Thanks very much.

I’ll check with the developer and see what the story is, because there’s obviously nothing being built there. I know they bought property and went through the permitting process around the end of last year, so let me research it and find out what happened. There was a building started there that looked like Walgreen’s-style architecture, but is now something else, so I’m not sure what the deal is.
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A couple of other things that may be of interest… Target has pulled its horns back nationwide, and won’t be developing the site at Sedgwick and Sidney it took the option on at this point. I know the developer has shown it to another local developer looking for a site that size last week, but nothing has materialized as far as I know. There are a couple of other big box retailers who were considering locating there along with Target that are still interested in the
location, so who knows where it will go? Another developer also told me this past week that Target is considering a location on Bethel, but the original developer says if they go anywhere it will be Sedgwick and Sidney. Go figure…
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Multicare is still committed to enlarging its footprint there, but has slowed the pace of expansion due to the economy. Wal-Mart is rumored to be looking at the intersection for a possible Sam’s Club now that Costco has apparently decided that its Gig Harbor outlet is sufficient to service SK customers, but no one has signed anything I’m aware of.
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However, with the slowdown in the economy, coupled with the fact we have just about completed the Comp Plan effort and have a couple of other internal projects wrapping up, this could be a good time to kick of the master planning project. I’ll let you know more as it develops.
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LFC
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Opposition is usually welcome when core beliefs are similar. But I don’t think I’ll ever get used to people using a forum supported by the very people they condemn and complain about.

Not me.

Who said I am a “conservative”, Elliot?

And, Sharon, fortunately neither you – nor the Kitsap Sun – can “toss” people off the forum for expressing views contrary to the “newspaper’s”. Opposition isn’t illegal. Yet. Beware, though, what you advocate. One day you might find yourself in the minority and bemoaning the tyranny of the majority (or at least, the “establishment”) that you currently – apparently – enjoy.

The fact is ‘newscasters’ is a outdated, invalid word these days. Edward R. Murrow was a ‘newscaster, a reporter of news’ but he and newscasters like him died.

The very fact you are allowed to post your intention of starting another daily in direct competition with the Bremerton Sun boldly states they are a unbiased NEWSpaper as they have been for over one hundred years.

I would have tossed you so far off the page the print couldn’t catch up.

If a government is supposed to be by and for the people, why is government your enemy and a newspaper expected to ? You elected them. Remember?

I just googled for something, spotted a blurb that looked interesting and clicked at it.
I’m not sure this is the place to make a comment on one of the silliest ‘articles’ I’ve just stumbled across by a writer who had nothing to say but took four columns to say it. All sniping, gossipy, speculative comments reminding me that not all adults grow beyond childhood nonsense.

He/she had nothing to say about an outstanding procucing soccer coach but filled the page with nothing. I’m guessing such writers aren’t paid but question that anyone would waste the time to read another piece.

Thank you Kitsap Sun Reporters and staff! I’ve been reminded that all things are NOT equal but the quality and professionalism of the writing and reporting of KS reporters cannot be duplicated.
Sharon O’Hara

I thought that the idea of government subsidies was considered to be “socialism” by conservatives?

I would subsidize start-up costs, or offer another incentive up-front, for another news agency to locate here.

Do you think subsidized businesses are, necessarily, politicized by that subsidy?

So you must REALLY object to Fox News then, eh? For the last eight years, they’ve been acting “as propagandist FOR government”.

You said:

I – as a taxpayer – would prefer recruiting and, if need be, subsidizing the startup of a new daily newspaper.

You’re contradicitng yourself. On the one hand, you want the press to “to provide checks and balances AGAINST government”, and on the other hand you want the government to subsidze the press? Please explain how a press that’s bought and paid for (“subsidized”) by the government will be able “to provide checks and balances AGAINST government”.

I believe the role of the press is to serve as the fourth estate, to provide checks and balances AGAINST government. And I believe the Sun has abandoned that responsibility. They either “miss” stories of import (like the Port tax increase) or they slant their “reporting” (almost exclusively to one side). Frequently they serve – practically – as propagandist FOR government. Bottom line is they cannot be counted on to be the people’s eyes and ears. Certainly not in an objective manner. Rather than subsidize green think tanks (SEED), I – as a taxpayer – would prefer recruiting and, if need be, subsidizing the startup of a new daily newspaper.