• Port of Tacoma

    Port of Tacoma – NYK Deal – Money Mostly Well Spent

    Like I said in the last post, I don’t usually read the Tacoma News Tribune. It’s a scandal rag, owned by the McClatchy organization. Last week, I couldn’t help looking at their story on the Port of Tacoma – a copy was lying there on a table at work, open to the story, Port of Tacoma’s Blair Development: Millions to nowhere. So reluctantly – knowing that with a title like that, it couldn’t be a good story – I read on. In the article, they tell the story of the development of the proposed new container terminal for NYK. Briefly,…

  • Politics

    Tacoma News Tribune – A Newspaper Only In Name

    I don’t generally read the Tacoma News Tribune. It’s a McClatchy “newspaper” – and I use that term loosely. McClatchy rags all seem to tout the McClatchy line – they’re anti-labor, right-wing, rags with a very specific, narrow agenda. I guess you could say they’re the print equivalent of Fox News. When McClatchy bought the TNT from the Baker family years ago, one of the first things they did was engineer the breaking of the newspaper’s union – pretty much just as they’ve done at most all the other McClatchy rags. That kinda set the tone for everything else. I…