Opinion
Light-rail maintenance yard in Bel-Red area never part of city’s vision | Other Voices
For over the last 10 years I have been involved with studying the proposed light rail alignment. The…
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Research can have its ups and downs | Ann Oxrieder
Doing research is one of the most exciting parts of writing a novel, though some people – including…
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Let’s modernize workforce development
As colleagues on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, we’ve had our share of disagreements…
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Inslee fishing for a solution | Jerry Cornfield
Finesse is a word rarely used to describe Gov. Jay Inslee’s approach to fashioning policy. Yet in the…
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Safe and sane fireworks? Be smart instead and let professionals do the job | Editorial
We’re a week away from one of the grandest days in the year – the Fourth of July.…
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My ravine experience | Other Voices
Jeri Albertini of Bellevue writes that she “was lucky enough to be able to cross the ‘Bridge over…
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Kids are great, but please control them | Other Voices
First, a disclaimer. I like kids. I genuinely do. However, I do not enjoy being around poorly behaved…
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Resources for ‘The Talk’| Darcy Brixey
I was in grade school, riding in the car alone with my mother one evening, when she decided…
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How many lobbyist’s dinners are too many? | Jerry Cornfield
Amid the dialectic contours in Olympia they are trying to figure out if influence can be peddled with…
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Starbucks tuition plan: We’ll have a double-major with that frappuccino | Editorial
One has to like the move by Starbucks to pay tuition for employees to attend Arizona State University…
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Meeting and losing a friend | Ann Oxrieder
A week ago Ana died. Heart attack? Stroke? Something that took her fast.
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Thoughts of the Mariners – and dad’s last moments
Silence filled the crowd. Anticipation drenched the air. It was a tied game, the bases were loaded and…
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Constantine’s veto of council plan not the answer | Editorial
The King County Council made the right decision Monday to deal with Metro’s financial problems. Unfortunately, King County…
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Questions remain for Oso commission | Jerry Cornfield
Establishing a commission to examine the causes and consequences of the Oso mudslide is taking longer than Snohomish…
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Today’s cartoon | June 6, 2014
A $15-an-hour burger-flipper will make about as much as a starting teacher.
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Veterans deserve VA facilities to help, not hurt health needs | Editorial
It’s a sad commentary that as we note the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when troops stormed the beaches…
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Republicans find an immigrant’s voice to run against DelBene for Contress | Jerry Cornfield
In an online video announcing his campaign for Congress, Pedro Celis acknowledges the audibly unmistakable: “In case you…