Fred Obee
Fred Obee is a long-time journalist at weekly and small daily newspapers in the Pacific Northwest, including the Port Townsend Leader, where he was a reporter and ultimately the general manager. He resides in Port Townsend.
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Spiders are Special
Spider Web Colors
Lasers? Northern Lights? Woven belts? No, this is a spider web. Lately I’ve been fascinated with one of the eight-legged arachnids—...
Twenty-nine years: American decimation of whales and the Makah permitting process
You may have heard that the US government will now allow the Makah Tribe to hunt whales again.
Not quite.
The US will now allow the...
Going nuclear: The high school mascot of mass destruction
Editor's note: With the launch of Oppenheimer, we are once again reminded of the legacy of the atomic bomb, and of the people and...
On the hard: Thea Foss
From Classic Yachts to Fish Packers: Their Stories
Movie Stars, Depth Charges and Tugboat Annie: The Story of the Thea Foss
I still can't think of...
Where’s my Glass of Wine? And What Does Housing Have to Do With It?
I recently went out for dinner with a neighbor, a part-time, mostly-here-in-the-summer- kind of neighbor. He teaches at a university, leads research, and publishes...
