America’s Most Literate City: Seattle!

From Reading Today:

The 2006 ranking of America’s most literate cities puts Seattle, Washington, at the top of the list for the second year in a row.

The America’s Most Literate Cities study, released in December, ranks the 70 largest cities—with populations of 250,000 and above—in the United States. Other cities at the top of the list include Minneapolis, Atlanta, Washington D.C., and St. Paul.

The study by John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, focuses on six key indicators of literacy: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources.

This is why we need both the Seattle PI AND the Seattle Times. Get it done, Tribune Company!