Jeanette Henderson
Jeanette Henderson is the Executive Director of Real Estate at the University of Washington, with 25+ years of real estate management there, and prior to that several years as in-house legal counsel for a Seattle-based developer. She is president of Pacific Real Estate Institute and past president of the Association of University Real Estate Officials. Jeanette is a graduate of University of Washington School of Law and Washington State University. She grew up in Oregon, lives in Seattle and spends some of her free time playing old time string band music, gardening, cooking, traveling, biking, and birding.
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What Corporate Free Speech Means for Yellow Pages in Seattle
There was disappointing news a couple of months ago on Seattle residents’ right to say no to yellow pages directories. As reported in the Seattle Times, the city settled a lawsuit over an enormously popular law that created an “opt-out” system for phone books.
While the newspaper headline focused on the cost of the settlement, the real story is that so many people opted out in 2011. The first year the ordinance was in effect, phone book deliveries were down by 1 million from the prior year.
People were happy to have a choice, to finally be able to say “no thanks” to phone books they didn’t want, rather than tossing them into their recycling bins. By fining directory companies who failed to comply, the city's law made choice a reality. That’s why it’s frustrating that the city gave up the fight.
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Hung Up on Phone Books
Editor’s Note: Jeanette Henderson, a member of Sightline’s board of directors, read this 2009 post on junk mail, and started noticing the ...
A Sightline director gets curious about her neighbors' yellow pages.
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