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FILE – In this Nov. 10, 2009 photo, a man walks past a St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper box as the Gateway Arch is seen in the background in St. Louis. Hedge fund Alden Global Capital, one of the country’s largest newspaper owners with a reputation for intense cost cuts and layoffs, has offered to buy the local newspaper chain Lee Enterprises for about $141 million. In a press release Monday, Nov. 22, 2021 Alden said it sent Lee’s board a letter with the offer. It already owns 6% of Lee’s stock and is proposing to buy the rest for $24 a share. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, file) NYPS208 NYPS208

November 24, 2021 at 12:56 pm

Free Press roundup: Alden’s turkey surprise | Brier Dudley / Free Press edittor

Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for slashing newsrooms, is trying to buy yet another chain of local newspapers. This should invigorate efforts to...

November 24, 2021 at 12:52 pm

Skip the freeze, drop the nice and start a conversation | Luis Carrasco / Times Opinion columnist

This Thanksgiving, take a chance and start talking. You don't have to agree, and no minds are likely to change, but simply understanding we share...

FILE – Copies of The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper are shown on April 20, 2016, 2020, in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune will stop printing a daily newspaper after nearly 150 years at the end of the year and move to a weekly print edition. The newspaper reported Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, the change won’t result in cuts to the newsroom staff, but nearly 160 people involved with printing and delivering the daily paper will be laid off. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

November 17, 2021 at 1:55 pm

Free Press roundup: Finally, some good news | Brier Dudley / Free Press editor

The journalism crisis continues, but there are some bright spots emerging.

Homeless camp at Bitter Lake on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. About 66 people live at the site.

King County bought a hotel a little ways away, which will house some of the people living at the site.

November 12, 2021 at 1:58 pm

In a Seattle school’s backyard, lessons on compassion and its limits | Jennifer Hemmingsen / Times Opinion columnist

Why is it so hard for Seattle city and school board members to acknowledge that homelessness is a humanitarian crisis that affects the entire community?

The new Seattle Times Free Press web site.

November 12, 2021 at 11:42 am

Free Press web site debuts | Brier Dudley / Free Press editor

The Seattle Times is launching a new Save the Free Press web site. It is intended to inform people about the journalism crisis and efforts...

Committee chair Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., listens to testimony from FAA Administrator Steve Dickson during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on the implementation of aviation safety reform at the US Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) DCAR128 DCAR128

November 10, 2021 at 2:13 pm

Free Press roundup: Cantwell pushes to save local journalism; McClatchy drops nonprofit | Brier Dudley / Save the Free Press columnist

A Senate decision on the Build Back Better Act, including tax credits for local news outlets, is expected by Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, newspaper chain McClatchy decided...

A southbound light rail train passes by relatively new housing at Martin Luther King Way South and South Trenton Street near the Rainier Beach station.

The area around the Rainier Beach light rail station Friday October 29, 2021. 218671

November 5, 2021 at 2:03 pm

Rainier Beach at a crossroads: Where is light rail’s promised housing and economic equity? | Alex Fryer / Times Opinion columnist

Roosevelt and Rainier Beach represent two neighborhoods with light rail stations, and every different experiences. Housing development has been slow in Rainier Beach for a...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

November 3, 2021 at 2:31 pm

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