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The Seattle Times’ Food & Wine section has an excellent article today on the impending arrival of Trader Vic’s in Bellevue, directly across Lake Washington from Seattle. Seattle once boasted Trader Vic’s second location, which started out named The Outrigger. The location was a Seattle institution, located at the base of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, which later became the Westin Hotel, from 1948 until its closure in 1992. The article does a great job of describing the important place that Trader Vic’s had on the Seattle culinary scene, and ... gives a great view of what the hospitality was like. In particular, great tribute is paid to the restaurant’s long-time manager, Harry Wong:
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The Seattle Times originated as the Seattle Press-Times, a four-page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily circulation of 3,500, which Maine teacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought in 1896. Renamed the Seattle Daily Times, it doubled its circulation within half a year. By 1915, circulation stood at 70,000. As of October 2006, weekday circulation stood at 212,691.
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The Seattle Times finally printed what has been rumored in local journo-circles for some time: that Seattle Weekly founder David Brewster wants to start an ultra-local online-only newspaper. Not a blog, but a newspaper, which would be fairly unchartered territory. Not surpringly, Brewster is having trouble finding investors for this would-be endeavor. It'll probably be tough to find advertisers, too; not to mention writers willing to report out storiesfor beer money.But Brewster has thrown caution to the wind before(hence, this paper's birth and continued existence)and succeeded. Still, I'm a little dubious: My hunch is that once one of the two dailies folds, in its wake will emerge an online-only newspaper with skeleton newsroom and ad crews already in place — which will probably be the best barometer for whether this concept's time has come.
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The reason The Seattle Times got around to reporting this news today is because King County Exec Ron Sims made a splash at yesterday’s overrated global warming press conference down in Olympia by stating again! (the PI got this wrong last week) that he’s against both the rebuild and tunnel, and he’s for the surface/transit option.
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Bill Richards is a former Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reporter who covered the Seattle newspapers' joint operating agreement for The Seattle Times under a three-year contract that ended in 2005. He ... worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1990-91. You can e-mail him in care of editor@crosscut.com.
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Online college in Locke's budget Seattle Times, December 29, 1998, by Roberto Sanchez Gov. Gary Locke wants to put $1.5 million into a new college that will borrow everything it needs from other schools - classes, degrees, even walls. If it survives the Legislature, Locke's "Washington Online College" won't be a college as much as a collage of courses already offered by various state schools. And most of its offerings, at least in the beginning, won't be online, but more traditional "distance-learning" courses taught by correspondence, video, interactive television as well as over the Internet."
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