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2010 Media Follies!

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:00:28 -0800

eatthestate.org - By Maria Tomchick - Jan. 03 (News Analysis) - Welcome to this 15th annual selection of a few of the year’s most over-hyped and underreported local stories. With the news business, especially newspapers, undergoing a not-very-slow collapse, and hard news coverage usually the first victim of tightening budgets, there was more underreported news than ever this year. Fear not, however. America’s addiction to trivial distractions can withstand any assault from economic hardship–or from reality.

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Election 2010: WA State Voters Continue to Want Govt. Services, But Don't Want to Pay for Them

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

seattlepi.com - By Trevor Griffey - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - Looking at the election results, it seems to me that the majority of voters are neither left nor right, or perhaps they are both at once in ways that don't easily fit with either major political party's claims. Washington state voters have consistently voted for maintaining government services, but show caution to the point of hostility to creating new ones. At the same time, voters have consistently opposed paying taxes needed to maintain current levels of government services (other than special levies for education and public safety), but show caution to the point of hostility to cutting government spending when the resulting cuts are made known (as with I-745 and I-1033).

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School Libraries AXED: Librarian Layoffs As Schools Cope With Budget Crises

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Donna Gordon Blankinship - Jun. 24 (News Report) - BELLEVUE, Wash. — Students who wished their school librarians a nice summer on the last day of school may be surprised this fall when they're no longer around to recommend a good book or help with homework. As the school budget crisis deepens, administrators across the nation have started to view school libraries as luxuries that can be axed rather than places where kids learn to love reading and do research.

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Bill Gates Sr. Leads Charge To Tax The Wealthy In Washington State

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Curt Woodward - Apr. 21 (News Report) - Bill Gates Sr. is leading a new initiative campaign for a state income tax on wealthier residents, saying Washington's current tax system is unfair and doesn't supply a steady stream of money for important state programs.

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Inside the Box

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

thestranger.com - By Paul Constant - Apr. 08 (Special Report) - Seattle Public Library is at a crossroads. About a year and a half after the completion of the Libraries for All initiative that saw the SPL system expand to 26 branches across the city, and a few months after budget cuts brought more than half of those branches down to an anemic, five-day-a-week schedule, the system suffers from a complex layering of crises. The Library Board of Trustees is attempting to reimagine the library for a future it considers to be more about information than physical books while balancing the system's $50 million annual budget. City Librarian Susan Hildreth is spearheading a rebranding program that includes surveys, focus groups, and an added advisory board. Meanwhile, many librarians feel unrepresented by management, and some fear retribution for speaking their minds against new policies and restructuring.

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State braces for climate change

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

wenatcheeworld.com - By K.C. Mehaffey - Nov. 25 (Special Report) - Officials from several state agencies will gather in Wenatchee early next month to ask people here how the state should prepare for climate change.

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Paul Schene: King County Deputy Caught On Tape Punching, Kicking 15-Year-Old Girl (VIDEO)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Manuel Valdes - Feb. 28 (News Report) - A King County sheriff's deputy kicks a 15-year-old girl, slams her to the floor of a jail cell, strikes her and pulls her hair in violence captured on videotape.

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