The impending demise of Olympia's press houses
State to sell home of shrunken statehouse press corps, relocate remaining reporters
Buried on page 85 of the 376-page capital budget the House passed unanimously1 last week is a dry proviso rich with symbolic meaning about the state of news coverage of Washington State government:
“…The department may sell by auction the Ayers and Carlyon houses, known as the press houses, separate and apart from the underlying land…”
The houses in ques…
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