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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.
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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 in Thursday's print edition.
The Port of Tacoma’s recent failures reflect badly on both the executive director and commissioners elected to provide oversight.
Tim Farrell may have mismanaged a couple of key Port of Tacoma projects, but he didn’t act alone.
Farrell, the port’s executive director, came under unusual fire from the port commissioners during his most recent performance review. They criticized him for ballooning cost estimates on the port’s “most important undertaking”: construction of a Blair Waterway shipping terminal to serve the NYK Line.
Its projected cost rose a whopping 50 percent, from $800 million to $1.2 billion – largely because port officials didn’t figure correctly the expense of reconfiguring utilities and cleaning up past contamination.
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
Marijuana users may not deserve prison. But they aren’t entitled to multimillion-dollar sponsorships.
Buy Kellogg’s cereal. Eat lots of it.
That’s our reaction to calls by marijuana advocates to boycott the Kellogg Co. because it chose to stop portraying Michael Phelps as a hero for kids on boxes of Frosted Flakes.
Phelps, as the whole world must know by now, has admitted smoking weed after a photo surfaced of him taking a hit from a bong. Smoking marijuana is a common and piddly offense. Phelps acknowledged it and promptly apologized. He gets points for forthrightness.
But the Kellogg Co. gets points for not renewing its contract with Phelps after the image of him pulling on a water pipe got splashed on screens around the world.
The problem with lionizing him on breakfast tables in front of 7-year-olds was inadvertently underscored by the marijuana touts themselves.
Tim Farrell may have mismanaged a couple of key Port of Tacoma projects but he didn't act alone. Voters elect the commissioners to ensure their interests at the port are protected, and they clearly have not been minding the store.
Eat Kellogg’s corn flakes. That’s our reaction to an attempted boycott of Kellogg’s products by marijuana advocates irate that the company dropped its sponsorship of Michael Phelps. There’s a difference between arguing that marijuana laws ought to be changed and arguing that marijuana is good. People who want to coerce a private company to celebrate a dope-smoking athlete don’t get it.
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