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Franklin High School

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Abrehaile Haile: Prominent Member of Seattle East African Immigrant Community Faces Conspiracy Charge for Suspicious Wire Transfers

    Several dozen members of Seattle's large East African immigrant community packed a federal courtroom yesterday afternoon during a detention hearing for Abrehaile Haile, a Franklin High graduate accused of conspiring with two alleged Islamic extremists -- including one who was reportedly tortured at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Tacos El Asadero Is the Bus Of Your Dreams

    Jake VoronoI'm on a bus.​The Truck: Tacos El Asadero, 3517 Rainier Ave S, 760-9903. The Fare: Authentic Mexican The Stop: If Soul Plane was actually a bus parked in the Rainier Valley, it would be El Asadero. And every seat, a window seat. The old-school wonder is regally parked just a quar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Nicholas T. Chou, Ex-Franklin High School Volleyball Coach, Charged With Raping 15-Year-Old Player

    ​Prosecutors say that ex-Franklin High School girls' volleyball coach Nicholas T. Chou knew full well that having sex with a 15-year-old girl on the team would get him in deep trouble. That's why they say he told her to "keep it on the down-low."

  • Calendar

    April 27, 2011

    Langston Hughes African American Film Festival

    ​Prosecutors say that ex-Franklin High School girls' volleyball coach Nicholas T. Chou knew full well that having sex with a 15-year-old girl on the team would get him in deep trouble. That's why they say he told her to "keep it on the down-low."

  • News

    March 2, 2011

    Is Dawud Malik the Wrong Man?

    44 years after being sentenced for murders he says he didn't commit, freedom might come with a cost: ignoring his innocence.

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Video: Larry Gossett Describes Jail With Dawud Malik on the Day MLK Was Shot

    ​In this week's feature story "The Wrong Man," Larry Gossett, chairman of the King County Council, describes a very memorable day he spent in jail with Dawud Malik in 1968. Here's a short video clip of Gossett telling us how he relied on Malik -- then on death row after being convicted of two ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    "Get Schooled" Campaign to Help Kids Graduate Doesn't End With Tour Stop at Franklin High

    You've all heard the ominous statistics: Every 26 seconds a kid drops out of high school, 70% of eighth graders don't read at grade level, one-third of all U.S. students fail to graduate high school, most low-income college students never finish. So to combat the issue, artists like Ludacris, Keri ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    The John Report

    Has Almost Live's Keister been rewarded for his loyalty to Seattle?

  • Film

    September 1, 2010

    Wheedle's Groove: Recalling Seattle's Heyday of Funk and R&B

    Has Almost Live's Keister been rewarded for his loyalty to Seattle?

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    No Pedestrian Collisions at Rainier and MLK In the Last Five Years, Says SDOT

    ​Maybe it's because teenagers are faster, more adept jaywalkers. But despite all the attention that has been paid to the supposedly dangerous spot in front of Franklin High School where Rainier Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way meet, where a cop punched a girl in the face during a jaywalk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Franklin High Students Will Make Any Excuse Not to Cross the Street Safely

    ​Seattle Times photographer Cliff DesPeaux took a video camera to the intersection of Martin Luther King Way and Rainier Avenue, the site of this week's punch-heard-round-the-world to see if the incident had affected Franklin High School students' views on jaywalking. Guess what: They're teen ... More >>

  • Film

    May 26, 2010

    SIFF Week 2: Picks & Pans

    ​Seattle Times photographer Cliff DesPeaux took a video camera to the intersection of Martin Luther King Way and Rainier Avenue, the site of this week's punch-heard-round-the-world to see if the incident had affected Franklin High School students' views on jaywalking. Guess what: They're teen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    FBI Investigating Seattle Police Face-Stomp

    The stomp delivered by a gang unit officer to the face of a robbery suspect has already given Seattle police a black eye. Now it's responsible for a pain in their neck. According to King 5, a source within the Department of Justice has confirmed that Officer Shandy Cobane's boot to the face is no ... More >>

  • Music

    November 11, 2009

    Q&A: Kenny G on Wayne’s World, Weezer, and Barack Obama

    "I’m a sax player that’s trying to become a better sax player."

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Second Thoughts on Mayor Nickels Gun Ban

    On Wednesday we posted a little item on Mayor Nickels' gun ban and what the current mayoral candidates thought of it. Showing a picture of a gun-toting squirrel; calling gun-owners "nuts"; it was, to say the least, a little kneejerk. I don't own a gun. I've only fired a rifle a few times in my life ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    But We Are Already a Neighborhood School, Say Parents Concerned About the New Assignment Plan

    ​As people pour over the just-released maps for Seattle Public Schools' new assignment plan, they are voicing numerous concerns about the way some of the proposed boundaries split one particular neighborhood or the other. Take Mount Baker. At first glance, SW thought the leafy, lakeside enclav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Huzzah, Light Rail!

    When I was a little kid and my family would get stuck in traffic, I remember asking my parents, "Why don't we just build a subway? Those don't get stuck in traffic." I thought that would be the coolest. Little did I know that Seattle-area voters had already shot down such proposals on multiple occas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    The Future's on TV Tonight for Husky Hoop Fans

    Tacoma's Abdul Gaddy--the all-everything point guard expected to start for the Huskies next year--will be on TV tonight at the McDonald's All-American Game. (5 PM, ESPN). Franklin High star Peyton Siva, who's headed for Louisville, will be there also. The game is notoriously defense-free, so Gaddy s ... More >>

  • News

    April 1, 2009

    Students Pitch Budget Cuts to Gregoire

    Their message: Cut your friends, not our schools.

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    $9 Billion Deficit: Students Have an Answer

    Facing a $9 billion state budget deficit, Gov. Chris Gregoire and the legislature claim they're looking everywhere for cutbacks. But Alex Ng, Ricky Tran, Jennifer Truong, and Joann Ucol, students in Miriam Miller's 10th Grade Law & Society/History & Humanities classes at Franklin High School, think ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    The Jet Gives Props to Big Paper Daddy

    Former Franklin High star Jason Terry, whose UW career was cut short before it started due to the snaky recruiting wiles of retired Arizona coach "Midnight" Lute Olson, is having a career year with the Dallas Mavericks, averaging nearly 20 points per game while staying a neck ahead of Nate Robinson ... More >>

  • News

    February 4, 2009

    Turf Wars Are Fueling Seattle’s Gang Conflicts

    Where a kid lives is enough to get him shot.

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Get Well Soon, Andrew Moritz

    Hardcore historians of local hoops may know the name Andrew Moritz. He was a three-point specialist on Franklin High School's back-to-back championship teams in '94 and '95--the teams that featured current Dallas Maverick Jason Terry--and then a four-year player with the UW, walking on for three yea ... More >>

  • News

    January 7, 2009

    Bypass Fail

    No Child Left Behind was supposed to shut down or "restructure" failing schools. A Seattle middle school shows that's largely an empty threat.

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2008

    Black Panther Founder Coming to Seattle

    No Child Left Behind was supposed to shut down or "restructure" failing schools. A Seattle middle school shows that's largely an empty threat.

  • News

    June 6, 2007

    Soaring Over the City on Wings of Our Pedestrian Bridges

    No Child Left Behind was supposed to shut down or "restructure" failing schools. A Seattle middle school shows that's largely an empty threat.

  • News

    May 16, 2007

    Getting Your Freak On Just Got Harder

    Seattle high schools are laying the smack down on dirty dancing.

  • News

    November 1, 2006

    Greg Nickels' Quiet Storm

    The mayor's nightlife policies have led many to believe he wants the city's sidewalks to roll up after dinner. But a visit to a secret smooth-jazz hideaway in West Seattle shows just how wrong that notion is.

  • News

    August 2, 2006

    Aaron Dixon's Radical Past

    Seattle's original Black Panther, now running for U.S. Senate, conducts a tour of the streets where he and his brothers held forth against cops.

  • Arts

    February 1, 2006

    High Drama

    A play about small-town prejudice and murder has become a common teaching tool at area schools.

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    Xenotransplantation

    May 18-24, 2005

  • Music

    May 18, 2005

    May 18-24, 2005

    May 18-24, 2005

  • News

    February 11, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    "Michael Kinsley should stop being so arrogant about how wonderful his Microsoft-bought-and-paid-for site is. . . . "

  • News

    January 29, 2003

    Endangered Seattle

    Historic preservation? It's just so yesterday.

  • News

    August 7, 2002

    The New Math

    A state audit criticizes the Seattle School District's finances.

  • Arts

    November 14, 2001

    Outward bound

    Perfect pitch

  • News

    July 11, 2001

    News Clips— Omari's grand plan

    Perfect pitch

  • News

    May 16, 2001

    Tough guy rails

    City Attorney Mark Sidran kicks off his race for mayor by blasting light rail.

  • Music

    June 14, 2000

    Mad assets

    Source of Labor gladly share their wealth of knowledge—musical and otherwise.

  • News

    April 19, 2000

    Towed While Black

    Critics charge the city's towing law unfairly targets the poor and minorities.

  • News

    December 8, 1999

    Holiday Happenings

    This year's crop of seasonal selections

  • News

    December 1, 1999

    Holiday Happenings

    This year's crop of seasonal selections

  • News

    November 24, 1999

    Holiday Happenings

    This year's crop of seasonal selections

  • News

    March 17, 1999

    Once more, with feeling

    This year's crop of seasonal selections

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    In Stanford We Trust

    The charismatic chief brings vision and energy to Seattle's schools. But has he done what he claims? And will he see the job through?

  • News

    August 12, 1998

    The Happy Martyr

    Why Mark Sidran loves to be hated.

  • News

    February 25, 1998

    In Stanford We Trust

    The charismatic chief brings vision and energy to Seattle's schools. But has he done what he claims? And will he see the job through?

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