Twenty-five years ago, the Keck family of newspapers expanded our “node of operation” to include Seattle, Washington, the jewel of the Pacific Northwest. I’m not quite sure who made the decision, but it certainly wasn’t a “Keck-level decision,” as we call them.
I made it to the paper we have out here a few months after launch. The staff was a “strange” collection even for a newspaper, especially in those days. We had a nice-looking hippie lady who could sing pretty good. A “theater-type person” who had, as I remember, a pretty bad temper. A funny fellow with red hair, and a lady from Persia. Anyway, I was not impressed and was going to sell the typewriters for scrap and call it a day.
