By all that I hold sacred and with the understanding that not only must the physician and the attendants be…
For children and teens, the holidays offer many possibilities for the “perfect” celebration which because it’s “perfect” is rarely found…
It’s not unusual to walk into a Starbucks and see several cops sitting at tables chatting while on break or getting ready to go on shift. Nor is it unusual to see a squad car pulled over by the side of the road, with an officer talking to his partner or jotting down notes. These are the moments in an officer’s workday where he or she can feel safe.
It is hypocritical of us to demand that Knotty Bodies change locations or be put out of business when we also willingly allow our children to watch far worse on our televisions, in our movie theaters, in our music and in the video games they play. This café is yet another distraction from the far more important issues that we actually need to be paying attention to.
Hey, you! Yeah, you with the tattoos and the earbuds pumping music into your brain. I have something important to…
A friend told me the other day that he enjoyed Thanksgiving even more than Christmas. “There’s less emphasis on shopping…
A whole year minus one day after Twilight came out, New Moon, the second movie in the Twilight Saga hit the theaters. The Twilight series is most popular with girls around my age, and the line to see New Moon was out of the theater at Lincoln Square Cinemas.
Thanksgiving is still more than a week away, but the Christmas season already surrounds us. We see it in the…
After a bountiful summer of farmer’s markets, and the harvest of backyard produce, Halloween marks the first true test of…
There was a time when health care was affordable; doctors in private practice and hospitals were public, non-profit. As a…
From steroid-using athletes to celebrities who bounce between clubs and rehab, today’s role models can leave a lot to be…
Two things are certain about today’s real estate market: statistics don’t tell the whole story, and technology is huge. With…
Today we gather to celebrate and honor the great courage and sacrifice of our nation’s veterans. It is because of…
Within days of last November’s election, stories throughout the media began comparing Barack Obama to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The FDR…
Near the end of the long list of items on our King County ballots comes a very important one: Charter…
When it became evident that the Bellevue High School renovation project was continuing forward with little consideration for the concerns…
When we fill out our November ballots we need to think about what impact approving Referendum 71 would have on the lives of registered domestic partners. Might it add to the responsibility, accountability and security of their relationships? Might it allow registered domestic partners to be treated equally under state law, grant them more care and respect and assist them to feel less marginalized? Might their children feel more like a ‘real family’ and feel better protected? Are these values that we should encourage in our communities?
Initiative 1033: Vote no I-1033 is another attempt by initiative junkie Tim Eyman to add unnecessary fine print to Washington…
It was the year of the yard waste. Our trash collection company had delivered spanking fresh green toters so that…
“Where the Wild Things Are” is a new movie based on the children’s book by the same title by Maurice…
