Sad news from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer today — Tuesday is the last print edition for Seattle’s oldest newspaper. After 146 proud years of operation as a preeminent voice in Northwest journalism, the P-I is packing it in as a “dead-tree” newspaper and will become an online-only voice, at seattlepi.com.

The P-I  has always been must-reading at the state Capitol and its reporting staff has always been vigorous and creative in covering Under the Dome. The print version will be sorely missed here — and we hope and trust that The Seattle Times hangs in there. We don’t want Seattle to have the distinction of being the largest major city without a daily print newspaper.

The Capitol newsies and P-I alumni will hoist a few Tuesday after work — a sort of Irish wake.

(Photo credit: Phil H. Webber, Seattle P-I)