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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Hi my name is Callie, aka “Caaaalleeeeee,” “yadumbcat,” or a more recent moniker, "VeeVee." I go by all of ‘em.
Yesterday, I was diagnosed with PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
My symptoms? Phantom fur balls, mostly. I hack a lot. Hack.
The doctors say it’s neurological, a tic is what they called it, only I told them I had a tick a few years back, and this ain’t no tick, a tick’s a giant flea that don’t move, but they said it’s a different kind of tic, they called it a “brain hiccup” I told them cats don’t hiccup, they faint before they hiccup.I know this because one of my littermates, Celia, was always fainting and it turned out she had a diaphragm that spasmed involuntarily. She eventually grew out of it and then got hit by a car.
They tell me I’m famous now. I spend years perfecting haikus and now I’m famous for getting stuck in a twenty-seven dollar couch. That’s life for you.
“Cat gets trapped in twenty-seven dollar couch” You hadn’t heard? It’s all over the newspapers and Internet. http://www.thenewstribune.com/887/story/664313.html
Just to set things straight: I wasn’t “trapped” per se, I got in the couch so I could certainly get out of it, it’s not like they sewed me up in the thing, I just didn’t want to get out.
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
The secret ballot is fundamental to democracy. It’s as important in unionization votes as it is in political elections.
That’s why Congress ought to reject the Orwellian-named “Employee Free Choice Act,” a bill that would deliver exactly the opposite of what it promises.
The EFCA is designed to strengthen organized labor’s hand in dealing with employers. As a broad goal, that’s a matter of legitimate policy debate.
But one of its provisions is outrageous. It would let organizers pre-empt the usual union-certification elections and win the right to represent a group of employees by collecting signatures from a bare majority of them.
The catch is, the signatures on the required cards would not be confidential. The organizers would know who signed and who didn’t; they could disclose that to anyone. This would multiply the opportunities for coercion. Workers who might prefer a different union – or no union at all – would know that their refusal to sign could become common knowledge in their workplace.
There's plenty of blame to go around for the economic mess. And humor columnist Joel Stein is happy to name names.
Here's a column that won't get in the paper, but I thought our online readers would enjoy it.
By Joel Stein
I leave the petty details of fixing this economic crisis to others. I shall focus on a far more important task: assigning blame.
I particularly want someone to blame because last Friday, Best Life magazine offered me $7,500 to write a cover story on actor John Krasinski, which I accepted because I’m a huge fan of both Krasinski and $7,500. But on Wednesday, Best Life folded, and now I’ll never get to meet that $7,500.
My first target was former Fed chief Alan Greenspan, partly because he’s made himself vulnerable by apologizing and mostly because he sort of looks like Mr. Burns on “The Simpsons.”
