Frank Shiers occupy political cartoon published in the Oct. 21 edition.
The 2011 Legislative session was the hardest for me and for most lawmakers, even those who have been serving for many years. As we prepare for another round of heart wrenching budget decisions, I want to stop and share some good news that came out of my work from last session
This is an unusual column for me.
It is a political and personal story about a candidate that goes to the core of American politics and far beyond.
Following the Tahoma and Kent school district cross country teams has been a great experience for me.
I ran cross country all four years at Sammamish High School, so it is fun for me to write about it, having once shared their perspective.
I can certainly tell the political season has entered the full bore mental twilight zone.
Calls have been coming in at the office that in other situations I would consider the person partially paranoid, suspiciously psychotic or the more technical term — political-campaign nuts.
I’m the kind of person who doesn’t say no very often.
So, when Principal Joe Potts asked me to be on the Kentlake Site Council little more than a year ago, I couldn’t think of a good reason to say no. I agreed to participate.
The other day I was flipping through the cable channels and came across the movie “Colors” with Robert Duvall and Sean Penn. The movie is all about two Los Angeles police officers working in the Gang Unit. They deal with generational, entrenched gang issues in certain neighborhoods, and the overall tone of the movie is how hopeless and difficult reducing gang violence can be.
The political wind machine is shifting into high gear with about a month before the election verdicts are handed down from the voters.
The Kent Chamber has taken a stand on Initiative 1183 due to input from our members who encouraged us to support the initiative.
The most recent verbal fencing match that broke out Sept. 20 at the Kent City Council meeting during a public hearing was a picturesque portrait of the communication problems that pop up with indecipherable codes and laws.
It’s no secret that I hate the color pink.
True, I have come to see it as a neutral color since my daughter Lyla arrived almost two years ago, but still it’s not a color I have in abundance in my wardrobe.
We are considering a new series of enterprise reporting written by TJ Martinell who works out of the Covington-Maple Valley-Black Diamond Reporter office.
The subject is online dating.
I had just gotten out of the shower when the first plane hit.
I was listening to Howard Stern tell a story about not having sex with Pamela Anderson when he was interrupted by his producer saying he didn’t want to spoil the fun, but had some news.
Every once in a while I get the crazy idea it would be fun to be a political consultant — until the political season starts and I see the frenzy on the faces of the candidates and their helpers.
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I grabbed a few books from my overstuffed shelves the other night while lying in bed. On the wall next to my bed is a book shelf that extends from the floor to the ceiling and it is stuffed with every book I can get on it.
Gang violence seems to be everywhere today, even right here in our own suburban neighborhoods – and it’s mobile, moving across city borders. So, how can south and east King County communities work together to deal with it?
The life and times of the newspaper business has been a rocky road over the past few years both from the inside and outside.
I was driving around Kent a few days ago and noticed chickens scurrying around behind a house. Chickens have become a popular item on city council agendas lately. Seattle passed an ordinance allowing residents to raise chickens and the Tukwila City Council on Monday was working on a similar ordinance.
There is a lot of talk about teaching and teachers these days.
Educating kids has been a political punching bag for decades, particularly since the 1980s when we started hearing stories that our kids were all dummies and children from some country over there all earned a PhD at 3 years old.
