Archive for March, 2009

Well, Duh….

The headline in the Eugene Register-Guard* print edition on March 5 reads:
Bullying persists despite state laws
The article opens with:
Despite Oregon’s eight-year-old anti-bullying law, about one-third of Oregon teens report having been harassed according to a review released Wednesday by a coalition pushing to strengthen the law.
Did the writer really expect that a piece of legislation [...]

Today marks the end of the Seattle PI’s print edition:
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the region’s pioneer newspaper and the city’s oldest continually operating business, a newspaper that both shaped and was shaped by the community it covered, prints its last edition Tuesday — nearly a century and a half after its forebear first rolled off a [...]