Hard workin’ man: At 83, Dan Rather is still is on the job, having launched a production company called News &Guts.
Rather also has shut down his newsmagazine show on the obscure HDNet channel. As he might say, the audience for “Dan Rather Reports” was smaller than a Texas tick in a one-dog town.
Freeway ‘toon: The Washington State Department of Transportation has made an animated video intended to show what commutes on I-405 will be like after the express toll lanes open this fall from Lynnwood to Bellevue.
They’d also do a video about the northbound I-5 commute through Everett, but that would be the most depressing cartoon ever made.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue — beginning a smallpox virus-laden voyage that would take him to the Americas.
Hey, Leif Ericson discovered America about 500 years before Columbus’ voyage. But we’ll leave that argument to a very special open-bar joint gathering of the Sons of Norway and the Sons of Italy.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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