News Writing

Editorials And News Stories By Michael Pellegrini

Except where noted, all appeared in the

Discrimination in Any Form is Wrong
i-200 would correct basic inequities in laws

 

Power Play on The Waterfront *
Nation Held Hostage By Shipping Lines

* Published in the Portland Oregonian, October 4, 2002.

 

Partisan Blood-lust
The Clinton Impeachment

 

When Is A Cop Not A Cop?
Fashion Police In Tacoma

 

Las Vegas On-The-Sound

Gambling with our future?

 

Library Wars
The Final Chapter?

 

New Narrows Bridge

Yes Vote a Solution to SR 16’s Traffic Woes?

You Get What You Pay For
Teacher Pay Raises

Union-Busting In Tacoma
Library Board Moves Boldly into the 18th Century

 

Kaiser Strike Enters Eighth Month
Strikers still confident

Sex Discrimination Investigator Sues City
Charges Pattern of Discrimination Against Women

 

Gambling In Tacoma
City Considers Zoning Changes

 

Mini-Casino Proposed for Downtown
Neighbors Vow Opposition

 

Picket Lines At Kaiser Aluminum
United Steelworkers On Strike

 

Success At Salishan
Growing Up In The Projects

 

Tacoma Library Labor Strife
The Saga Continues

 

Taxi Cab Terror
Cab Drivers Ponder Their Chances

 

Effect of the Lockout at Pier 4

A statement written by Pellegrini and used by the ILWU in court against the PMA, following the west coast longshore lockout in the fall of 2002. Published on the Local 23 website.

 

The West Coast ports disaster and the blame game

Originally printed in  the Journal of Commerce, February 13, 2015