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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: R.I.P. (2)
It’s in the P-I. Flicker: GlenFleishman I never read the Post-Intelligencer, but regardless, it’s a sad day for journalism. An article in Time Magazine presented the issues fairly clearly. The problems in the newspaper industry are well known. I won’t dwell on it. Declining print readership means declining revenue from advertising sales. Tough economic times [...] -
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer R.I.P.
Sun Sets on the P-I. Flickr: Csaila Today marks the final edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. From the paper itself: The Hearst Corp. announced Monday that it would stop publishing the 146-year old newspaper, Seattle’s oldest business, and cease delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers. The company, however, said it would maintain seattlepi.com, making [...] -
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer R.I.P (Prelude: May the News Prevail)
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1874. Flickr: Origins of History William Faulkner was a verbose dude, but in my opinion, his most poignant words came in his uncharacteristically concise 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that [...] -
DC Voting Rights: Ken Starr Edition
Welcome to DC! Flickr: HeatherMG While the DC Voting Rights Act is stalled in the House due to the unfortunate gun amendment. I came across (via Rober Schlesinger) this editorial in The Utah Standard-Examiner by Ken Starr and Viet Dinh. Seems that even with the Prop 8 oral arguments only recently passed, Starr and his [...] -
Gridlock and the Renewable Grid
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Smart Grids… they’re like smart and think for us
May I quote the Department of Energy? Shazzam! Our century-old power grid is the largest interconnected machine on Earth, so massively complex and inextricably linked to human involvement and endeavor that it has alternately (and appropriately) been called an ecosystem. It consists of more than 9,200 electric generating units with more than 1,000,000 megawatts of [...] -
DC Voting Rights Act: Update (2)
Thank you Rober Schlesinger. Voting rights for District of Columbia residents has become a gun rights issue thanks to the NRA. Senate leaders did leave the opportunity open for them. I suppose it’s not that unbelievable that politicians and lobbyists would play politics with the rights of DC’s nearly 600,000 residents. NPR, did some nice [...] -
Prop 8 California Supreme Court: Photos
The California Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the legal challenge to prop 8 yesterday. I sat outside taping the feed from the proceedings for KQED … They don’t let reporters bring any electronics into the courtroom. While listening to the orderly legal arguments, I had front row seats to the heated demonstrations outside. Prop [...] -
DC Voting Rights Act: Update
The DC Voting Rights Legislation which would give the district a long sought after vote in Congress appears to be at an impasse in The House of Representatives thanks to the gun amendment passed by the Senate last week. “D.C. leaders hoped that provision would not be included in the House version, but the National [...] -
DC Voting Rights Act: Here we go again
The DC Voting Rights Act of 2009 passed the Senate in amended form on February 26, 2009. It’s up for a vote in the House this week according to a statement by House Majority Leader Stacy Hoyer. The bill turns Washington DC into a Congressional district and provides it with a voting member in the [...]