Posted Mon, Apr 9, 9:15 p.m.

The oral history I have heard is that South Center was also built on a wet lands and prime duck hunting land. To wit I was told by those who did it that every so often someone needed to go under the place and jack it up as it slowly ...

Posted Mon, Apr 2, 8:29 p.m.

Years ago I used to ride along side the railroad bed that goes from Auburn I think to some where over the mountains. They had fire lanes along side and various horse, walking, biking trails intersected with them and you would ride along the tracks and gab and jabber and ...

Posted Sat, Mar 3, 4:30 p.m.

I am not a christian but my observation is that the original ones must have been bad as they seem to all have been poor fisherman and wandering barefoot mendicants or disciples. When did rich become part of the christian way? There doesn't seem to be a wife among them ...

Posted Sat, Mar 3, 4:11 p.m.

I am an environmentalist I think but the fuss over the tower is silly. We have had one on Sun Top for years in the White Ranger District run by volunteers. I have volunteered several times and you have to be lucky to get a decient date and amount of ...

Posted Thu, Feb 2, 9:49 p.m.

I can't believe people don't think racism is alive and not necessarily well. Also as Mr Baker says there is no trickle down. You can make all the businesses you want but if no one wants it wont work. First comes a need and someone to perceive that need. You ...

Posted Thu, Feb 2, 9:30 p.m.

There are a lot of ways to keep the farms but the main one to me is tax the property for what it is being used for. Farming, wood lots, tree farms, fish ponds or what ever makes food and agriculture. Then the next real hurdle is finding some one ...

Posted Tue, Jan 17, 1:52 p.m.

I like being environment or clean like everybody but I understand that my local transfer station in Enumclaw is going to close the recycling part in February. What do I do with my glass, cardboard etc? I also occasionally remind myself of one of my favorite bumper stickers. "There is ...

Posted Tue, Jan 17, 1:48 p.m.

Well gee I may be on my lap top commenting but I have no idea how to find your phone number except look in a phone book. I suppose if I google and poke around I will find some sort of list but it is already in my phone book, ...

Posted Sun, Jan 15, 8:45 p.m.

My comment on various faiths is to stop fighting same sex marriage. I am not gay but relatives are and I do not think it is the churches business to control that. I agree that if the bible/koran tells them not they shouldn't but as an atheist I have the ...

Posted Sun, Dec 18, 1:49 p.m.

As i understand it the hundred grand the state pays gets 800 plus grand from the feds. Does anything Chase does for the food program get that return? Or do we just pay higher fees to Chase. I would leave Chase out. It is always the old "follow the money" ...

Posted Sun, Dec 11, 1:43 p.m.

My little local store will not be able to compete in the beer business or wine due to volume compared to the Safeway and new Fred Myers a short distance down the road. They buy in such volume that he can't come close to what they already sell pop for ...

Posted Mon, Dec 5, 9:30 a.m.

I realize there were millions of people living here when Columbus showed up but it seems there couldn't have be all that many 14,000 years ago. Why didn't we have inbreeding problems like they worry about in small animal populations now? There was apparently a period around a 150,000 years ...

Posted Mon, Nov 28, 7:43 p.m.

I support the occupy movement and what they are doing. I must admit my real interest is in some kind of control over "Wall Street" and the way they can take chances for big wins that when they go wrong affect the 99% and the "Street" really does not get ...

Posted Sun, Nov 27, 11:37 a.m.

On the subject of entitlements the two core ones are not entitlements despite the word being used. If you pay for SS for 50 plus years like have and if you pay for an annuity from Mutual of New York for 30 years like I have which one is an ...

Posted Tue, Jan 18, 9:56 p.m.

In a light thought - it sounds like Fox TV etc was alive and well in the 1850s'. I enjoyed the article and all the letters to keep my mind in line about how far we haven't come yet. I still wait for the Starship Enterprise world. Or at least ...

Posted Tue, Nov 23, 4:47 p.m.

Reading a subversive act. Bring it on! That is my style of subversion. My folks have been gone a while which says something about my age but it occurs to me I owe them thanks for never telling me I couldn't read something (including the cheerios' box) The reading in ...

Posted Sun, Nov 21, 9:29 p.m.

Well the government may cause a little confusion here and there but at least you can come closer to trusting it. In my mind you can't trust corporat/capitalist america to not short change you on safety rules/bank honesty/the little extras in a product to make it safe. Cars anyone before ...

Posted Wed, Nov 17, 9:28 p.m.

Sounds cool. I am not rich but I would even throw in a few bucks. Come on Gates and ol' Ballmer you too. It is your home. I also had the benefit of VA years ago. Almost the same idea and I wouldn't be where I am today with out ...

Posted Wed, Nov 17, 9:20 p.m.

I rather like my government especially at about midnight when they are running up and down the road plowing snow and sanding and i am asleep. I like them when they are fixing my roads and patrolling the streets. Like them when I had a college to attend and thought ...

Posted Sun, Nov 7, 1:53 p.m.

Having watched a morning of talking heads let me say that ol' Mitch is a lier. They are not talking about raising tax's on small business(his word) but on personal income. If he ever had a job or small business (I do) he would know that personal income is what ...

Posted Thu, Oct 28, 4:17 p.m.

It can happen. I don't really want to change my vote on the liquor stores but it sounds like they should stay to me. But than I was a bit "amused" to find it probably wasn't MADD pushing for it but the brewery owners so they wouldn't loose any shelf ...

Posted Tue, Oct 26, 7:34 p.m.

I would bet that if you could get an honest audit of corporations (Boeings anyone?) you would see as much wast percentage wise as you do in the state budget. Maybe not people ripping it off like they do in Medicare but still wasted money. Other then that Texas I ...

Posted Mon, Oct 25, 1:11 p.m.

How come I have to pay for my fuel and the electric guys are getting a free trip. Actually I know. Thats just the way things are. But I bet in 1920 the farmer had to feed his horse and the fella with new jalopy had to pay for his ...

Posted Fri, Oct 8, 9:23 p.m.

I like that Knute. I too have wondered away to at best non practicing philosophical Buddhist. But I also like what RevSandy said at the end. If the church made you gentle and gave a good out look on life maybe they did a good job. Hopefully I got that ...

Posted Mon, Aug 30, 9:42 p.m.

If Molly needs a place to hide or hole up give me a jingle. Reading several autobiographies (one being Ayaan Hirsi Ali's) tells me that the fatwa can go on for ever unless some body more powerful cancels it so the potential threat is life time.

Posted Mon, Jul 26, 9:41 p.m.

Humm That may be a different worm but it doesn't look any bigger than some I see in Ravensdale or hear about down south where they go around thumping the ground so they crawl out for the fisherman to use. But what the heck if it keeps us from desecrating(words ...

Posted Sun, May 2, 9:21 p.m.

I am late in reading this article but first we must agree there is a god, or God. If there is not than the question is moot and I think that is the situation. So when we become civilized someday we must figure out a real reason to be good. ...

Posted Mon, Nov 23, 9:18 p.m.

I think I will move to Germany. I have never bought a book on line. I buy almost all of my books at my favorite new and used book store unless I am traveling and see a book I can't live with out and that happens every trip. I love ...

Posted Mon, Nov 23, 9:04 p.m.

It amazes me that big business and capitalist in general would rather let the country/state go down the tube and do a lousy job of infrastructure, education and helping people in need, than pay tax's of any kind. Its not like they are special or can pop off to Mars ...

Posted Mon, Nov 23, 8:47 p.m.

I was worried that the article might be a serious try at Wall Street doing gods work. Who ever or which ever he/she is. What a joke. Wall Street that is. Otherwise I thought the article was trying to hard even though I vaguely know some of the texts he ...

Posted Mon, Nov 2, 8:52 p.m.

That was a good story and I am glad it was "true". It was wasn't it? I am glad that it worked out well and it was a big mistake and you are both ok. But like other letters you must accept that one of you were going to be ...

Posted Mon, Nov 2, 8:26 p.m.

Interesting. I have never been in a situation to belong to a union but I do support the union and think Boeing is making a major dumb business decision. Of course we wont know for a number of years how well it works. What they need to take to NC ...

Posted Tue, Oct 20, 9:37 p.m.

I like this idea but i think or understand we already have a TDR program in King County. I have been told of development rights in SE KC being bought by developers in the Kent Valley area so they could build higher bldg. or some such and several places in ...

Posted Wed, Aug 26, 10:28 p.m.

I liked this article and will save it to remind my self of some organized facts when some on hits me with all the Fox etc news paranoia. As a self employed small business I sure wish I had something besides $10,000 a year insurance bill every year the last ...

Posted Fri, Aug 14, 8:14 p.m.

If Cheney keeps this up we are all going to look back at Bush and think he was a pretty nice guy unless he of course starts acting like Cheney when Bush writes his book.

Posted Fri, Aug 14, 8:07 p.m.

If your lawyer or CPA hasn't talked to you about end of life type wills you should fire one or both. To get to the big hospital and be in something like ICU with out having planned ahead is the old ostrich thing with your head some where other than ...

Posted Sat, Jun 13, 7:56 p.m.

Knute I love Luddites too. But i must confess I am on cable so I am still watching. (I see my apple spell chk can't spell Luddites) Talk about luddites.

Posted Sat, Jun 13, 7:50 p.m.

What's this thing about weight loss? If that is not a chubby face on Knutes pic I don't know what is. Just because he hides behind hair doesn't mean he is skinny or exercising. Come on Knute take a hike!

Posted Wed, Jun 10, 8:48 p.m.

Come on. GM and Chrysler make more vehicles in more countries than just the US and we seem to be doing all the bailing out while Mexico, Canada, China etc aren't putting up a dime the we hear about. I know the news is biased so maybe they are and ...

Posted Wed, Jun 10, 8:23 p.m.

I like the buck idea too as all I ever get is plain coffee with cream when I occasionally go there to meet friends. It was about a $1.67 last time and that is still way more than mine at home which is my lazy preference. So lets hire Fitske ...

Posted Wed, Jun 10, 8:14 p.m.

Boy what grumpy bunch of letter writers out there. Is the economy that bad that you are all unhappy about Jean and Crosscut and probably everything else. Or is Seattle just that unhappy of a city. Come on folks the sun has been out for weeks. Be happy!

Posted Wed, Jun 10, 7:54 p.m.

I kind of go along with Knute and one other, Rob K. But I feel it is sort of a responsibility to keep track of the propaganda the gov wants me to see and for some reason I like 30 min of local and 30 min of national then I ...

Posted Sun, May 10, 9:14 p.m.

Amazing. 68 million dollars just for the top 600 employes and you have not even bought a bucket of sand yet. That blows me away a I have never earned close to 100,000 in a year in my life and never will and deal with life and death every day ...

Posted Sun, May 10, 9:03 p.m.

I of course do not live there and my library wont move but the key thing I see is Constantine who ever he or she is getting something passed with out following regular community planing rules. That would be the main problem with our system that some one is always ...

Posted Sun, May 10, 8:48 p.m.

As just a normal citizen who doesn't get in to the details Van Dyke needs to know that most of us see Obama as reaching across the isle to the republicans only to be mostly rebuffed. I see it as the republicans not participating and the mistake is in my ...

Posted Sun, Mar 15, 2:16 p.m.

It didn't all go poof. I jut saw my first Bentley in rural King Co a week or so ago. Somebody around here got some of it. It's like Bernie Madoff. He doesn't have 50 billion of stuff yet it all seems to be gone and I have yet to ...

Posted Sun, Mar 8, 12:21 p.m.

Well gee Van Dyk its March and I have a couple of inch's of snow on the ground plus my 2nd white Christmas in my life. As i reminded my uncle a few weeks ago who was mad at Obama already it took him at least 6 weeks to just ...

Posted Wed, Mar 4, 10:22 a.m.

It seems to me that the Republicans and probably every body else forgets that with out government of any size we do not get all the things we depend on. Roads to me is the most obvious big one. Out where I live there are a lot of unpaved side ...

Posted Tue, Feb 10, 10:11 p.m.

Well darn! I am doing my best to be a non believer/athiest/Buddist. Guess maybe I will have to move to Vermont except it is to cold to long there. I like the rain and sun mix here in the NW corner.

Posted Thu, Feb 5, 7:52 p.m.

What gives? Obama has put out a plan but all the Republicans are doing is saying over and over it "is a spending plan not a stimulus plan" Well it may well be but I have yet to see a solid suggestion from a republican on TV, Fox, on the ...

Posted Mon, Feb 2, 9:18 p.m.

I would support unions lowering wages if Boeings, Chase etc etc would do the same. Why should gov employees not be paid a fair wage. What ever that is. I actually think we should all work part time and spend more time at home with kids, reading, walking etc etc ...

Posted Tue, Dec 30, 8:49 p.m.

Bush had a Republican congress given to him by good ol' Gingrich during the Clinton years. I suppose you could say Bush at least kept his britches on which both Gingrich and Clinton didn't.

Posted Mon, Dec 29, 6:38 p.m.

I don't understand the concern over weather problems this last two weeks in Seattle. It will go away. Walk to work. Catch a bus. Stay home and shovel snow and get in shape. You could be living in 1900. No cars, no busses, and everybody lived in Seattle and worked ...

Posted Wed, Dec 24, 3:36 p.m.

Excuse me? I thought Puget Sound was salty already. More wont hurt will it? A case could be made for Lake Washington I suppose but the year around pollution is is probably as bad. I know where I live out in the "country" the roads are bad and worse on ...

Posted Tue, Dec 23, 9:44 p.m.

I can't spell my way out of a box with out spell check and I would like one for correct grammar but I must admit I never passed a spelling test my senior year and for 50 years it has shown(?). I enjoy books like the Panda eats, shoots, and ...

Posted Tue, Dec 23, 9:25 p.m.

I agree on on not being rushed into anything. We were I am sure on Wall Street bailouts. A side comment on dam question of removing the dams for the sake of the salmon. I recently read an article in the Capital Press (an admitted conservative ag weekly) on a ...

Posted Thu, Nov 20, 8:30 p.m.

Go cougs

Posted Sat, Nov 15, 7:41 p.m.

Crosscut Editor I reviewed my and other letters and they seem to say inappropriate in the posted line above the letters. What does that mean? You disagree with living with in your means or income? If you only get paid half your wages this month are you going to tell ...

Posted Sat, Nov 15, 7:34 p.m.

As a small business person that has a much slower than normal business the last few weeks I might also suggest what I am doing. Earn less, spend less, and wait (hopefully) for better times. In other words if the unions and employees and car companies had any brains they ...

Posted Sat, Oct 18, 9:20 p.m.

Don't count Obama in to sollid yet. There is a "Brady" or "Bradley" effect. I understand 10 years or so ago a black man was running for California gov and was ahead by 10% or more and lost because people didn't give honest answers to polsters about who they were ...

Posted Sun, Oct 12, 8:58 p.m.

Mossbacks livable citys. The only problem I see besides the fact that I live in the mountains is the frequent rain/drizzle in our area for outside cafes. But my daughter used to live on Capital Blvd in Sacremento and you could walk out of her apartment and have about 8 ...

Posted Tue, Sep 30, 8 p.m.

bailout: Editor I have listened to all the stuff on the bail out and I think one needed point is a malpractice insurance or liability insurance for all Wall Street outfits. I have one as a veterinarian, doctors have it, pilots have it and many business's and individuals have it. ...

Posted Thu, Sep 25, 8:09 p.m.

Death when done: I have always supported a righ to die law or philosophy. I would not want a law ever made to punish the person who choses the option of assisted death. But I think if at all possible the person should just do it on their own with ...

Posted Mon, Sep 15, 7:56 p.m.

Dear Knute Berger: My history is poor but here goes. War of 1812. Invade Mexico/Texas/Allamo. Tippy Canoe and Tyler too. Civil War. Indian Wars. Oh ya don't forget what ever war got us California. Spanish Amaerican war. WW1. Invage Nicarouga? for the banna barrons. WW2. Korea. Papa docs home land. ...

Posted Sun, Aug 31, 3:30 p.m.

Land use: I purchased a couple acres 20+ years ago that was all trees. I have put a small home on it(less than 800 sf) and put a horse paddock in the trees on less than half. It is sure a compromise. Not the best for a horse or the ...

Posted Wed, Aug 6, 9:09 p.m.

mossback debt: It blows me away how we can go from a realatively ballanced budget to 2.5 bil in debt in 6 months. I couldn't do that ratio with my budget if I tried unless I just quit work(collecting taxs). Something is wrong here. I am not denying a debt/income ...

Posted Mon, Apr 7, 10:49 a.m.

Bruce Gardners choice: I have voted for this before and will again if given the chance. I do not encourage the death choice but if a person has thought it out and has enough pain or loss of life it should be their choice and not totaly stoped by the ...