For more than a year, critics called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games. They cited human rights violations and a government that tries to keep its citizens in the proverbial dark when it comes to liberty.
As someone with an economics degree, I am qualified to tell you, straight up, that our economy currently sucks.
Next week’s primary isn’t exactly a barn-burner as many races only have two candidates, at best.
In all its glory, fanfare and controversy, the 2008 Summer Olympics have finally arrived … and they’re online!
Domestic violence can ruin relationships, tear apart hearts and lead to cold-blooded murder.
It’s horrifically ironic.
This is usually the time of year when columnists don’t write about politics because nothing is really going on.
When he was about eleven years old, my brother Dan walked in the door one day after school wearing a New York Yankees ball cap. “Where’d you get that?” I asked him enviously. But before he had even replied, I already knew what his answer would be.
I received an e-mail this week with the subject ‘Stupid Question’ and I began to wonder, are there computer-users out there who feel inhibited from writing e-mails or calling in with their questions? I hope not!
There’s no question that bicycles are popular around here. The Burke-Gilman and Sammamish River trails draw bicyclists (and walkers) daily. Redmond even has a velodrome for bicycle racing.
You may find yourself asking this question if you’re the parent of a 12- to 16-year-old.
Suddenly, the sweet, loving kid you used to know has been replaced by this … this being that grunts one-word answers, holes up in his room for hours, and spurns any show of affection from you.
Like any writer, my first obligation is to my readers.
That obligation naturally extends to the accuracy, timeliness and appropriateness of the subject on which I choose to write. Additionally, there is an expectation that I convey relevant and useful technology-related information.
When the Port of Seattle and King County recently acquired the Eastside Rail Corridor from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway in a complicated three-way agreement, the public acquired a valuable corridor to be developed into a bike and recreational trail, which will preserve its potential for transportation options, possibly including high-capacity transit.
While recorded history stretches pretty far back, it doesn’t go back far enough to tell us the name of the person who invented the yard sale. Perhaps it was an early caveman named Og Yard. Maybe Og had decided to unload a bunch of spears and clubs he didn’t need any more by staging a cave sale – or maybe he called it a “spring cave-cleaning sale.” No, wait a minute! That’s preposterous. That had to be Og’s wife.
Autobahn. Lederhosen. Oktoberfest. Say “Germany” and that’s a bit of what comes to mind.
Time magazine had an interesting article in a recent July issue: 10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas.
A few weeks ago I surveyed the major contenders for Barack Obama’s running mate and concluded that he will likely select a popular Governor in a swing state.
Wired Northwest would like to remind everyone to please recycle your old computers and peripherals properly by bringing them to the recycling event on Saturday, July 19 between 9:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., held at City of Redmond Maintenance and Operation Center, 18120 NE 76th Street.
Leave it to our state’s major political parties to not know the meaning of “no.”
Today, most family-wage jobs in Washington require some form of post-secondary education or training.
By 2014, 77 percent of those jobs will require training or education after high school — in King and Snohomish counties the number jumps to 85 percent. And yet, Washington allows too many of its children to graduate from high school unprepared for post-secondary life.
