tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post841731815460649660..comments2023-09-23T08:26:38.233-07:00Comments on Port Angeles Unearthed: The Peninsula Daily News: A Weakly Paper, Getting Weaker and WeakerCrypt Kickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560627730845451894noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-57610986908477076582016-08-10T05:19:47.502-07:002016-08-10T05:19:47.502-07:00It is noted that the program at the Peninsula Dail...It is noted that the program at the Peninsula Daily News continues: "New" look with fewer and fewer new news stories each day. Media - all media - is based on providing content. I guess the PDN is trying to see if they can be a nearly content-free media outlet and survive. Crypt Kickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04560627730845451894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-72549652306242535122016-08-09T20:04:27.235-07:002016-08-09T20:04:27.235-07:00You sir/madam have hit the big one. This is the b...You sir/madam have hit the big one. This is the best idea floated in a long time. Let's talk it up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-66893602449658223922016-08-09T09:14:16.442-07:002016-08-09T09:14:16.442-07:00We know the weather and climate patterns are chang... We know the weather and climate patterns are changing, and that trend is toward "hotter and drier". The glaciers that made water available in the summer and late summer seasons have all but melted away, because of this same "hotter and drier" trend. <br /><br /> Water storage, and building cisterns for individual houses could be a new business on the Peninsula, employing quite a few people. Having on-site water storage has a lot of advantages over one big centralized reservoir. The many tens of millions (if not hundreds of millions) that will be needed to build a reservoirs that actually could fill the needs of county residents could be instead used to subsidize individual storage cisterns.<br /><br /> Local business, creating local jobs. People have relied upon cisterns for their household water, all over the world, for centuries. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-28414775161357318822016-08-09T08:20:10.053-07:002016-08-09T08:20:10.053-07:00Port Angeles has an extra 60 million gallons of re...Port Angeles has an extra 60 million gallons of reservoir capacity already built at no local cost. The Elwha Water Treatment Plant to be gifted by the feds includes four shiny 15-million gallon tanks. (Each one three times bigger than Cutler's Turd Tank, by comparison.)<br />Residential and commercial water customers consume less than 3 million gallons a day. <br />Use the Elwha storage tanks and Voila! Even without imposing any measures to conserve water, the city would have at least a 20 day water supply in reserve. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-11302391125800600302016-08-08T16:58:13.236-07:002016-08-08T16:58:13.236-07:00We're looking better than last year. At 500 CF...We're looking better than last year. At 500 CFS right now vs 300 this time last year.<br /><br />Nevertheless, Jefferson County and Sequim are building or at least planning reservoirs, why aren't we?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-88130869271960862262016-08-08T12:58:30.878-07:002016-08-08T12:58:30.878-07:00This is exactly how Ward operates. He did the sam...This is exactly how Ward operates. He did the same in Arkansas and Indiana before arriving here in Port Angeles. His modus operandi seems to be to fire all those easy to fire and make the workplace inhospitable to those whom he cannot just fire. Half the people in his Arkansas stint got fired and another third walked out and some got better jobs once he made it known they had no future with him. If there is one thing we can do to improve the economic climate in this county it is to prevail upon the county commissioners to quit funding this entrenched bunch of elitist who people the EDC. If their 100 plus members cannot fund the organization then they are not worth funding by the taxpayers. You can make your voice heard by the county commissioners by emailing them at the following addresses. In the subject line be sure to put "correspondence" so it gets into the official record. The commissioners' email are: mozias@co.clallam.wa.us, mchapman@co.clallam.wa.us, bpeach@co.clallam.wa.usAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-21719522496172220172016-08-08T11:20:38.233-07:002016-08-08T11:20:38.233-07:00Did the Port re-do the lease for Platypus yet? Sou...Did the Port re-do the lease for Platypus yet? Sounded pretty dire the last time it was discussed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-2817150066686138152016-08-08T09:35:46.153-07:002016-08-08T09:35:46.153-07:00The city and the Feds are sparring over who will r...The city and the Feds are sparring over who will run the water plant and no one is asking where the water will come from once the snow pack is melted. October rains may be a long way off...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-28243212863838358832016-08-08T04:47:21.235-07:002016-08-08T04:47:21.235-07:00Looks like the city got the feds to keep our water...Looks like the city got the feds to keep our water flowing, at least temporarily. Still, the city's going to have to step up eventually, which will blast their budget, and (probably) cause our utility rates to go up - again. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-48025570704569161302016-08-07T20:01:15.547-07:002016-08-07T20:01:15.547-07:00Seeing the sad shape the Peninsula Daily News is i...Seeing the sad shape the Peninsula Daily News is in...It makes me smile whenever I see that someone has landed here on this blog after searching for them...Crypt Kickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04560627730845451894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-19299917684612624212016-08-07T17:48:12.280-07:002016-08-07T17:48:12.280-07:00Downie looked even more cadaverous in the latest p...Downie looked even more cadaverous in the latest photo. Poor guy doesn't look like he has long to go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-21117509686265303382016-08-07T17:32:12.025-07:002016-08-07T17:32:12.025-07:00It won't go away, but fade and fade until it i...It won't go away, but fade and fade until it is merges with Little Nickel Classifieds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-40113457637749556932016-08-07T17:31:06.168-07:002016-08-07T17:31:06.168-07:0012:45 a little early to be drinking to the point o...12:45 a little early to be drinking to the point of incoherence, isn't it? Or, are you always like that? Better to stay drunk that be part of the thinking world, right? <br /> What's that old chestnut: "drink up me hearties, yo ho!" Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-17947886580432303862016-08-07T12:45:30.906-07:002016-08-07T12:45:30.906-07:00Yah ... that's good that you threw that in. On...Yah ... that's good that you threw that in. One always wonders about the dog that did not bark in the night. One never knows, do one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-46544453692699844012016-08-07T11:11:42.874-07:002016-08-07T11:11:42.874-07:00My apologies (of a sort) to the sorry PDN. I forgo...My apologies (of a sort) to the sorry PDN. I forgot to include the story about Marolee dropping her ethics complaint, which makes for a total of about two-and-a-half newish "stories" in today's Peninsula Daily News.<br /><br />I didn't really see it at first, because I was already so trained to see that damned Pat Downie article they had heading things up for days and days, and because this was already old news to most of us. <br /><br />So, sorry, PDN, but you're still much sorrier. Crypt Kickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04560627730845451894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-24216548613131263962016-08-07T09:11:00.703-07:002016-08-07T09:11:00.703-07:00The PDN won't go away. It will be here for a l...The PDN won't go away. It will be here for a long time to come.<br /><br /> Having said that, let me also say that the "new and improved" PDN will just be a vehicle for ads from the Home Depot, Walmart, etc. The chain stores that have big advertising budgets, and no local commitments. Those stores just go along, refining their mission: make money.<br /><br /> The model you see now, few stories, lots of ads, is what it is going to be from now on out. Other Black Press community papers don't have subscriptions, and are distributed to every doorstep. They want those ads in your face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-65372405372639909022016-08-07T07:32:11.995-07:002016-08-07T07:32:11.995-07:00When the Peninsula Daily News finally goes under, ...When the Peninsula Daily News finally goes under, it won't make any difference to the distribution of local news here. Not a bit. It hasn't been a source of real or accurate information for many years.<br /><br />Let it die, and let's buy an ad in the POC to celebrate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071606563611538039.post-39880209188841919242016-08-07T07:26:27.156-07:002016-08-07T07:26:27.156-07:00PDN is but one of several dozen corporate owned pr...PDN is but one of several dozen corporate owned properties owned by David Black of Black Press in Victoria, BC. Black is easily compared to the Koch Brothers. He has many of the same interests as the Koch Brothers when it comes to fossil fuel and tanker cars and pipelines of crude oil transport. All of this spun out of his newspaper holdings. I do not think David Black gives a shit about what happens in Port Angeles and cares even less about what gets reported. As long as the ad revenue is up all is well with the Black boys. That means the censorship and obfuscation of local scandals center on the publisher in charge. Terry Ward made a short presence here, like a stone skipped on the water, before going on to bigger and better things for Black Press. His actual job is the "Axe Man" for Black Press in the Puget Sound area. He put his advertising man in charge of the day to day affairs at PDN and went round the corner getting rid of people that have been with Black Press long enough to make a decent living. Getting rid of these experienced staff will improve the bottom line and that is all the Koch/Black boys want to see.<br />Notice a constant "help wanted" ad in the PDN seeking reporters. There is no growth so who do you think will get the axe? Terry Ward in his current form is a totally reprehensible individual spreading fear and loathing where ever he goes. That is between him and David Black. It becomes our issue when the PDN attempts to influence political decisions on this side of the water. Take for instance the PDN's constant fawning over the EDC, of which Terry Ward is a member. This is all set to stampede the county commissioners to write another fat check to the EDC so they can continue to stifle competition and reduce wages--just as Terry Ward is doing at the PDN. If the EDC's biggest cheerleader is grinding its people into the ground what are the other less visible EDC members doing to keep wages low and competition out?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com