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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A state panel has renewed the call for the Legislature to reverse judicial erosion of the public’s right to know.
Listen up, lawmakers: The Sunshine Committee you created to review hundreds of public disclosure exceptions has some good advice.
On Wednesday, the committee endorsed closing the loopholes the state Supreme Court has created in recent years that allow government to evade public scrutiny by lawyering up.
The recommendation, passed by a 7-3 majority that included House Majority Leader Lynn Kessler, essentially advocates enforcing the public disclosure law as it is written.
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Next up for U.S. taxpayers: a plan to bail out General Motors.
The giant automaker is stumbling toward Chapter 11. Without help, it may run out of cash by the end of the year. Bankruptcy, its officers say, is not an option. They say customers won’t buy cars from a company that looks like it’s gone bust.
It’s not just GM. Ford and Chrysler are on the same path.
As with Fannie Mae, AIG and all the rest, the logic of federal intervention is that this one’s too big to let fail. Failure could indeed be catastrophic. Auto manufacturing is America’s biggest industry. If the Big Three went completely bust, more than 2 million Americans – many of them working for suppliers – could lose their jobs.
We've seen considerable backlash against Pierce County's new ranked-choice voting system. Here's a defense from Krist Novoselic (he's a serious political commentator, but it's obligatory to point out that he used to be Nirvana's bassist):
Hello Patrick,
At first, I want to speak about elections in general:
Some people are happy with election rules because they or their candidates won. Others are unhappy with rules for the opposite reason - they lost.
Sometimes, elections produce very competent people who promote policies that one could strongly disagree with. Then the second guessing of the system starts: If only more people had turned out ... If only a candidate could have raised more money after finishing second in the primary ... If only more people had paid attention to the race?
