Castro on the cover

Breezing, through today's West Coast newspapers dominated by headlines -- on beef recall, Pakistan elections, the Clinton/Obama race and what's up in Kosovo -- you wouldn't know the biggest story of the day: Fidel Castro handed the reins over to little brother Raul in the middle of the night.

Unless of course, you were reading one of these papers:


Kudos to the Pacific Time Zone papers that made what must have been a very late deadline switch. You can see major Northwest newspapers here.

It must be noted that the Seattle P-I got in a summary-refer in its front page rail, as well.

I'll be looking forward to seeing how other newspapers treat the retirement of Cuba's president after nearly half a century in power.