Ken Schram

Opinion Schram: Costs shouldn't factor in deciding mentally-ill inmates' fates (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: May 21, 2012 at 11:56 AM PDT Last Updated: May 21, 2012 at 7:02 PM PDT

Next month, a court will decide if Zamora should continue as a patient at Western State Hospital or be sent off to prison where he would begin serving four life sentences.

Opinion Schrammie: Pasco bent on silencing the ice cream truck (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: May 16, 2012 at 10:34 AM PDT Last Updated: May 17, 2012 at 1:22 AM PDT

In Pasco, the sounds associated with summer are under attack by city officials.

Opinion Ken Schram: Stealing dignity from the poor (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: May 14, 2012 at 10:16 AM PDT Last Updated: May 14, 2012 at 7:16 PM PDT

When the poor try to use coin instead of flashing a credit or debit card, a merchant will all too often just kick the low-income customer to the curb.

Opinion Schram: Obama dilutes his endorsement of gay marriage (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: May 11, 2012 at 10:25 AM PDT Last Updated: May 11, 2012 at 8:20 PM PDT

The president's personal support of gay marriage does nothing to change the laws in more than three dozen states that stipulate marriage is a union between a man and a woman.

Opinion Schrammie: $6 million for an animal overpass? (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: May 9, 2012 at 10:22 AM PDT Last Updated: May 9, 2012 at 7:03 PM PDT

Cute, little furry creatures of the forest are not very adept at dodging SUV’s and the like, so we’re getting a multi-million dollar project to try and protect them.

Opinion Ken Schram: With business slow, border patrol agents pick up the pace (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: May 7, 2012 at 10:46 AM PDT Last Updated: May 7, 2012 at 7:56 PM PDT

Seems in the patrol's zealousness to justify the number of border patrol agents assigned to the area, people over on the peninsula may be getting pulled over and questioned without any reasonable suspicion.

Opinion Photos: Schram throws a pie in Carlson's face! (Photo Gallery)

Published: May 4, 2012 at 1:09 PM PDT

Opinion Schram: What do anarchists do when not out causing chaos? (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: May 4, 2012 at 10:50 AM PDT Last Updated: May 4, 2012 at 7:53 PM PDT

I’ve been wondering: What do anarchists do when they're not out practicing anarchy?

Opinion Schrammie: Does the state really need to be buying SUVs? (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: May 2, 2012 at 10:55 AM PDT Last Updated: May 2, 2012 at 6:51 PM PDT

Joyce Turner is the latest in a line of directors likely loved by SUV dealers.

Opinion Ken Schram: Kudos to those investigating the Keller case (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: Apr 30, 2012 at 10:41 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 30, 2012 at 6:50 PM PDT

There's been a rash of criticism surrounding area law enforcement over the past few years and they don't often get credit when credit is due.

Opinion Ken Schram: Judge's compassion totally misplaced (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: Apr 23, 2012 at 10:38 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 23, 2012 at 6:52 PM PDT

That's the kindest thing I can say about a Yakima County Superior Court Judge's decision to allow an accused killer out of jail.

Opinion Viewers to Ken: Archbishop shouldn't get 'Schrammie' (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: Apr 20, 2012 at 10:31 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 20, 2012 at 6:52 PM PDT

There was some strong objection to my giving Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain this week's “Schrammie.”

Opinion Schram: Dashcam ruling on SPD videos makes no sense (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: Apr 16, 2012 at 10:29 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 16, 2012 at 7:12 PM PDT

I’d like to know how a public servant, on a public street, can end up with a private video.

Opinion Schrammie: Archbishop Sartain politicizing the Catholic faith (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: Apr 18, 2012 at 11:45 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 18, 2012 at 6:48 PM PDT

Politicizing the Catholic faith may seem suitable to Bishop Sartain, but the divisive and hurtful message he wants to package seems counterproductive in attempting to answer the question of what would Jesus do.

Opinion Schrammie: State senator on disability wants to cut option for others (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: Apr 11, 2012 at 10:32 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 11, 2012 at 10:21 PM PDT

In State Sen. Joe Zarelli's mind, the monthly disability check he banks is different from the disability checks he wants to take away from others.

Opinion Schram: Standardized tests: Expensive and pointless? (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: Apr 9, 2012 at 10:57 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 9, 2012 at 6:48 PM PDT

That's the opinion of some parents in the Snohomish School District are standing behind in respect to the Measurements of Students’ Progress tests.

Opinion Ken Schram: I'm with the duck hunters on this 'problem'

By Ken Schram Published: Apr 6, 2012 at 10:35 AM PDT

With the waters around Olympia providing some of the best duck hunting in the area, a Thurston County commission wants to make it illegal to fire a gun on county shores.

Opinion The Schrammie: A library mess (Video)

By Ken Schram Published: Apr 4, 2012 at 9:23 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 4, 2012 at 7:54 PM PDT

One city is trying to keep its citizens out of the loop while another city is trying to drag them too far in.

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