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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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Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s recent illness no doubt sent President O’Bama’s Kitchen Cabinet into a fuss. The liberal press corps certainly sounded the battle cry: Ginsberg must be replaced with a liberal woman who will protect Roe v. Wade!
If Ginsberg does step down, she will no doubt be replaced with a liberal woman judge. But there is (a little) good news for conservatives and libertarians: Obama and friends are going to have to search pretty darn hard to find anyone who is both qualified and as liberal as Ruth Bader Ginsberg!
Whatever happens, and the conservative 5-4 Supremes majority notwithstanding, the 1/3 Compromise will remain in place.
“1/3 Compromise”?
This editorial will appear in Wednesday's print edition.
Federal Way court hobbled by charges
Municipal Court Judge Michael Morgan is presiding under a cloud. That’s not fair to the people seeking justice in his court.
Serious concerns about the mental and emotional state of Federal Way’s head municipal court judge have, to public appearances at least, fallen on deaf ears.
That’s a problem for the court and the administration of justice.
Nearly three months ago, the city’s police chief wrote to the city manager to recommend that Judge Michael Morgan be put on leave following a court supervisor’s report that he was potentially unstable.
This editorial will appear in Wednesday's print edition.
Peanut scandal: More of the same lame oversight
One of the nation’s biggest recalls again points out huge gaps in food-safety regulation.
A revealing exchange took place last week at a congressional hearing into the food-contamination scandal at the Peanut Corp. of America.
Oregon Congressman Greg Walden asked the company’s president, Stewart Parnell, if he would be willing to eat some of the items included in the massive nationwide recall of peanut products.
Parnell declined to answer, much less accept the offer.
Little wonder. Products containing his company’s peanuts – including cookies, candy and ice cream distributed to stores and schools – have been linked to at least nine salmonella deaths; hundreds more have been sickened. He’d be a fool to agree to bite into any of them.
Rumor has it the message on the Hello Kitty sticky note read “Stay away from the cold medicine.” Famous last words if ever there were, but alas, Japan’s finance minister, Shoichi Nakagawa, in a hurry to last week's G7 meeting in Rome, ignored the dire warning, his mind occupied with bigger worries, and in an effort to stop some post nasal drip, he imbibed.
The international press called him “drunk,” an embarrassment to the proceedings and to his country. Apparently, slurred speech, unsteady gait and near narcoleptic fits pass for drunk these days.
Federal Way's police chief recommended – three months ago – that one of the city's municipal judges be put on leave. Yet Judge Michael Morgan's still on the bench, and no one can say why. Something's not right.
Congress and the FDA share the blame with a Georgia peanut processor for the most recent food contamination that has killed at least nine people.
If you have comments or questions about these topics, please email them to kim.bradford@thenewstribune.com. Editorials represent the consensus view of The News Tribune's editorial board.
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Today's George Will column is coming under fire for misrepresenting evidence to bolster Will's dismissal of global warming.
Will relies on two key scientific findings: That global sea ice levels remain the same as they were in 1979, and that there has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade. The first claim has been refuted by the very university researchers that Will cited. The second appears to be a convenient use of the facts, at best.
Talking Points Memo has more information here. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com takes a look at the data here.
