the way we as a country look, and where we live.
The state Legislature is expected to argue Washington's somewhat archaic three-tiered system for distributing beer and wine when it convenes Monday, Jan. 12. One of the key points in the current law surely to be contested is the prevention of quantity discounts. That means wholesalers like Costco cannot use its enormous buying power to sell beer and wine for much less than any other retailer or wholesaler.
The 2008 year has managed to introduce us to many interesting political figures from former Governor Elliot Spitzer, fallen Governor Rod Blagojevich, Senator Larry Craig, and the beloved Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.
Our Lady of Fatima's sixth-grade varsity basketball team went undefeated during the Knights of Columbus Christmas Invitational Basketball Tournament in December.
Despite snow-related closures and overloaded telephone systems ,the Employment Security Department took in a record number of new unemployment claims in December.