This blog is designed to give readers a glimpse of our editorial-page operation and how we make our decisions. We’ll let you know who we’re meeting with, what they’re telling us, what events and issues we’re looking at. We’ll also pass on information and observations that may not make our print editions. In addition to the editorial board members who post on this blog, the board includes Publisher David Zeeck, Executive Editor Karen Peterson and Managing Editor Dale Phelps.
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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.
Michael Allen, professor of history at the University of Washington Tacoma, was born and raised in Ellensburg. He served with the U.S. Marines in Vietnam from 1969-70. He has written five books, including the prize-winning "Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus' Great Discovery to the War on Terror," "Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination" and "Western Rivermen, 1763-1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse." Allen lives in Tacoma and Ellensburg and has three children.
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There's nothing the conservative editorial page editors of the Wall Street Journal love more than sticking it to The New York Times, the exemplar of the liberal establishment.
Here's a nifty zinger that appeared as a "Notable & Quotable" item in Saturday's Journal:
From a New York Times editorial on July 3, 1984, on Geraldine Ferraro's nomination for vice president:
Where is it written that only senators are qualified to become President? . . . Or where is it written that mere representatives aren't qualified, like Geraldine Ferraro of Queens? . . . Where is it written that governors and mayors, like Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, are too local, too provincial? . . . Presidential candidates have always chosen their running mates for reasons of practical demography, not for idealized democracy . . . What a splendid system, we say to ourselves, that takes little-known men, tests them in high office and permits them to grow into statesmen . . . Why shouldn't a little-known woman have the same opportunity to grow?
I've favored extending the time Point Defiance Park's Five Mile Drive is closed to vehicular traffic. I've even editorialized about it.
But now Metro Parks says it is making the weekend closure of the road permanent at Point Defiance Park from dawn to 1 p.m. on weekends. (You can still take a survey on the proposal for another week by clicking here.) I have to admit to having one misgiving, based on personal experience.
I was back on one of the trails at Point Defiance on a Sunday morning in July with my sister and a friend when I tripped and badly hurt my ankle. (I later found out it was broken, thanks to the nice folks in the Tacoma General ER.) I needed someone to bring me some crutches so that I could get out to the road and be taken to the hospital.
We considered calling 911, but figured what would happen is that a fire truck and ambulance would show up and a crew of firefighters would have to hike in and haul me out. I didn't think my injury warranted such a fuss, not to mention whatever I'd be billed for ambulance transport.
