Tacoma Weekly
''Tacoma Weekly'' is a weekly community newspaper published by Pierce County Community Newspaper Group (PCCNG). The paper started in 1987 as the ''Tacoma Monthly'' and in 1994 became the ''Tacoma Weekly''. The free newspaper is distributed on Thursdays to hundreds of businesses and public spaces in the Tacoma area. It has used a broadsheet format since 2001. Controversies In a recent two-year period, publisher John Weymer paid $9,157.06 in wage theft claims that were filed against him at the Washington Department of Labor and Industries. Since 1995, Weymer has accumulated over $170,000 in judgements against himself and his business. In 2019, a judge ruled Weymer owed $5,000 to the Grand Cinema after failing to deliver a printing job the cinema paid for. In September 2021, Tacoma Weekly was fined $15,000 for offering political candidates a news story or endorsement from the paper in exchange for money. The Washington State Public Disclosure Commission The Washington State Publi ...
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 1 ...
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Broadsheet
A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long Vertical and horizontal, vertical pages, typically of . Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner (format), Berliner and Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid–Compact (newspaper), compact formats. Description Many broadsheets measure roughly per full broadsheet spread, twice the size of a standard tabloid. Australians, Australian and New Zealand broadsheets always have a paper size of ISO 216, A1 per spread (). South Africa, South African broadsheet newspapers have a double-page spread sheet size of (single-page live print area of 380 x 545 mm). Others measure 22 in (560 mm) vertically. In the United States, the traditional dimensions for the front page half of a broadsheet are wide by long. However, in efforts to save newsprint costs, many U.S. newspapers have downsized to wide by long for a folded page. Many rate cards and specification cards refer to the "broadsheet size ...
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Pierce County Community Newspaper Group
The Pierce County Community Newspaper Group (PCCNG) consists of four newspapers in the Tacoma, Washington area. The papers include the ''Tacoma Weekly'' (formerly the ''Tacoma Monthly''), the ''Fife Free Press,'' and the ''Milton-Edgewood Signal.'' The ''Tacoma Monthly'' began in 1987 and became a weekly paper in 1994. It is distributed around Tacoma. The ''Fife Free Press'' began in August 2003 and is published every other Thursday. It is distributed in Fife and is mailed to every business and residential address within the city limits. The ''Milton-Edgewood Signal'' began in January 2004 and is published every other Thursday. It is distributed to Milton, Washington and Edgewood, Washington. The publisher of the Pierce County Community Newspaper Group is John Weymer. In a recent two-year period, publisher John Weymer paid $9,157.06 in wage theft Wage theft is the failing to pay wages or provide employee benefits owed to an employee by contract or law. It can be conducted by e ...
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Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, Washington, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The city's population was 219,346 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the List of municipalities in Washington, third-largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region, which has a population of about 1 million. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, called wikt:Tacoma, təˡqʷuʔbəʔ in the Lushootseed, Puget Sound Salish dialect. It is locally known as the "City of Destiny" because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacoma's neighboring deep-wat ...
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Washington State Public Disclosure Commission
The Washington State Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) is an agency of the Washington state government that regulates candidates, campaigns and lobbyists. It enforces the state's disclosure and campaign finances laws, and provides public access to information about lobbying activities, the financial affairs of elected and appointed public officials, and campaign contribution Campaign finance, also known as election finance or political donations, refers to the funds raised to promote candidates, political parties, or policy initiatives and referendums. Political parties, charitable organizations, and political ...s and expenditures. Voters authorized the creation of the PDC in 1972 with the passage of Initiative 276, which declared that “The public’s right to know of the financing of political campaigns and lobbying and the financial affairs of elected officials and candidates far outweighs any right that these matters remain secret and private.” Opponents called I ...
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Crosscut
Crosscut may refer to: * Crosscut.com, an online newspaper in Seattle * Crosscut Peak, a mountain peak in Antarctica * Crosscut Point, a rocky point in the South Sandwich Islands * CrossCut Records, a German record company * A type of saw cut, more commonly spelled "cross cut", made by a crosscut saw See also * Cross cut (other) Cross-cut, cross cut or cross-cutting may refer to: *Cross-cutting, a film editing technique *Cross-cutting concern, a concept in aspect-oriented software development *Cross-cutting cleavage, a political term * A cut made by a crosscut saw A ...

Newspapers Published In Washington (state)
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century ...
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Weekly Newspapers Published In The United States
Weekly, The Weekly, or variations, may refer to: News media * ''Weekly'' (news magazine), an English-language national news magazine published in Mauritius *Weekly newspaper, any newspaper published on a weekly schedule *Alternative newspaper, also known as ''alternative weekly'', a newspaper with magazine-style feature stories *''The Weekly with Charlie Pickering'', an Australian satirical news program *''The Weekly with Wendy Mesley'', a Canadian Sunday morning news talk show *''The Weekly'', the original name of the television documentary series ''The New York Times Presents'' Other *Weekley, a village in Northamptonshire, UK *Weeekly, a South Korean girl-group See also * *Weekly News (other) *Weekley (surname) Weekley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Boo Weekley (born 1973), American professional golfer * Ernest Weekley (1865–1954), British philologist * Frieda Weekley (1879–1956), German translator * Jim Weekley James F. ...