With kids across King County back in 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.
The city of Bothell, in collaboration with King County, is making great strides in its efforts to preserve and protect local open spaces. The city has applied and received preliminary approval for county funds to purchase two open-space parcels:
We, the youth of America, might seem to be a generation more concerned with texting and parties than anything happening…
“Cross over the bridge, cross over the bridge. Leave your reckless way of livin’, cross over the bridge …” —…
Vanpooling is a little known public transit option that turns out to be the most efficient, flexible and effective in…
As the school year rolls into its fourth week, I have been in conversation with many of our community’s students….
Most of us were bullied at one time or another when we were kids. More often than not, it was…
How appropriate it was to ask Skyview Junior High eighth-graders Hailey Hunt and Jenna Hyppa to serve as emcees. The…
From time to time, I receive press releases from the city of Bothell public-information officer. This one caught my eye…
Dear Timi, My 12-year old granddaughter is getting chunky. I’m alarmed by this since she was always a healthy and…
Joy, discovery and sorrow have filled my waning days of summer. One of my most satisfying assignments in working with…
One of the great things about call-in radio is that you get to hear ordinary people connect reality to public…
Dealing with stress
How writer spent her summer vacation
News flash: Kenmore does it again with Seattle Magazine naming the city No. 1 in area places to live. First,…
Baseball season traditionally opens in early April. Football season starts in mid-September. And Washington’s political season traditionally begins on Labor…
You know it’s election time when candidates and voters become tense and the letters to the editor come flying into the e-mail box and the phone calls are aplenty.
Three short years ago this week, an 18-year-old young woman named Laura fell asleep. Her falling asleep quickly resulted in…
