Month: February 2015

Ballard’s Marceau Pipe Organ Builders is the soul of the neighborhood and we should not forget it

February 13, 2015

Poke around just a little bit in my Seattle neighborhood, and you will be surprised at what you discover. That was my first impression when we stepped inside the cramped and busy workshop at Marceau Pipe Organ Builders in Ballard. The owner, Rene Marceau, was happy …

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In Miami, a sun-baked mecca of American journalism is reduced to rubble

February 5, 2015

I couldn’t think of a more concrete (and rubble) symbol of today’s financially struggling newspaper industry. Even metro dailies that had the swagger of the Miami Herald can no longer afford waterfront addresses. 

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