Ex-Stranger news editor Josh Feit has started a new politics web site called Publicola, as in Publius Valerius. Funded by a “secret cabal, including one Republican” and linked to David Goldstein’s HA Seattle, the site will include news from D.C. and Olympia, plus “punditry and spiritual advice” from former Stranger news writer Sandeep Kaushik, tech news by Economist and Seattle Times contributor Glenn Fleishman, and reporting by Chris Kissel.
Kissel’s got a nice little scoop up right now about the fact that Dave Reichert—the “moderate” Republican rep from Washington State’s 8th District—voted against the Lily Ledbetter Act, which overturned a Supreme Court ruling that set a 180-day window on salary discrimination claims. The ruling—named after a woman who discovered she had been making less than less-qualified, less-experienced men for years—said that women could only sue for discrimination within 180 days of the date the discrimination began. The Dems carried the legislation, which Obama has named as one of his top priorities, 247-171.
I was just thinking what the internet needed was another political website. I mean there is like a shortage of that on the web.
Little nod to the kid Kissel. Good to see him continuing onwards.
I was just thinking about Josh a day or two ago. He was so hot to get a job with “mainstream media.” Now that there pretty much isn’t any mainstream media left (or certainly none that’s hiring), I was wondering how he was surviving.
I wish him luck, especially since, as Cato says, there isn’t exactly a crying need for one more political Internet site.
Wasn’t Pubicola Anita Hill’s favorite soda?
Josh Feit is a spent force, all used up. His wad is shot. He’s like a porn star who has been in the business too long.
haha @ 4.
Thank You …
Thank You very much
Hey Erica: Is this one of the “thousand smaller, nimbler competitors” that will replace the daily newspapers? ‘Cause four days in they don’t have a single comment on any of their posts. Makes me wonder if anyone’s reading…
san deep wasn’t he the brains behind the can’t lose Burner campaign – spiritual, right.
why did you cunts fire him, again?
ah, yes, the Bruner campaigns, number one and two
god, spare us number three, even if she is giving a lot of head (yu know who you are)
That. Is. UG-LEE.
Could’ve hired an out-of-work web designer with some talent, but no, you hack up a Wordpress template and throw on a logo you slapped together in about 15 seconds.
Oh well. I guess we don’t have enough Crosscuts cluttering up the Seattle blog world, so what’s yet another one?