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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This editorial will appear Monday in the print edition.
Collective bargaining, meet economic reality
The deal struck with state employee unions in 2002 has an out clause – and the governor and Legislature should use it.
Gov. Chris Gregoire’s plan to plug a $5.7 billion budget gap with across-the-board pain has been called responsible, realistic and even courageous.
State workers now contend it’s also illegal. The state’s largest employee union is suing Gregoire, challenging her decision to skip pay raises for state employees. Other unions are expected to follow suit.
Gregoire had to see it coming. The Federation of State Employees is doing what unions do – fighting hard for its dues-paying members.
This is the most painful thing I've had to tell readers since I became editor of the opinion section. Because The News Tribune is dropping the New York Times news service, our pages are losing the New York Times editorial columnists.
You might say we're collateral damage. Like virtually all newspapers in this country, The News Tribune is having to cut its expenses dramatically. That meant the NYT news service had to go.
Executive Editor Karen Peterson did her best to keep the columnists while dropping the news. But the NYT people aren't dumb – they know a lot of their customers get their service in large part to get their columnists. They refused to unbundle.
Here's what Karen had to say about it in her column today:
If some is good more is better. That’s a Proverb right? Well, if it isn’t it should be according to Casey Treat and his flock at Christian Faith Center in Federal Way.
Apparently the eight thousand congregants aren’t enough for the husband and wife dynamic duo Casey and Wendy Treat. They have two thousand more folks folding in to hear them preach every Sunday 40 miles up the road in Everett.
If the Treats get their wish for a helistop they can fly via helicopter to and from both campuses with ease.
I bet folks down south in Tacoma and beyond wouldn’t mind hearing from them as well. No doubt many have read the numerous books the Treats have published and seen their daily television show.
Many are asking, ok I am asking, what’s to stop them from preaching at just two churches?
