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Max Juedeman (he/him) is an aspiring journalist. He is a Running Start student who joined the ThunderWord in spring 2026, although he has previous experience at his high school newspaper. He enjoys writing all kinds of articles, but his favorite (as of now) is the Campus section due to Highline College’s wonderful sense of community. In his free time, he can be found spending time in nature, with friends, or writing poetry.
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Residents of southern King County are more connected than ever thanks to three new light rail stations in the area: Kent-Des Moines, Star Lake, and Federal Way Downtown. These stations are undeniably a community good, with the train being an affordable alternative to driving (Fares are free for youth 6-18 and three dollars per ride for adults 19-65 compared to Des Moines’ six dollar gallon of gas).
However, the ridership has some safety concerns, including a source who says that Kent-Des Moines Station, and others along the 1-Line route, may be compromised by meth usage.
When thinking about the concept of pets, coyotes and raccoons aren’t the first animals that come to mind. However, two intriguing cases of self-domestication may change that.
Self-domestication is an evolutionary survival tactic used by species who are losing their habitats to human urbanization. It is a process that scientists have characterized as reduced reactive aggression. This is the single trait that starts domestication. Reduced reactive aggression eventually leads to tameness or docility, seen in domesticated animals today like the house cat or dogs.
Nine years ago, Highline professor Susan Rich read a poem by Saddiq Dzukogi in the Toaist Journal of Poetry, sending her on a near-decade correspondence with the Nigerian author. Dzukogi celebrated his recent book release, “Bakandamiya: An Elegy” at last week’s “Poetry and Samosas” event as the key note speaker.
Once Professor Rich read that 2017 edition, she wrote a letter to the editor, exclaiming about how much she loved it. She then received Dzukogi’s email, which became a professional relationship between the two. Good things can happen unexpectedly. Dzukogi’s second book came out last last year, and he shared a range of new and older works of his as keynote speaker of the event.
Bus route 156 recently underwent a service change in late March, which altered the route’s last southbound stop from Highline College’s South Parking Lot to the newly constructed Kent-Des Moines Station.
The service change was done in an effort to connect the 1-Line Light Rail to more local bus routes, which would in turn connect the ridership of the rerouted buses to the train.