James Mitchell

"But because I made the decision not to run the account as a straight RSS feed I’ve run into a few frustrations."

"As it does so often, the technological switch came at great human cost. Gone are the press workers, truck drivers and most of the business side of the newspaper, known in the Northwest as "The P.I." A little more than 10 percent of its newsroom staff remains to compete with the Seattle Times – a somewhat larger newspaper that has its own financial woes – and the myriad other forces and sources of news that are making the traditional newspaper business model obsolete."

"United States Senator Benjamin Cardin today introduced legislation that would allow newspapers to become nonprofit organizations in what he described as "an effort to help the faltering [newspaper] industry survive."