Is Nina Shapiro still writing at SW? I rather enjoy her work and it would be a shame not see her contibuting to some outlet.

It does appear SW has become a boat floundering on an open ocean whose sails were tossed overboard.

---Jensen

DAMN! Ol'George, with his political insights, progressive views, instincts and writing skills was the best thing the SW had going for them. Too bad, but oh well. Best of Luck George!

DAMN! Ol'George, with his political insights, progressive views, instincts and writing skills was the best thing the SW had going for them. Too bad, but oh well. Best of Luck George!

Two things.

1. The New Times merger is only half the picture. The addition of the Seattle Metropolitan Magazine to the local media mix had as much to do with the exodus of SW staffers in the past year, as the cowboys from Phoenix.

2. There's been far more than 5 editorial/production staffers leave because of New Times and the Met.

- Terry Coe - Publisher (NT)
- Knute Berger - Editor (NT)
- Chuck Taylor - Managing Editor (NT)
- George Howland Jr - Political Editor (NT)
- Michaelangelo Matos - Music Editor (NT)
- Steve Wiecking - Stage Editor (Met)
- Laura Cassidy - Food Editor (Met)
- Mary Bradford - Production Director (Met)
- Karen Steichen - Art Director
- Jay Vidheecharoen - Assistant Art Director
- Andrew McCarty - IT Director (Met)
- Gary Love - New Media Development Manager (NT)

Howland and Rick Anderson are the only reasons to ever pick up the Weekly. And then there was one. When are they pulling the plug?

Who was saying the Seattle Weekly was going to become more interesting because of this, again?

Frat boys are pretty much the opposite of interesting.

Well, here's to hoping there will be a third weekly that will fill the void that Stranger leaves outside Capitol Hill, and reactionary political angst, because the New Seattle Weekly is going to try hard to not give a fuck, as opposed to trying to give a fuck and usually falling flat on the noggin.

(Nothing wrong with Capitol Hill and reactionary political angst, by the way. I just wish there was a bit more to the Stranger. Slog's the only thing I read now.)

oh god! does that mean we won't have to hear that 'tard on kuow on fridays anymore? please god let it be so!

(even if kuow is the "weekly" of fm radio. ie. lame.)

A third weekly? Even a second? Who needs either?

With disgruntled ex-newspapermen starting their own blogs, rather than starting ad-led alt.weeklies, I personally have serious doubt that we'll see another legitmate paper-product news outlet in this town ...

Howland's not on KUOW on Fridays, Berger is. But Howland was on KUOW this past Monday discussing DOMA. Dan Savage was quoted on the show, and seconds later Howland dismissed The Stranger as electorally irrelevant. Who's irrelevant now, George?

I have no credentials or credibility, and yet I wouldn't be surprised if the SW offered me a job out of desperation.

I wouldn't take it, but it'd be funny. They're down to the dreks.

There's still Anderson - one of the best reporters in Seattle - but for how long?

Let me get this straight: Howland's on a lame & local KUOW show, talking about gay marriage. Savage has an op-ed in the New York Times, his seventh or eighth. And the Stranger is irrelevant?

i love george howland. didn't he once write for the stranger? you should get him back onboard.

while you're at it, grab rick anderson and save him from the sinking ship that is seattle weekly.

i used to work at the weekly (1999-2001) and i cannot believe what a disaster it is over there. i mean, it's always been somewhat of a clusterfuck but, jesus. i don't see how it can survive.

as irrelevant as the weekly has become, i do think it's important to have two alt news weeklies in a city our size. it's a shame they can't figure it out over there.

Interesting.

I had a dream last night about people I worked with at the SW in my 6.5 years there, so I decided to google and found out all this info.

It's probably a good thing for the staff who had been at the Seattle Weekly a long time to get shaken up and find fresh opportunities.

As far as hiring George Howland back at the Stranger, I think that The Stranger would have to pay him a living wage and offer decent benefits and stabililty, something that is oft lacking at said place.

Good luck to all ex-SW employees!

I wouldn't have George back. Period.

He was a drag on our paper and we were happy to see him go to the Weekly.

So, the Stranger always calls the Weekly irrelevant... is that because it skews older? Or doesn't talk as much about Capitol Hill where all The Stranger staffers live?

Neither paper is perfect. Both papers should be engaged in hard-core self-examination in the Web 2.0 world of blogs. Draw a Venn diagram illustrating what you have to offer A: if I don't live tween the Montlake cut, 23rd, and I-90 and B: that I can't find through Google? Not much, not much at all.

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