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CURSE Quest Continues
P-I's Slagle Quits
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Marlee's "Blues Kitchen"
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A sign of the times: Puget Sound's first "greenwashing" publication hit the streets last month.
It's been a fairly quiet summer for KCMU, the University of Washington radio station that has apparently stopped listening to its constituency and, as a consequence, may be going the way of the dodo bird.
Seattle P-I managing editor Kerry Slagle, the paper's second-highest news executive, surprised staffers last month when he announced he was returning to Florida to start his own publishing company.
Drawling Texan politician-turned humorous politically correct radio commentator Jim Hightower is scheduled at 5:52 am weekdays on Seattle radio station KVI 570-AM. A spokesperson for the Hightower Commentaries told the Free Press that many Seattleites eager to hear Hightower have called his Texas office complaining about the red-eye scheduling and the irregularity of the KVI broadcasts.
Marlee Walker, Puget Sound's first lady of blues radio, has left KPLU 88.5-FM, where she hosted a blues show for nine years, and has landed a new gig on KMTT 103.7-FM, "The Mountain."
The regional office of the National Labor Relations Board has refused to issue a complaint of unfair labor practices against the management of the Bellevue Journal-American (see Spike, Issue 4. Employees there belonging to the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild have been without a contract since late May, and relations between the guild and management are currently icy. New Ink
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