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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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Voters who want the option of physician-assisted suicide should feel comfortable voting for the Death with Dignity Act.
No matter what you call it – death with dignity, assisted suicide or the right to die – the decision by terminally ill adults to end their lives should be theirs alone under the right circumstances.
A state rightfully intercedes only when personal autonomy threatens the greater good. We’re convinced that Initiative 1000 doesn’t trigger that tipping point.
Both sides of the debate over allowing physicians to help hasten patients’ deaths hold sincere, principled positions rooted in respect for human life.
While The News Tribune’s editorial board remains uneasy about enabling doctors to help patients die, we see no decisive reason to interfere in what is a deeply personal issue.
A luxury cruise to Alaska last year by a group of top conservative writers may have been the lucky break that propelled Sarah Palin to the Republican vice-presidential nomination.
Journalist Jane Meyer has a fascinating account of Palin's "discovery" in the Oct. 27 edition of The New Yorker.
While Brickley and others were spreading the word about Palin on the Internet, Palin was wooing a number of well-connected Washington conservative thinkers. In a stroke of luck, Palin did not have to go to the capital to meet these members of “the permanent political establishment”; they came to Alaska.
Washington's legendary "Cascade Curtain" lives.
With most of the state's newspapers weighing in with their endorsements in the governor's race, Republican Dino Rossi dominates the Dry Side, Democratic incumbent Chris Gregoire the Wet Side.
The Spokesman-Review of Spokane backed the governor over the weekend, but it's the only Eastern Washington newspaper that has done so. The paper backed Rossi four years ago.
Joining in on the Rossi side was the Walla Walla Union Bulletin. The Tri-City Herald and the Yakima Herald had already gone for Rossi. Wenatchee World has not published an endorsement and may stay on the sidelines, according to the paper's editorial page editor.
New endorsements for Gregoire came from the Everett Herald, the Kitsap Sun, the Bellingham Herald and the Skagit Valley Herald. The Everett Herald backed Rossi in 2004.
The Seattle Times is the only large Western Washington daily that has endorsed Rossi, as far as I know. Still checking on the Centralia Chronicle (a likely Rossi endorser) and the Aberdeen Daily World.
How does a practicing coleopterist show support for Barack Obama? By creating a "beetle for Obama" poster, of course.
This one was created by Ainsley Seago, a Foss High School grad now working as a research entomologist in Canberra, Australia. Yep, she's my daughter.
Two former Lakewood officials – ex-police chief Larry Saunders and former deputy mayor John Arbeeny – are on opposite sides of the casino initiative on the Nov. 4 ballot. Saunders opposes the ban, Arbeeny supports it.
Saunders' viewpoint came in as a letter to the editor, but it's way too long. Arbeeny's is taken from one of the e-mails he circulates to his distribution list.
First, Saunders' letter:
