In November, Pierce County Candidates will be asking you to vote for them.
But what do we know about them? Will they do anything to help the many needs Tacoma has?
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If elected which candidate can obtain something meaningful like reduce suburban sprawl, help to rebuild Tacoma and reduce the disproportionate number of felons being place [...]
Downtown
Which Pierce County Candidates Can Help Tacoma?
August 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments
The Tacoma Armchair Approach to Cleaning Up Your Neighborhood
February 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments
By Erik Bjornson
After the Tacoma Mall moved into Tacoma in 1968, much of downtown and neighborhood business centers suffered neglect and some were nearly abandoned in their entirety. The city likely struck its all time low point around the late 1970s and early 1980s (Stephen Cysewski made his infamous photo tour of downtown [...]
Tacoma Underground: Never Never Land Figures
February 15th, 2008 · 22 Comments

Imagine walking into a dank dark basement in a 110 year old building downtown and turning on the lights to find this eerie and surreal scene. That’s what happened to me recently while working on an interview for a Sun story.
Small Worlds Theory and Livable Downtown
January 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Nerd Blog: Small Worlds Theory and Livable Downtown
By Paul Sparks
Part One: Short, quircky, amateur commentaries on “Small Worlds Theory” and its relationship to the “Livable Community” of Downtown Tacoma.
What is “Small Worlds”?
Small worlds is a theory of maximum connectivity. It describes a real world phenomenon found in all types of effective communicative systems (the [...]
Half Moon Yard
December 4th, 2007 · 7 Comments
Its Time for Tacoma to Repair its Maimed Streetscape By Rebuilding the North Park Plaza Parking Garage
November 2nd, 2007 · 10 Comments

Perhaps no other action by the City of Tacoma has caused so much long term damage to the downtown streetscape as much as the construction of the North and South Plaza Parking garages.


