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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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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.
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There’s nothing wrong, in theory, with Federal Way having its own municipal court. Other cities have their own courts, and the wheels of justice grind along just fine.
But the Federal Way City Council is now exploring the possibility of handing its misdemeanor cases back to King County. That’s understandable. Federal Way launched its municipal court in 2000, and things haven’t gone well. The court looks downright snakebit.
The idea of creating the municipal court in the first place was to control costs. King County District Court had handled Federal Way’s misdemeanors through the 1990s – since the city’s inception – but it had been sending ever-larger bills for its services. Although the new municipal court would cost more than county justice at the outset, city officials figured they’d stay in control of the expenses by not sending the cases to another government.
That should have worked. It hasn’t.
This editorial will appear in Thursday's print edition.
The new bluegrass capital of the Northwest is Bellevue, as improbable as that sounds.
With the announcement this week that Wintergrass is leaving its Tacoma birthplace and moving to allegedly cheaper pastures on King County’s east side, Tacoma has lost a major cultural and economic asset.
A clown up at Seattle Public Utilities is trying to prove some point by forcing disclosure of the names of employees who participate in what could loosely be called a gay-advocacy group.
He’s got the law on his side, given that SPU – for reasons incomprehensible – subsidizes such “affinity groups.” It actually pays employees for attending the meetings. Under the state’s public records laws, that makes the group and its meetings everybody’s business.
As far as his forced-outing project goes, the fact that it's legal doesn't make it right. Same goes for the people who want to out the signers of Referendum 71.
What piqued my interest is the name of this particular group: “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Questioning and Friends.”
In this morning's paper, I wrote the pillars of the state economy shouldn't be taken for granted. There's evidence that critical decisions are being made now affecting one of those pillars: The Boeing Company and the aerospace cluster it anchors.
In yesterday's London Times, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney says the company may move the second 787 line outside the Puget Sound region.
Mr McNerney also indicated that he was willing to consider locating a second production line for the 787 outside of Boeing’s traditional base in Seattle because of an on-going battle with unions.
He said that all sites would be considered but a US factory was most likely. Boeing’s Seattle union shut down production for about six weeks last year in a dispute over pay costing the company several billion dollars in lost earnings and compensation payments.
