Had social distancing measures begun a week earlier, 36,000 lives could have been saved, according to Columbia University researchers. Instituting measures two weeks earlier would have spared more than 80 percent of the cases and deaths, their research suggests.
There was a time when newspapers were the only show in town if someone wanted to air their grievances against city government, their Congressman, or even the local editor.
Over the course of 52 years at the Seattle Times, 39 as publisher, I thought I had seen it all in terms of big stories and damaging crises.
To the graduates of the Class of 2020, please accept our sincere apology. This is not the ending you could have possibly imagined to your senior year.
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