The signs are getting stronger that the P-I is going to be starting an online-only news venture after they stop printing the paper. Now there’s a list of the 18 P-I staffers who will have jobs at the new site, which seems to have been assembled by a P-I reporter walking around the newsroom and asking everyone “were you offered a job?” Everyone, of course, said “No Comment”, but that set them apart from the others who simply said “No.” One wonders if the reporter himself was offered a job, and is trying to see who he’ll be working with.

How often do you see a news article investigating its own newsroom?

I don’t have the time right now to properly research or write this, but this is one of those shocking examples of willful destruction of history that you’d think we wouldn’t have to see anymore, but still do. The sailing ship Wawona, which has been sitting at South lake Union for many years, has been hauled off to be dismantled. The 110+-year-old ship has been a floating museum in Seattle for a long time, but has always needed money to keep it up and protect it, and the money has never been there. Time has made supposedly it unsafe, plus it’s being kicked out of its berth for construction on Lake Union Park, so it’s headed for the scrap heap.

I’ve never even seen the Wawona in person, and this still makes me sad. Look for more reporting from the P-I and Crosscut.

Chuck Taylor reports that the Washington State Ferries have been removing historic photos from the walls of their boats and using the space for ads.