In the spirit of Halloween I have come up with a solution to the No. 1 problem in the world, how to find a girlfriend.
Every pathetic male on earth has faced this riddle, and a good answer has never been discovered.
When Jennifer Dunn first ran for public office, many people scoffed. Yes she was attractive, even a bit glamorous. Yes she was articulate. But her previous job was running a political party, which made her too partisan to effectively work together and govern. Oh, and she was also too conservative.
This past week I had the pleasure of taking my dad on a four day archery elk hunting trip at a private ranch in Idaho along the Idaho-Wyoming boarder. The trip was both exciting, challenging, successful and exhausting. But most of all it was a once in a life time trip with my dad.
You need to make a decision soon about how to vote on Initiative 1033. The absolutely clear answer is to vote NO! In voting no, you will be joined by those who took the time to read the details of this latest attack by Tim Eyman on vital services to our community.
Strange, how recent history sometimes repeats itself.
In 1992, Democrats swept to power in both Olympia and Washington D.C.
A popular young liberal president with commanding majorities in both houses of Congress set out to reform health care. And closer to home the Democratic governor enjoyed expanded majorities in the Legislature. Republicans were divided, out of touch and facing longtime decline.
Cash-for-clunkers was extremely successful by any measure. Even those who can’t fathom government doing anything right were soon silenced by…
I’m not a sports columnist, but everyone seems to have an opinion about whether Seattle Mariners’ legend Ken Griffey Jr. should hang it up or hang on for one final season.
If all goes as planned, Vancouver teacher-astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger will be on board Space Shuttle Discovery when it lifts off next March 10. It may be the last time she flies in space because the current shuttle flights end in 2010. The replacement orbiter, the Constellation, may not fly until 2014 at the earliest.
As kids across King County head back to school, parents, teachers and law enforcement are all thinking about ways to keep them safe at school. For years, we’ve emphasized the risks of narcotics and we’ve made great headway against methamphetamine. With those successes, however, some students are turning to the medicine cabinet.
Last weekend my wife and I saw Crosby, Stills, and Nash at the Puyallup fair, a fun memory. As a former police detective and commander of a homicide task force, I’ve seen things I’d like to forget. As a lawmaker, and chair of the House committee that deals with crime and public safety, I can’t imagine why it’d make sense for mental hospitals to take a criminally insane murderer on a field trip to the fair.
Every year for the past half decade or so, a holiday controversy has turned the Puget Sound area into a national laughingstock.
In 2005, the giving tree at Medina elementary school was taken down because some people speculated that other people might be offended by a Christmas tree in a public school.
After walking out of your doctor’s office with a prescription many believe it is the end of the process to determine the treatment a patient receives. These days, unfortunately, the doctor’s decision is only the beginning of that process.
Sometimes you can step into controversy while trying to avoid it. This happened a couple weeks ago when the Bellevue School District opted not to carry President Obama’s speech to school kids, and instead made a video available to teachers on request. Rather than irritate the few, the district angered the many.
Aristotle once said, “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Harvesting that fruit will require some hard work. Especially as our school administrators and teachers try to do more with less.
All this discussion we’ve been having around the office lately about hair (see Dennis Box’s Sept. 3 Our Corner) got me thinking about my own hair dilemma.
Last year was the single worst season in Seattle sports history. The University of Washington Huskies, a dynasty under Don…
Over the past couple of months I’ve written two columns about health care reforms that actually hold down costs while improving people’s health care.
On the eve of the Kent teachers’ strike, I attended the Kent School Board Meeting. The discussion was charged with emotion. Parents, educators, classified staff and students spoke passionately to school board members. Every person in that room wanted a resolution to the impending strike, but the Board’s response was to tell the audience to contact their state legislators for additional dollars.
I am going to reveal a few shocking secrets in this column.
There are people around here who think I do not understand hair lingo when it comes to… women (more commonly known to men as the unknowable ones).
Have you ever gazed at Mount Rainier on a cloudless day and wondered what it would take to climb it?