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ALL MEMBERS »Opening statements by the three attending members of the Federal Communications Commission at tonight's hearing in Seattle on media ownership (all PDF files): Michael Copps, Jonathan Adelstein, and Deborah Tate. You can listen to the hearing and find some relevant documents here.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWMcClatchy, which owns 49.5 percent but has no say in operations, says its share of the locally owned, private company dropped in value in less than a year from $102 million to $19 million.
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSVery busy week for news, and our knowledge workers have been busy thinking and writing about it. They'll also be talking about it. Here's who's on what and when.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWWhy is it that when a Tim Eyman initiative is thrown out by the courts, as happened this week with I-747, our spineless leaders immediately say they'll abide by Eyman's bad law anyway? Whatever you do, Gov. Chris Gregoire advised all local governments, resist the temptation to raise property tax collections more than 1 percent a year, now that the state Supreme Court has tossed out I-747, the 2001 initiative that put that onerous limit on increases. Why is that? The court ruled that the people had been misled by the initiative, so why not abide by the court rather than ask, What Would Tim Do?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWFormer state Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald fills Joel Connelly's P-I column this morning, and you can read it as the opening salvo of Transpo War II, or Who Lost Transit? MacDonald makes it clear why he wore out his welcome in Gov. Chris Gregoire's cabinet, for he is incisively critical of the Proposition 1 measure that the governor tepidly endorsed, and lays the main blame for the transportation meltdown on the head of elected leaders.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe big, surprise, seven-hour public hearing about media ownership, announced suddenly just a week ago by the Federal Communications Commission, is this evening in Seattle at Town Hall. You didn't have any plans tonight, right? Actually, turnout is going to be huge, because ticked off activists have been mobilizing. Could be the best party in town. For context, Casey Corr today writes about the FCC's enormous power. And here's an earlier Seattle Times article that sets the stage for this particular event. Here's a really good, concise Associated Press rundown of the issues at stake.
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Riding in on overreaction to a financial crisis, these reformers were so wrapped up in their various political agendas that they lost sight of the basics of educating kids. They paid a price in this week's election.
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