That newspaper tax-break bill that Christine Gregoire pushed for and signed has made her a hero to the newspaper industry, reports the Daily Beast in this laudatory article:There are no ink stains on Chris Gregoire’s power suits, but maybe she deserves a Pulitzer Prize for excellence in journalism anyway. With the stroke of her pen this week, the 62-year-old governor of Washington has done more to save her state’s struggling newspaper business than two dozen genius publishers–and she just might have started a national trend. The article also details her disappointment in the disappearance of the P-I (“Absolutely I miss it… [Now] [w]hen you go in their building, I tell you, it is heart-wrenching”) and her middle-school dalliance with journalism, when she ran a paper that found itself in hot water with an administration that was worried about public displays of affection at school dances.
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