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Editorial page editor Patrick O’Callahan oversees the online and printed opinion sections of The News Tribune. He came to The News Tribune in 1987 and has worked at Washington newspapers since 1979. E-mail him at patrick.ocallahan@thenewstribune.com
Editorial writer Cheryl Tucker, in addition to writing commentary, manages the daily production of the editorial and op-ed pages and edits letters to the editor. She began her journalism career in 1974 at a Virginia newspaper and came to The News Tribune in 1978. E-mail her at cheryl.tucker@thenewstribune.com.
Editorial writer Kim Bradford manages the online opinion section of The News Tribune and writes commentary. She joined The News Tribune in 2005 after working 11 years at newspapers in Washington and Maryland. E-mail her at kim.bradford@thenewstribune.com.
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Editor emeritus David Seago retired from The News Tribune in 2008 after 41 years at The News Tribune. E-mail him at sds99@harbornet.com.
Richard Davis’ column on state politics frequently runs in the print edition of The News Tribune. He was president of the Washington Research Council, a statewide think tank, from 1986 through 2006. Currently, as a principal with The Simeon Partnership, Inc. he coordinates the activities of the Washington Alliance for a Competitive Economy, a business coalition founded by the Research Council, the Association of Washington Business and the Washington Roundtable.
Karen Irwin of University Place, a mother of four, has been a frequent contributor to The News Tribune's print editions. She has also written for Seattle's Child, Puget Sound Parent, the Tacoma Weekly, the Fayetteville Observer Times and the political blog Right Meets Left. She graduated from California Lutheran University with a degree in English literature and is currently working toward a history degree.
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Russell Investments didn't "lose" $4 billion in hedge funds, and the company is still doing relatively well despite the troubles in the financial markets.
That's what I was told today by an acquaintance who asked not to be identified but is familiar with the workings of Russell Investments. He took issue with both a Wall Street Journal article the TNT published today and my blog post yesterday based on the same article.
The headline on the blog post was "Russell's $4 billion loss." Russell didn't incur a financial loss of $4 billion, the source said.
True, the two funds Russell is closing down saw their assets go from $6 billion to less than $2 billion. But that total was assets withdrawn from the funds by investors who had lost confidence in them. The investors who withdrew from the funds did not lose their principal.
The hit to Russell, aside from the blow to its reputation, is a drop in management fees as a result of the withdrawals, according to this account.
Lots and lots of salmon in Columbia Basin. Not so much in Willamette Basin.
Translation: Why do those greenies go on about tearing down the Snake River dams?
NOAA Fisheries: Columbia River salmon numbers continue to grow; sockeye "best in decades"
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Most of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Basin continues to see good returns of adult salmon as they head back to their native streams or their hatcheries to spawn. This week brings news that total 2008 chinook returns counted at Bonneville Dam so far stand at over 265,000, surpassing for the first time this year the 10-year average.
1. Today’s list of Washington schools failing to meet federal guidelines for adequate yearly progress is disturbingly long. Some of the blame can be pinned on a rigid federal law that unfairly stigmatizes certain schools, but as the state’s WASL results showed earlier this week, this state still has far to go to improve classroom instruction.
2. Whatever he says in his acceptance speech tonight, Barack Obama has already secured his place in history as America’s first black major party presidential nominee. And Hillary Clinton came close to being the first woman.
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Whenever I hear of a truly awful crime, something so depraved the news will reach the dark side of the moon, I cringe and hope that no Tacoma connection will surface. Sadly, a string of past atrocities have conditioned me to fear otherwise.
Joseph Edward Duncan (left), the torture-children-to-death murderer who just got the federal death penalty is from Tacoma.
David Brame, who may be the only big-city police chief ever to kill his wife and himself in this country, was – naturally – Tacoma's police chief.
John Allen Muhammed, AKA the Beltway Sniper, practiced his marksmanship in his house in you-know-where.
Earl Kenneth Shriner, the deviant whose mutilation of a 7-year-old boy in 1989 led to national community notification laws, committed the act in ... yes, Tacoma.
Serial killer Robert Lee Yates Jr.: Trolled for victims in Tacoma. (That connection's pretty tenuous, thank heaven. He also got his death penalty in Tacoma.)
Ted Bundy (right). Need I say more?
Other cities undoubtedly produce or harbor more monsters per capita than Tacoma. It's just that Tacoma's breed of monsters seem to have such bizarre MOs, such a flair for depravity, that they get the kind of notoriety money can't buy.
I'm a Tacoman. I hate this. I just wish the city's fabulous neighborhoods and culture could be marketed as successfully as the serial killers who've crossed its path.
Readers of our print edition could hardly miss that the lead editorial cartoon was repeated on the op-ed page, where it ran with the Leonard Pitts Jr. column.
The cartoon above is the one that should have appeared with the column. We'll run it in the lead position Friday on B6; it will work well to illustrate the editorial on Barack Obama's acceptance speech.
So how did the mistake happen? As the page designer, I plead guilty. Due to the intricacies of how we "name" items that we place on pages, both cartoons inadvertently got the same name – so the same cartoon showed up twice. Although we saw two different cartoons on the computer screen and on page proofs, the computer system goes by the items' names.
