Pity the people of Eatonville and other lonely places under the bosom of Mount Rainier. As if they didn’t feel forsaken enough, waiting for their town to go bankrupt or a lahar to sweep them away, now they’re adrift in political limbo.
Dust off your ancestors’ cannonballs. Call those kooky relatives who pretend to be Confederate soldiers in Civil War reenactments at Fort Steilacoom Park. You might need their help – and their bayonets.
His thirst for power wasn’t slaked when he became Pierce County prosecutor in 2009. Nor when he was named chairman of the 2012-13 United Way campaign. Not even when he got to help pick the queen for last spring’s Daffodil Festival.
Congrats, Upper Left Coast voters! The last two general elections have put Washington squarely on the national radar, first with our looser liquor laws and now with our legalized loco lettuce.
Deadbeats who vote only in presidential elections really chap our hide, like a seasonal rash on the buttocks of the body politic.
That Justin Bieber fella sure is leaving a trail of stink on his world tour.
In a City Hall brimming with traditional suit-and-tie guys, Tacoma City Councilman David Boe refuses to be buttoned down. The architect-about-town is a fashion-forward fellow.
In a perfect world, a Tacoman’s appearance on a nationally syndicated game show with 25 million weekly viewers would provide T-Town a moment in the sun. A tourism boost. Fifteen minutes of fame, give or take, after commercials are subtracted.
Better stay alert and guard your innards Saturday when a shambling, insatiable horde of the living dead descends on the Dome District for the 2012 Tacoma Zombpocalypse.
Not even Halloween yet and the skeletons are already slipping out of the closet.
Oh, the horror of the cellphone pocket dial – the secrets that have been spilled, the positions that have been compromised, the marriages and governments that have crumbled.
We’ve always known TCC as the University of 19th and Mildred. A shining beacon of scholarship with the global clout that comes from being across the street from an International House of Pancakes.
Between the nail-biting suspense of the primary election and the excitement of the summer Olympics, we completely missed a drop-in visit by a VIP in Tacoma early this month.
Funny how times are changing, and society has loosened up when it comes to selling its soul to the corporate devil.
He came, he saw, he waved, he smiled. He shook outstretched hands. He took from outstretched hands. He talked about ordinary Americans getting a fair shake and a dirt-cheap hot dog at Costco.
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