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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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North Korea’s bizarre government has been in the kidnapping business for a very long time.
Its agents may have abducted dozens of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and early 80s, including a 13 year old, Megumi Yokata. The Japanese government has identified 16 who were spirited out of Japan to North Korea, and Kim Jong-Il has fessed up to 13 of those.
Here's a Slate magazine discussion of this nasty North Korean habit.
Hundreds of South Koreans have been snatched over the years. The northern dictatorship to this day claims to be the rightful government of South Korea, so by its lunatic logic it may feel entitled to grab anyone on the Peninsula.
Kim Jong-Il is a famous movie buff. In 1978, he is believed to have ordered the abduction of actress Choi Eun-hee and her film director husband, Shin Sang-Ok. They were put to work making movies. Shin made a break for it at one point and was sent to prison for five years. Eventually, they both got out.
This editorial will appear in Friday's print edition.
Two American journalists sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea this week are quite the catch for Pyongyang.
One’s the attractive sister of a TV news personality and suffers from a recurring ulcer that is sure to be aggravated by time in a North Korean labor camp. The other, of South Korean descent, is mom to a 4-year-old girl who recently had to celebrate preschool graduation without her.
Both were reporting a story on human trafficking for former Vice President’s Al Gore’s San Francisco cable television network when they were arrested. Their families, journalism organizations, women’s groups and human rights advocates are all pleading for their return.
These are not the sort of Americans that the United States can simply leave behind, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il knows it.
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
Unless you suffer from cancer, rheumatoid arthritis or some other serious and difficult-to-treat illness, you may not know about the promise of “biologic” medicines.
Decisions being made now in Congress will likely determine how big that promise will be.
Biologics are a new breed of pharmaceuticals manufactured in living organisms, often bacteria. Based on advances in molecular biology, they are precisely targeted at the biochemical processes that produce disease.
A good example is Herceptin, which is proving successful in treating the most aggressive forms of breast cancer. Developed from an antibody found in mice, it homes in on the stem cells that fuel the spread of breast cancer. By comparison, such traditional treatments as surgery and chemotherapy are crude and untargeted.
