As I remember it, the first meltdown happened somewhere around 1993. I had been practicing hard, getting up at 4 a.m. to meditate before driving my daughter to early morning swim practice and then heading into a manual labor job that sucked up the next ten to twelve hours. Maybe it was exhaustion and not spiritual maturity that caused this: In the middle of a sitting, I started crying hard because I suddenly realized the enormity of the damage we are doing to the earth. Having no idea what to do with the grief, I went to my teacher. "Go plant a tree" was his response. If it's the last day of your life, plant a tree. If it isn't, plant a tree. If it's the last day of the earth's life, plant a tree.
Looks like The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer won't face a Teamsters strike after all. Teamsters Local 174, which represents 74 drivers who haul the newspapers to Puget Sound distribution centers, had threatened to walk out in October over a contract dispute that includes Seattle Times Co. plans to outsource the drivers' jobs to outside contractor Penske Logistics.
"Journalists, start your skepticism." That was the tagline from a letter to Romenesko yesterday from David Cay Johnston, a former New York Times writer who won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on tax policy. It's worth a read. Johnston cautions reporters not to "assume that Congress must act instantly, as so many news stories state as if it was an immutable fact," nor to accept "what gullible Congressional leaders, most of them up before the voters in a few weeks, say after being given a closed-door meeting on supposed horrors." ...
Words often have powerful meaning, and the debate over terminology used in a ballot measure and in news reports could well determine the fate of Washington's Initiative 1000, known by its supporters as "death with dignity" and by critics and some in the media as "physician-assisted suicide" or simply "assisted suicide."
Now, we all know Microsoft was a big – like $200,000 big – supporter of Sound Transit's 2007 measure to expand light rail around Puget Sound. But as Mike Lindblom at The Seattle Times reported on Monday, the Redmond tech giant only plans to give $10,000 to the supporters of Proposition 1, this year's Sound Transit measure.
Sorry, Sound Transit. You are out of luck.
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