Karen Peterson was named executive editor in August 2008. She served as managing editor of The News Tribune for three years. She joined the paper in 2000 as suburban team leader. She has been a reporter and editor for newspapers in Hawaii and Indiana, and for an Army publication in Germany. During her husband’s first tour at Fort Lewis in the late 1980s, she wrote for The Lakewood Press and started the monthly Pierce County Parent. She is a board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors. She and her husband, a retired Army officer, have two sons and live in Gig Harbor. Email Karen
Managing editor Dale Phelps has been a senior editor at The News Tribune since 1998. Before coming to Tacoma, he was a copy editor and assistant sports editor for 19 years at The Kansas City Star. He's a past chairman of the Northwest Region of the Associated Press Sports Editors. He lives in University Place with his wife and two children.| Email Dale
David Montesino has been the Assistant Managing Editor/Visuals for The News Tribune since December 2005. Montesino oversees the operation of the photography, graphics, design and copydesk departments. He worked at The News Tribune as the presentation team leader in 2000. He has worked as a graphics editor for The New York Times, art director at the L.A. Times and managing editor of The Honolulu Advertiser. Born and raised in the Philippines, Montesino immigrated to the United States in 1984 and studied journalism at Humboldt State University. | Email David
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Among the top local stories in Wednesday's News Tribune:
• A 41-year-old county man is facing homicide and assault charges after a late-nate boat collision on Lake Tapps that left a Bonney Lake real estate agent dead.
• The Army has officially announced plans to deploy several Fort Lewis-based units to the Iraq war zone during the coming year.
• Global warming is being blamed for shrinking high-mountain meadows around Mount Rainier.
What agency was Dino Rossi referring to last week when he accused it of "sheer incompetence"?
How much money have South Sound candidates for Congress raised?
Was Barack Obama telling the truth when he said John McCain doesn't know how to send an e-mail?
Find the answers to these and other questions on our new elections page. Here's what you'll find there:
* TNT stories about county and state campaigns, and McClatchy stories about federal campaigns.
* Recent headlines from our Political Buzz blog.
* The "Truth O' Meter," a joint effort by Congressional Quarterly and the St. Petersburg Times to assess the truthfulness of claims by the presidential campaigns.
* A link to the TNT voter guide, which lists 90 candidates' responses to our questionnaires.
* MapLight.org's campaign finance totals for the presidential race and state congressional races.
We hope you'll find this informative.
We wrapped things up early tonight to allow for some needed press maintenance. That made it impossible to include our nightly report on the Puyallup Fair attendance.
But just for the record, Sunday's attendance was 66,278, up 2,276 from last year's 64,002 on this date. Overall attendance is now 222,842. That's up more than 5,000 from the 217,546 recorded last year.
Among the top local stories in Wednesday's News Tribune:
• They're baaack! The same bunch of debit card scam artists who victimized dozens of local folks over the Fourth of July holiday apparently struck again this Labor Day.
• Boeing workers are voting today on the company's latest contract offer and perhaps sanctioning a strike that could begin as soon as midnight Wednesday.
• The Catholic Church is mobilizing parishoners against the proposed assisted suicide initiative.
