Posts Tagged ‘News Items’

The Demise of “The Newstand”

The business section of today’s Bellingham Herald has a story of the imminent closure of a newsstand business that offers around 3400 titles of magazines and out-of-town newspapers, as well as a selection of books, maps, and other items.  While a lot of people might not get excited about the closure of a single business [...]

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Critical Mass: More Harm than Good

Let me just start out by saying that I am all for any effort that will help the cause for more bicycle routes, more bicycle usage, and safer conditions for riding bicycles in the cities of Cascadia.  I have been a lifelong bicycle rider, well before it was the “in” thing to be doing.  I [...]

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Light Rail for Seattle Now, Not Later

Today, the board of Sound Transit is meeting to decide whether to put a plan to increase the sales tax to finance light rail and other transit options for the next decade or two.  There are strong opinions both ways, to go ahead and put an aggressive proposal on the ballot or to do nothing [...]

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Getting the Whole Story

News is a very subjective medium. It consists of items the whole world cares about. It also consists of items that only people in my own neighborhood would care about. I know that whatever the subject, not only will the stories themselves be edited, but also the list of subjects that will be reported on [...]

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