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ALL MEMBERS »More people are reading newspapers than ever before – on the Web. Yet publishers in Seattle and elsewhere continue to lament their decline. Why are they failing to capitalize on all these new eyeballs?
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The Obama, John McCain, Ron Paul, and Mike Huckabee campaigns in Washington and Idaho treated young journalist-bloggers from the UW like pros. The Hillary Clinton campaign couldn't be bothered.
READ MORE | 7 COMMENTSA majority of registered voters across party lines would prefer that Washington become a primary-only state, according to a new Washington Poll. The finding, based on a Feb. 7-18 survey of 300 randomly selected registered voters statewide, comes in the wake of last week's largely anticlimactic presidential primary election, held 10 days after the state's party caucuses.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe end-of-the-month showdown between the Seattle Times Co. and Teamsters Local 174 truckers appears to be off, for now anyway. Times Co. senior vice president for human resources Alayne Fardella, in an update sent to the paper's employees today, Feb. 25, said the company has not sent the required 30-day notification of termination of its contract with 74 union truckers and mechanics, leaving the old contract in place. The company still plans to outsource bulk trucking of newspapers to private contractor Penske Logistics, Fardella says, but it isn't clear when.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWUtah, normally immune to slumps, is feeling the effects, and a survey story in The New York Times sheds some interesting light on the changing Mountain West. In the past, the Rocky Mountain West's economy has been driven by commodity prices for oil and copper and gold, notoriously cyclical, and military spending, also fickle. More recently the economy has been dominated by real estate and construction, as well as recreation.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe folks at Sound Transit really want you to take an online survey to help them do what voters said shouldn't be done via Proposition 1. To get you into proper survey-taking mood, the entry to the survey page states: "Studies show that by 2030, rush 'hour' could last all day in many places." A startling statistic, no doubt, but one begging several questions: What studies? Which places? How are they defining 'rush hour,' and what does that mean, really, that it would last all day? A few links to more information would go a long way here.
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