Since it’s printed in Yakima, a semi truck filled with tens of thousands of copies of The Stranger is sitting on the other side of the 10-feet-deep body of water that used to be known as I-5. We tried Snoqualmie Pass first (closed due to avalanche conditions). We tried White Pass (closed to mudslide). We tried air freight. We tried water. We tried throwing the phone at the wall and screaming at everyone the publisher could find at four in the morning.
But all is not lost: Today we reprinted the issue at the Seattle Times printing facility in Kent (no joke) and it will be on streets this afternoon.
Enjoy this week’s paper. It was very expensive.
[Update! Are we union-busting environmental-hate-criminals? It is addressed here.]
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I just read the print edition. You shouldn’t have bothered.
What’d 51 say!?
why are most of you HATERS!!! I love the print edition of the Stranger! It’s my weird little ritual to read on Thursday with my one plus at a local pub to plan the weekend. For you haters that complained about outsourcing,last time I checked Yakima was still in WASHINGTON and not the P-Pines!Do you know how expensive it is to print a newspaper? have you noticed how SMALL, the STRANGER is getting because of the lack of advertising? maybe we should all kick in five bucks to keep the good times rolling! whew…okay…off my soap box.
While I’m not incensed about the Stranger being printed in Yakima, it would be interesting to see a summary of the reasons (financial mostly, I’d guess) that preceded that decision. How much more expensive is it to print it locally, union vs. non-union, etc?
Haven’t seen the Stranger print edition up in Bellingham for weeks.