The Seattle Times: About your future.

There isn't any money in printing and distributing newspapers on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday (except Thanksgiving, and those ads could be delivered on Wednesday), Saturday.
There isn't a daily paper anymore, they are just going through the motions.
ST will likely go to a three times a week paper. If they don't, someone else will.

The thing that newspapers online and plenty of web-only newsy sites don't do very well is be a fact aggregator. Rather than write a summary of a city council meeting a site should link through to agendas and schedules, maybe get a little reader feedback on what they want more information on an event they see on a calendar, and send Reporters (they are like journalists, only they use more facts) to those events.
There is a lot of free data out there, and I know that the vast majority of people are unlike me, they are not about to look at agendas and watch the video feed. But knowing that something is going to be discussed or decided is pretty useful information.

The ST cornered the market on columnists, but opinions are like assholes. Another dumb investment.
Going and getting actual news has actual value. Deliver it when it is profitable, like The Stranger.

Welcome to the future.

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Good thing Chris Hansen Biffed

Because I was moments away from becoming Seattle's basketball version of Billy on the Street. In this clip, I'm Billy, you are Will, and Sonics Basketball Fans are called Drew Barrymore.

But that's OK

I was thinking about writing a story about how I read the Rolling Stone article on Macklemore rather than the 400+ page DEIS on the Seattle Arena, this weekend.

Rolling Stone, p42, issue 1190, Macklemore

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Here is the part at the end of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly when Angel Eyes, p¿q (portrayed here by the letters "p", "q", and the inverted exclamation mark "¿"), gets shot by Blonde! 

woo-wi-woo, Wa-awa-wa.…

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Brian's nightmare scenario #1, the Arena DEIS public meeting

It looks like I was right, Murray did get the most votes in the 46LD

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2013 Seattle Mayor's race Primary prediction