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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Posted by David Seago @ 06:12:44 pm
That's gist of a barb Tacoma City Councilman Mike Lonergan fired at Pierce County Councilmen Calvin Goings and Tim Farrell this afternoon. Remember that Lonergan is running as an independent for county executive. So is Democrat Goings. A peeved Lonergan asked Susan Long, the County Council staff attorney, about the legality of a county-paid mailer Goings and Farrell sent advertising an ethics forum they held Wednesday in Tacoma. The pair are pushing a proposed county ethics code that has twice been postponed. The County Council may vote on it Tuesday. Here's Lonergan's statement on the reply from Long:
In a letter to the editor published Thursday, former county auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek took a similar shot at the council duo over the mailing. She's allied with current Auditor Pat McCarthy, another Democrat running for county executive. My own view: Yep, the mailer was on the cheesy side, especially given the way it was targeted. You'd think Goings and Farrell would have targeted Republican Councilman Roger Bush's Graham-area district, since he's the one who has raised the most objections to their proposal. And $12,000 could pay for a lot of senior-center hot meals. We'll have an editorial writer at the County Council's Monday study session. At the 9 a.m. meeting in council chambers, Long is scheduled to review all of the potential ethics code amendments and discuss their interpretation. Perhaps the new code should include some guidelines on what constitutes a legitimate "informational" mailing at taxpayer expense. But Goings and Farrell are right in calling for stronger ethics rules, including registration and reporting requirements for paid lobbyists.
Categories: Taking notice
Posted by Kim Bradford @ 11:16:37 am
Today on the opinion page, we knocked legislation that would unionize day care center workers. The bill would essentially help the state's largest union enroll 10,000 new members and enlist the state in collecting union dues. In turn, the union would have more money to spend on election campaigns, presumably Democrats'. If it weren't all legal, it would look a lot like money-laundering. But I digress. The reason for this post is to point out that the day care bill isn't the worst of the Legislature's proposed union giveaways. A bill now in the Senate would also unionize foster parents. Parenting is hard work indeed, but does a union have a place negotiating the terms of what essentially is substitute parenthood? Don't we think more of foster parents' contributions to the lives of beleaguered kids than to label them state workers? With some foster parents beginning to voice those concerns, the Senate Human Services and Corrections committee last night stripped the bill of the bargaining component. But the legislation could still be in play. Here's an argument for letting the bill die from a foster parent who just happens to also be vice president for research at the conservative Washington Policy Center.
Categories: Editorial outtakes
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Posted by David Seago @ 05:35:28 am
On his Washington Policy Center blog, Jason Mercier alerts us to a surprise move in the state Senate that would esssentially be a slap at state Auditor Brian Sonntag for his handling of performance audits. Senate Bill 6450, earlier thought to be dead this session, was revived under a suspension of rules. It would force the auditor to reimburse school districts for costs associated with performance audits. As Mercier notes, Sonntag strongly objects and contends the audits save local governments far more than they cost. Even though Sonntag is a Democrat, many Democratic legislators do seem itching to yank his chain. It could be they resent the way Sonntag positions himself as a champion of good government by promoting performance audits. Sonntag has in the past considered running for governor. They may resent the way he appears regularly on conservative radio talk shows and has allied himself with Tim Eyman, whose successful Initiative 900 gave the auditor the authority and funding for performance audits. Another possible factor I haven't quite nailed down: I heard behind-the-scenes complaints that Sonntag exceeded his mandate and delved into policy matters when a performance audit of the state Department of Transportation urged a greater emphasis on "congestion relief." That gripe might have some merit, but I haven't the chance to explore it. Done properly, however, performance audits are a good idea. It was a state PA that blew the lid off shady practices at the Port of Seattle. Comments, anyone?
Categories: Taking notice
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 05:20:37 pm
The teacher's union president might not be the first person who'd come to mind if you were looking for someone to bargain with the union on behalf of the public. So we asked Interim Superintendent Art Jarvis why he appointed Gayle Elijah – the president of the Tacoma Education Association – as a director of human resources for the Tacoma School District. Why also asked him how her classroom work qualified her for the specialized administrative work of human resources. Jarvis had a reasonable answer for both questions. "Her integrity is respected by everybody within the district administration and within teacher ranks, " he said. "I would not be concerned about that whatsoever. She is a very skilled and knowledgeable professional." As for her qualifications, Jarvis said that Elijah is just about to graduate from a three-year human resources leadership program at Western Washington University. On the union connection, I'm reminded of Terry Bergeson, the state superintendent of public instruction. She was president of the Washington Education Association before she ran for the state's top education job. Since then, she's has had no problem crossing her old union over the WASL and other issues. Chiming in: Old hands in the Tacoma School District will recall that a couple decades ago the district hired the teacher union's lead negotiator, Dan Barkley, to become the district's contract negotiator. Barkley, long since retired, was highly respected on both sides and was successful in introducing a "collaborative bargaining" approach to teacher contract talks.
Categories: Taking notice
Posted by David Seago @ 05:09:14 pm
Here's one way lawmakers in Olympia contrive to do public business out of the public eye. This appeared in a roundup of legislative action on education-related issues sent to school directors around the state.
Categories: Taking notice
Posted by David Seago @ 04:34:35 pm
Editorial lineup for Friday: 1. A revised cost estimate bolsters hopes for restoring Tacoma's historic Murray Morgan Bridge, but it's too soon to celebrate. There's a lot more we need to know before restoration can be deemed feasible. 2. Democratic legislators may do a favor for a politically powerful labor union by allowing day care workers collective bargaining rights. Our view: Don't. Want to sit in on our daily 9 a.m. editorial board meeting? Email cheryl.tucker@thenewstribune.com to make a date.
Categories: What's coming
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Posted by David Seago @ 04:04:06 pm
Pierce County's new domestic partner benefits might be an issue in county executive and council races this fall – if opponents can get a referendum on the ballot. Tacoma City Councilman Mike Lonergan and Pierce County Councilman Roger Bush have aligned themselves with an effort to repeal the domestic partner benefits the County Council approved in December. Lonergan is running as an independent for county executive. Bush was one of three County Council Republicans who voted against the benefits. The measure passed when Republican Councilman Shawn Bunney, who is also running for county executive, sided with three council Democrats. And one of those Democrats is Calvin Goings, who is yet another candidate for executive. Pierce County Auditor Pat McCarthy is also in the race; as a staunch Democrat, she would presumably be considered a supporter of domestic partner benefits. A conservative group called CornerStone Foundation of Washington held a fundraising dinner at the Tacoma Elks Club earlier this month to back a referendum forcing a public vote on the benefits issue. The event speaker was Ken Hutcherson, a Kirkland pastor and former Seahawks player who attracted wide attention in 2005 for threatening to organize a national boycott against Microsoft if it supported state legislation banning discrimination against gays. The invitation lists the repeal measure as Referendum 20076-15. I'm awaiting word from the auditor's office on who filed it and how many signatures are needed to get it on the ballot. This might complicate the executive's race for both Bunney and Lonergan. Republicans who feel strongly about the benefits issue might gravitate toward Lonergan. But Lonergan could blur his independent stance if he lines up with Republicans on a contentious social issue. Update: Lonergan comments
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Posted by David Seago @ 02:09:42 pm
Maybe it's ironic that we're bringing syndicated columnist George Will back to our pages just when another sesquipedalian conservative wordsmith, William F. Buckley Jr., has just written his life's final chapter.  But connoisseurs of elegant (if often arch) prose will be pleased to find Will's column in the opinion section Friday. While there's no doubting Will's brilliance, we had tired of his highbrow Oxfordian tone last year and decided to try younger conservative Jonah Goldberg instead. Goldberg, in my view, turned out to be a bigger step down from Will than I had expected. His level of reasoning just doesn't hold a candle to Will's, and Will, to my mind, has shown an impressive streak of intellectual independence in the past year. (I've been reading his columns on the Washington Post Web site.) With one of the most fascinating presidential contests in years ahead of us, I just felt it would be a mistake to deprive our readers of Will's acute perspective at this time. As always, I welcome reader comment on this decision.
Categories: How we work
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 06:32:00 pm
On Monday, we published an "editorial notebook" item in which I recounted my miserable hour-and-a-half wait to get my driver's license. (The same item had appeared earlier in this blog.) Part of the frustration was the fact that half the staff at the counter left during the lunch hour, with more than 50 people waiting to get their licenses. On Tuesday, the director of the Department of Licensing called me to personally apologize. "I felt horrible when I saw that," said Liz Luce. "It's not a perfect system, and sometimes we fall short of good customer service. I do want you to know we are trying to do things to make it better."
Categories: Taking notice
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Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 05:59:40 pm
Ever listen to religious radio stations? Noticed how many of the preachers have Deep South accents? (Thuh BAH-bull SAY-yuz ...") It's curious how well that drawl sells above the Mason-Dixon Line. (A Texas twang works, too.) Something about those country-fried Southern vowels reassures Americans all over that the owner of the accent shares their values and intends to keep the world on a steady course. What's this got to do with anything? Drawls and twangs happen to be the key to my theory of presidential politics: Rock, Paper, Scissors. It's ridiculously oversimplified. First toss out all the sophisticated predictors commonly cited by political scientists: campaign strategies, money, organization, how many Americans think the country's headed in the right direction, unemployment, inflation, foreign menaces, etc. With Rock, Paper, Scissors, only two things count: political ideology and Southern accent. Here's how it works:
Categories: Taking notice
Posted by Cheryl Tucker @ 02:57:33 pm
We get a lot of excellent letters to the editor. And then we get ones like this, from a writer in Buckley. I am copying it verbatim, with all the emphasis and mistakes (including not understanding that Obama is the candidate's last name, not his first).
The writer says that the other candidates' names are mentioned. Anyone know off the top of your head what John McCain's middle name is? Mike Huckabee's? (See answers at bottom). And is this the last person in America to learn that Obama's middle name is Hussein?
Posted by Cheryl Tucker @ 01:53:39 pm
The failure of levies last month in the Yelm and North Thurston school districts, despite the new 50 percent requirement, shows that school-funding approvals can’t be taken for granted. We endorse the March 11 local school requests, including the Franklin Pierce construction bond issue. Legislators shouldn’t wipe out the funding for the UW study of the effectiveness of the controversial Prometa protocol in Pierce County drug court program. A rigorous, objective evaluation would be a public service. About our editorials:
Categories: What's coming
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Posted by Cheryl Tucker @ 05:38:31 am
The environmental group Sierra Club has exhorted its members to flood the nation's newspapers with letters that purport to reveal John McCain's record of dodging votes on issues it considers important. Unfortunately, they're all submitting the same letter. It's astounding to us that people will actually sign their name to such an obviously canned letter and try to pass it off as their own. Anyway, here's the letter we've received from several people. Needless to say, it won't get in the printed edition – under anyone's name.
Categories: Taking notice
Monday, February 25th, 2008
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 05:55:19 pm
Hunter George's "Traffic Q&A" on school zone signs touched some nerves around here. Like the guy who asked about the 20 mph signs, we're confused about why the signs are so confusing: some with flashing lights, some without; some near schools, some not, and so on. And: Do we breed contempt for the law by having so many of these zones and so little enforcement of them? As anyone who attempts to obey the limits can tell you, the biggest problem is the people behind you. Some get infuriated that you're crawling at 20 mph when they want to blast through the school zone at 40 or more. Cheryl Dell, our publisher, had a run-in with a particularly scary guy last fall.
Categories: Taking notice
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Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 09:27:36 am
1. We can’t quarrel with the Legislature’s decision to earmark $2 billion for the 520 bridge, but the span must be built large enough to handle future growth, not strangled at the behest of the well-heeled Montlake neighborhood. It’s a shame that projects like Cross-Base and Highway 167 are being deferred, but that was a decision voters made when they rejected Roads & Transit in November. 2. The Department of Licensing has created a unique hell for Washingtonians trying to renew their drivers licenses. (From Inside the Editorial Page blog) About our editorials:
Categories: Editorial cartoons
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 01:52:04 am
Well, no, smoking isn't actually healthy. But the American College of Physicians – an association of internists – recently decided that smoking marijuana is therapeutic, right? Not quite. We need to draw a crucial distinction here. What a lot of people don't get – and other people try to obscure – is that the real argument about medical marijuana is about delivery, not content. One guy who apparently doesn't get it is the writer of the Los Angeles Times story on the College's position paper. The story dwelt on marijuana advocates' glee that the ACP had joined their cause. It accurately noted the ACP's (accurate) conclusion that some of the chemicals in cannabis had medicinal value. But it left out a small detail: The College pointedly rejected the smoking of marijuana. Take this excerpt, for example:
Categories: Taking notice
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Posted by Kim Bradford @ 10:27:00 am
Here's what to expect from us this weekend: Saturday: Sunday: The House budget is an irresponsible response to news that state revenues are declining nearly half a billion dollars. Monday: About our editorials:
Categories: What's coming
Posted by Kim Bradford @ 09:15:04 am
Watching the action in Olympia this year, I have the sense that lawmakers aren’t just writing checks state government can’t cash, they are post-dating them too. They've got their paid family leave. The Legislature promised to deliver benefits by October 2009 but has neglected to identify a funding source two years in a row. Then there’s all-day kindergarten. Lawmakers decided last year to phase it in for all kids. Lately the House has been considering And there are the tax rebates we wrote about today. That legislation has an out clause that will suspend the rebates if the state hits a rough revenue patch. If the state hits a rough revenue patch? Who are they fooling? When the Legislature returns to Olympia next January, it’s not likely to find any extra money lying around with the projected budget shortfall standing at $2.4 billion.
Categories: Who's visiting, Taking notice
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 12:31:39 pm
I thought I was being crafty, getting my new driver's license on the morning of a vacation weekday – Tuesday – so I could escape the usual weekend misery at the licensing office. Dream on, Chester. There is no escape from the unique hell the state Department of Licensing has created for its customers. Abandon hope, all ye who enter one of its offices. You know the drill: You secure your place in line by taking a number from a machine. I sauntered into the storefront office on 27th Street West in Tacoma with naive optimism and pulled No. 148. Your number is your destiny. Then I looked at the signs over the service counter and discovered that the highest number then being served was No. 104. Forty-four people were in front of me. But at least the place was well-staffed, I thought: Five DOL employees were sitting at the long counter handling the renewals, etc. Shouldn't take too long. Silly, silly me. There were at least 50 people sitting in the hard chairs, staring dully at those signs. Their eyes were dead. They had seen the glacial pace at which the numbers were progressing. Half the people at the counters seemed engaged in what the Tacoma-born poet Richard Brautigan called an ICT – an infinitely complex transaction.
Categories: Taking notice
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Posted by Cheryl Tucker @ 11:14:39 am
Charles Allyn of Tacoma, one of our semi-regular letter writers, sent along this photo of last night's eclipse.  He writes:
Categories: Taking notice
Posted by Kim Bradford @ 09:58:55 am
Here is what we're planning for Friday: Senate Democrats, on the eve of a $2.4 billion budget shortfall, have passed a plan to give $60 million to low-income families who qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit. State government can best help the working poor by ensuring that the safety net stays strong, not by handing out $150 checks. Beyond paying for the damage done, Evergreen State College bears a heavy responsibility for ensuring that nothing like last week’s postconcert riot happens again. About our editorials:
Categories: What's coming
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Posted by Kim Bradford @ 11:03:30 am
Here's what we're planning for Thursday's page: Regular Washington voters finally got their chance to weigh in on the presidential race, handing McCain a solid win and an apparently slimmer defeat to Clinton. Party leaders hailed record attendance at party caucuses earlier this month, but they still couldn't top turnout for an almost meaningless primary. Any plan for cleaning up Puget Sound must address what the state Dept. of Ecology calls the No. 1 polluter: stormwater runoff. Unfortunately, that will probably be the hardest nut to crack. About our editorials:
Categories: What's coming
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Posted by Kim Bradford @ 10:19:02 am
Our Wednesday editorials: The Pierce County jail’s staffing problems aren’t just driving overtime costs sky-high — they are also hobbling its ability to provide health care services to inmates. Don’t cue the band yet over news that Fidel Castro’s long reign is over. His brother and handpicked successor has raised hopes for modest economic reforms, but isn’t the leader the country needs for meaningful democratic change. About our editorials:
Categories: What's coming
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Posted by Kim Bradford @ 09:14:21 pm
Today's editorial raised a big concern about paid family leave – namely that Democrats have not figured out how to pay for the new benefit. The program might face several other snags, even if it does get the money it needs. Republicans on a task force that spent the interim studying how to get the benefit out to new parents outlined their concerns in a minority report. They include:
The minority had this to say:
UPDATE:
Categories: Editorial outtakes
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Friday, February 15th, 2008
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 03:50:43 pm
Don't – please don't – construe this as a defense of sex predators, sexual psychopaths, rapists, child molesters and the like.
Categories: Taking notice
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 12:12:19 pm
Saturday: Sunday: 2. Puget Sound city councils shouldn’t be sweating the possibility of a Kirkwood, Mo., type massacre. Monday: Tuesday: 2. Reverse publish, probably a posting on Legislature’s perennial obsession with sex offenders. About our editorials:
Categories: What's coming
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 04:50:34 pm
Wackos of many stripes regularly barrage this office with florid fantasies and schizoid verbiage, usually angry and hateful. Like Night of the Living Dead, a lot of these messages from the Asteroid Belt teeter precariously on the thin line that divides the terrifying from the hilarious. The letters from God stopped a few years ago, maybe because "God" got committed involuntarily. But here's a taste of an anonymous screed that just showed up in the mailbox:
And this guy gets to fill out a ballot just like you and me. Sweet.
Categories: Taking notice
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 10:10:21 am
1. The new agreement between the Puyallup Tribe and the Port of Tacoma has huge advantages for both, and the region at large. For the tribe, it promises economic diversification beyond gambling enterprises: Twenty years after the Puyallup land claims settlement, the tribe is finally poised to create the terminal the agreement originally envisioned. 2. Life without parole is better than Daniel Tavares deserves, but the guy's crazy as a loon and a death penalty would have been expensive and hard to make stick. If the family's OK with it, that ought to satisfy the rest of us. About our editorials:
Categories: What's coming
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Posted by Kim Bradford @ 10:40:32 am
Local officials' dreams of remaking the Cheney Stadium area in Tacoma can look to some impressive projects in other communities.  The minor league baseball stadiums in Frisco, Texas, (pictured right) and Dayton, Ohio, have been mentioned as inspirations. In Dayton, the baseball team's owner is trying to come to terms with the city for a $230 million Ballpark Village that would include retail, housing and entertainment. Sounds a whole lot like what Pierce County officials are eyeing. But there is one significant difference: Dayton's Ballpark Village would be built in the city's dying downtown. If you check out this run-down of recent and coming changes to minor league baseball parks, you'll notice there's a common thread: Nearly all these minor league stadiums are located in downtowns. Maybe "pika" who posted this comment on Jason Hagey's story is on to something (not about tearing down the Tacoma Dome, but about rethinking the location of the Rainiers stadium).
Categories: Editorial outtakes
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Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 10:23:14 am
This oddity from a recent AP-Yahoo survey: Sixty-three percent of Democrats say Hillary Clinton is attractive; 17 percent of Republicans agree. (Note: same face, same woman. Make that same polarizing woman.) Obama is viewed as attractive by 58 percent of Democrats and by 41 percent of Republicans. (Proof of his ability to reach across the partisan divide, at least on magazine covers.) As for John McCain, he is seen as attractive by only a quarter of both Republicans and Democrats. (At least the parties agree on something. McCain would be wise to focus on his experience, not his septuagenarian sex appeal.)
Categories: Taking notice
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 09:35:42 am
1. It's disappointing to see the Tacoma Council's hostility toward taping secret meetings, a fundamental open government measure. 2. Pierce County government forced South Hill children to cross a busy arterial (feeding a new Wal-Mart) to walk to school. Pierce County should pick up the tab, not try to foist it on the Puyallup School District. About our editorials:
Categories: What's coming
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 05:39:35 pm
Reader Ray Brassard wrote this response to my "Caucus Rage" post, below. I don't agree with him, but it's the best defense I've ever read of the caucus system. Rather than leaving it buried, I'm posting it here in plain sight:
Categories: Taking notice
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Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 01:44:57 pm
1. An ambitious plan to redevelop the area near Cheney Stadium faces serious hurdles, but give its supporters credit for thinking big. 2. A murder suspect has been evaluated for competence at Western State EIGHT TIMES over three years – and is now going back for a ninth, thanks in part to a feud between a psychiatrist and a psychologist there. Hey, this is costing real money. About our editorials:
Categories: What's coming, Editorial cartoons
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 06:00:43 pm
One Auburn reader wrote us today:
Multiply this complaint tens of thousands of time, and that's how annoyed Washingtonians are about the caucus system. We've been complaining about precisely this for many years. See our editorial today. But we journalists are seen-it-all, here-they-go-again types. Ordinary citizens – like the guy above – get genuinely incensed when they realize they're getting shut out of the nominating process. The Dems are particularly to blame. They've never once picked a delegate by primary election since Washingtonians embraced presidential primaries nearly 20 years ago. They may enjoy ignoring us professional chatterers, but you'd think they'd take their own voters a little more seriously.
Categories: Taking notice
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Posted by Kim Bradford @ 04:40:01 pm
Today's editorial supported tougher rules for owners of dangerous dogs in Pierce County. The crackdown is one-half of the answer to the county's animal control problem. The other half is population control, and there's progress to report on that front too.  Coalition Humane's low-cost spay/neuter clinic is slated to open March 3; it will begin taking appointments next week. (You can check clinic construction progress here.) Before the clinic opens its doors, the Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County hopes to set a record for the number of animals spayed or neutered on Spay Day Feb. 26. Humane Society officials are subsidizing the cost of the surgeries, which will be performed by local vets. They are hoping to do 500 — a pretty ambitious goal when you consider that they did 3,000 in all of 2007, a record itself.
Categories: Editorial outtakes
Posted by Patrick O'Callahan @ 03:28:59 pm
1. Washington’s caucus results lent Barack Obama momentum. So Washingtonians made some difference in the presidential nominating race after all. It was a good turnout, but it’s still too bad the state won’t have a meaningful primary (except 50 percent on the GOP side). 2. Today, independent groups on both sides of the political spectrum are waging aggressive campaigns for presidential candidates - and they don't have to disclose their funding sources. Who would have thought that some groups in 2008 would make the Swift Boaters look clean by comparison? About our editorials:
Categories: What's coming
Posted by Cheryl Tucker @ 05:34:34 am
I don't have Showtime, so I've never seen that cable channel's "Dexter" series, whose anti-hero is a serial killer who works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a blood pattern analyst.  But now the series will be shown on CBS. And that has the Parents Television Council up in arms, even though the network says the series will be edited somewhat to tone down the graphic violence. Wikipedia describes the PTC as "a nonprofit organization run and founded by conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III, whose stated goal is to 'promote and restore responsibility to the entertainment industry.'" Unfortunately, whenever the PTC gets upset about something on TV, it generates a lot of form e-mail letters to the editor. We won't run any of the ones that are obviously part of the letter-writing campaign. Here's the anti-"Dexter" letter we've received – again and again and again.
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Posted by David Seago @ 05:28:33 am
 When Tacoma City Councilman Rick Talbert saw the photo of himself that accompanied his Feb. 3. op-ed piece urging schools to help fight obesity, he cringed. Because the current chairman for the Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health looked, uh, heavy. "Ouch," he emailed:
You did? I said. How did you do it?
Categories: Taking notice
Posted by David Seago @ 05:24:39 am
Lobbyists for Washington cities, counties and school boards are lobbying hard against a bill that would require taping of executive sessions. Our editorial and a subsequent blog post in favor of it prompted a response from a veteran school board member in Pierce County.
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