By the mid-1980s, Tacoma’s Union Station was a sad old relic. A domed-and-vaulted masterpiece of neoclassical design when it opened in 1911, the train depot was decrepit, filthy and probably headed for a date with the wrecking ball.

The News Tribune is not in the business of rewriting history, especially not our own.

The News Tribune is in the business of selling newspapers. But what it really sells is trust and integrity.

When News Tribune reporters were ferreting out the troubled history of Tacoma Police Chief David Brame several years ago, readers didn’t get just the news stories.

When the Tacoma Daily Ledger debuted on April 7, 1883, 17 of its 28 column inches were devoted to advertisements – including one by the Tacoma Land Co.

Journalistic independence was more than a lofty ideal in 1908 when Randolph Radebaugh launched what was to become The News Tribune. It was also good business sense.

When Job Carr, Tacoma’s first white settler, postmaster and mayor, built a tiny cabin in 1865 near the shore of Commencement Bay at what is now Old Town, he had at least two things in mind.

I don’t know precisely when the concept of objectivity came into American journalism.

With paper and Web, TNT knits community into a whole

Public has a right to know how money is spent, decisions made

One hundred and five years ago, a glorious brick ruin, six stories tall, stood on a Tacoma bluff 240 feet above Commencement Bay.

The front-page headline screamed: “GAMBLING DENS ARE WIDE OPEN.”