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Peter Callaghan @CallaghanPeter

Former newsie in Washington state and Minnesota.

Joined July 2009
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Pentagon is censoring military newspaper Stars and Stripes, lawsuit alleges - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/business/…

Pentagon is censoring military newspaper Stars and Stripes, lawsuit alleges

The suit comes after Defense Department officials pledged to overhaul the publication and rid it of “woke distractions.”

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Minnesota is a top biking state. But safety could improve. Especially the last one … if you have the right of way, take the right of way. It is predictable. Waving bikes through feels kind but it puts riders in danger. startribune.com/minnesota-is…

Dear Driver: The bicyclist’s wish list

Parking in the bike lane for just a sec? Think again. Here are the top behaviors that drivers don’t realize put cyclists at risk.

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Today in 1979, the Seattle SuperSonics won their first NBA Championship. Apparently the victory parade was spectacular. (pic via @MOHAI)
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With Fergus Falls back in the news because of Mayor Ben, @CallaghanPeter reminded me of this whole episode nytimes.com/2018/12/27/us/de…

Minnesota Town Defamed by German Reporter Is Ready to Forgive (Published 2018)

A reporter for Der Spiegel published condescending fiction about Fergus Falls. Residents are eager to set the record straight, but also to move on.

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Hey Point Defiance Park history mavens … this milestone is a tenth of mile from the circle at entrance, just above the duck pond. I think it was part of CCC project in 30s. But where would Five Mile Drive have started in the old days for this to be a half mile?
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Thanks Kris!
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Walker Orenstein@walkerorenstein
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Folks, we've got a dancing elephant after ballot 5 in the endorsement race for governor at the Minnesota GOP convention in Duluth
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Public Record Media@PRM_Media
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25. Documents: Discovery in PRM-DPS lawsuit showed that DPS received PRM’s data request and all follow-up correspondence when originally send in 2022. No records produced until lawsuit initiated two years later.
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McClatchy union journalists at 4 WA newspapers strike over pay, AI use seattletimes.com/business/lo…

McClatchy union journalists at 4 WA newspapers on strike

Affected newspapers include The Tacoma News Tribune, the Tri-City Herald, The Olympian and the Bellingham Herald.

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Somehow I have moved these around for 40 years. Pretty good stadium giveaways.
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Seattle Bicycle Weekends expands as the city slows lakeside traffic seattletimes.com/seattle-new… Hey Tacoma, how about we do this to just one lane of schuster parkway sometimes?

Cars can’t go on a scenic Seattle roadway this weekend. Could that become permanent?

Some will surely call the expansion of Bicycle Weekends the latest onslaught in a war on cars. But maybe it's just closer to Olmsted's vision of a boulevard "pleasure drive."

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Waterfront dining in Tacoma
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Minus 4 tide at the Breakwater Marina.
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WA campaign finance watchdog to pay $25K over alleged meeting violations seattletimes.com/seattle-new… Operative word here is “Disclosure”

WA campaign finance watchdog to pay $25K over alleged meeting violations

As part of the settlement, members of Washington state's Public Disclosure Commission must complete additional open government training within 90 days. 

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Better Seattle biking? A UW student and a high schooler have it mapped seattletimes.com/seattle-new… Attention Tacoma city and park officials …

UW doctoral and Issaquah high school students team up on Seattle bike map

Amid Seattle's frenzy of bikeway building, the creators of Bike Butler set out to train AI to think like a bicycling human.

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May 1
New: McClatchy journalists at newspapers in 4 states are now withholding their bylines from A.I.-generated content as tensions grow over a "content scaling agent" tool that the company rolled out nytimes.com/2026/05/01/busin…

Reporters at McClatchy Withhold Bylines in Dispute Over A.I. Content

Journalists at newspapers like The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee are refusing to let the chain use their names on summarized articles generated by a new A.I. tool.

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Melissa Santos@MelissaSantos1
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Gov. Ferguson's office rolled out a policy last summer requiring most agency media communications --- including email replies to reporters --- to go through them. They also have told agency staff not to tell reporters about this media policy.
Screen grab from email reading: "I received feedback from Brionna again this afternoon regarding our communications. Going forward,we should not reference the governor's office in any procedural context—including processes, deadlines, or timelines when communicating with reporters on inquiries. *They've requested that their office not be mentioned at all.* (this line highlighted) Please use the following language when setting expectations with requestors: *highlighted*"We have adopted a new process for responding to inquiries and are working diligently to meet your deadline. However, we may need additional time to complete our review. We appreciate your patience and will follow up with you as soon as possible."*highlighted* If you need to request a deadline extension, please do so without mentioning their involvement."

ALT Screen grab from email reading: "I received feedback from Brionna again this afternoon regarding our communications. Going forward,we should not reference the governor's office in any procedural context—including processes, deadlines, or timelines when communicating with reporters on inquiries. *They've requested that their office not be mentioned at all.* (this line highlighted) Please use the following language when setting expectations with requestors: *highlighted*"We have adopted a new process for responding to inquiries and are working diligently to meet your deadline. However, we may need additional time to complete our review. We appreciate your patience and will follow up with you as soon as possible."*highlighted* If you need to request a deadline extension, please do so without mentioning their involvement."

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The Pentagon is trying to silence me | Stars and Stripes stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-…

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

Outgoing Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith has spent months speaking about her growing concern over attempted control of the newspaper.

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This continues to fly under radar but other supporters of media freedom should take notice. Stripes is pretty much straight down the middle but is still a target of DoD’s Hegseth. Stripe s focus is troops, not brass
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