A conversation with Seattle
Overnight, a commenter on a story about the violent crime rate in downtown Seattle changed the headline for everyone. In a follow-on story to the shooting of a Metro bus driver, the Times supported the Downtown Seattle Association’s contention that crime is getting worse, before noting that the data say no, same old, same old. Continue reading Just Like at Gawker, Commenter Rewrites Seattle Times Headline on Crime
As if to prove their point for them, Daniel Greenstein, the Foundation’s director of postsecondary success, decided to reply with what is, in this context, a withering put-down: “The alternative — graduating fewer students at a higher cost over a longer period of time — is not serving the needs of most students,” he told the Seattle Times by email. Continue reading Gates Foundation to Chronicle of Higher Education: Our Critics are Idiots
Anyway, what is the problem, again? Rather than create a public utility to deliver fiber-optic internet to city residences, McGinn has instead chosen to pursue a public-private partnership that has customers across the country drooling over its $80-per-month rate for gigabit speed, upstream and down. Continue reading Op-Ed: Seattle Times Editorial Board’s Pitiful Swing at McGinn’s Gigabit Broadband
Writes Martin: “The Downtown Seattle Association has joined with SDOT and King County Metro on Commute Seattle, which promotes better commute options into downtown, including a cycle track. Business support will be critical, because a cycle track will likely come at the cost of on-street parking.” Continue reading Seattle Times: Cyclists need “more than paint” for safety
When gondolas (aerial trams, that is, not Venetian canoes) hit the front page of the Seattle Times, you know it’s going to be a great year. God bless Mike Lindblom for giving the idea ink. Gondolas, like Dangerfield, get no respect . Continue reading Op-Ed: 2013 is “Year of the Gondola” in Seattle
That being said, we advise you to get after it, because these gorgeous photos of John Hinterberger WILL NOT LAST! “Hint” was one of the faces of the Times in its prime, a columnist and food critic avant les foodies. Continue reading Seattle Times Photo Archive (with Hinterberger Close-Up) For Sale on eBay
Tony Ridder, who knows from newspaper past-tenses, was quoted as saying in a 2009 Seattle Business Monthly feature, “Journalistically, The Seattle Times was a good newspaper. But Frank absolutely did not make good business decisions.” It sounds more and more like an epitaph. Continue reading Op-Ed: Careful with That “Fail Faster” Mantra, Seattle Times Company