Stories for March 25, 2008

Times Co. memo reveals dip in online ad revenue

Tue, Mar 25, 3 p.m.

Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen's new mantra for his paper's employees goes like this, according to an in-house memo circulated around the Seattle paper on Monday: "Surviveâ€¦transformâ€¦transitionâ€¦thrive." Sounds kind of catchy, but so far the Times seems to be hung up on the "survive" part.

Maybe it's not so easy keeping factories in Seattle

Tue, Mar 25, noon

By O. Casey Corr

I'm a big fan of the Puget Sound Business Journal, which this week has a story about four high profile factories that might leave Seattle. A lot of media attention has followed efforts to keep Korry Electronics, which was looking at the Port of Seattle's Interbay site. (I refuse to call it North Bay.)

The key to safer public toilets

Tue, Mar 25, 9:22 a.m.

By David Brewster

The City of Seattle is in a pickle over its five, very expensive public toilets. In the spirit of adding to this decade-long debate, I have a suggestion: keyed toilets. The idea comes from Freeway Park, which I am helping other citizens to reactivate and where the Parks Department had to close its public bathrooms due to crime. Our proposal is to station a vendor in front of them, selling coffee, newspapers, ice cream and the like, and to have the vendor control the keys to the public bathrooms. The vendor would deny the keys to obvious problem people, like prostitutes and drug dealers. He or she would keep the bathrooms stocked and clean. And people using them would feel safer, knowing only one person can enter at a time, thanks to those keys.

A friend goes off to war — for a second time

Tue, Mar 25, 5 a.m.

By O. Casey Corr

It's hard when a friend goes off to war, especially when the president is envious.

Seattle's historic contradictions

Tue, Mar 25, 5 a.m.

By Knute Berger

A budding property rights rebellion fizzled at a City Hall showdown over the city's historic landmark system. But a lawsuit looms, and even defenders agree that improvements can be made, especially in a city that sends mixed messages to preservationists and developers.

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