Well, city hall 2000 was a different breed. David Postman, a reporter in the Times Olympia bureau, went back to work last week. However, some reporters are just telling Times publisher Frank Blethen to take his newspaper and shove it. According to one guild representative, as many as eight reporters are abandoning Seattle's biggest daily. Among these are Kim Barker, who got a sweet deal at The Chicago Tribune , and Dionne Searcey, who's already hard at work at Newsday in Long Island.
Somebody needs to go to manners school.
Despite inviting the public to attend its January 8 and 9 community meetings, Sound Transit's executive director, Bob White, and the agency's board chairman, Dave Earling, evidently have no use for the public's presence. Sound Transit also says it will not explore alternatives to light rail. We suggest you take the advice of King County Council Member Maggi Fimia. She and her group Sane Transit are calling on Sound Transit's board to go back to the voters with an acceptable plan.