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The Seattle PostGlobe's recent plea for funding very nearly reads like a script produced for an NPR pledge drive, minus all the cool giveaways. Free swag aside, the news site has re-sounded the alarm, reporting they have only one week of funding remaining in their reserves...and leaving us to wonder whether this time next week we will have to ask what the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ex-pats will be doing post-PostGlobe?

"out of paper" by Kurt Schlosser, from the Seattlest Flickr pool

The limping remnant of the once-mighty P-I has a piece of good news out of Philadelphia, where a local animal rights group says they're going to skip Foie Gras week (starts today, didn't ya know) because "picketing isn't effective." Are you listening, Northwest Animal Rights Network?

Story looks harmless enough: local entrepreneurs use an exotic sweetener to flavor their line of diet soda. That's the line Pee Eye reporter Andrea James swallowed in her piece today about a local brand of soda called Zevia.

We're no prude, but we have to admit to being a wee bit (okay a lot) shocked to see the following banner ad attached to a local news story on the Seattle P-I's site.

The Seattle P-I—that liberal bastion of Seattle daily newspapers—has a very important question on which they want your opinion: Miss Universe contests in their swimsuits--hot or not?

With the ever-increasing cost of gas, the Seattle P-I seems to have taken an extra keen interest in public transit. A quick perusal of the local news on the P-I's site found more stories about taking the bus than any other topic in the local news. It sounds like an exaggeration, but these were all headlines for different stories, from the same day.