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  • News

    May 2, 2012

    Washington Bullets

    Gun-rights activists cheer a recent shooting spree.

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Army Bazooka, Assault Rifles, Grenade Launchers, and Other Weapons You Might Find in Tacoma

    Five soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord are reportedly under investigation for smuggling an anti-tank weapon off the base last fall, and a bust earlier this year by the ATF targeted a group of alleged meth dealers who also peddled assault rifles and grenade launchers. Welcome to the arms bazaar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    Family Feud at Tacoma Old Country Buffet Ends In Blood, Chaos, and Wasted Food

    From the twisted world of Tacoma crime, here's a bizarre story of two families who had beef with each other. They bit off more than they could chew and a family dinner-turned knife-fight ended in chaos. Responding police officers would note "Chairs and tables turned upside down," with "food particle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Great Depression Exhibit Opens Monday at State History Museum

    The Great Depression is coming to the Washington State History Museum, offering visitors a time-capsule glimpse into the harsh, desperate 1930s. Bread lines, millions of displaced workers, political encampments, shantytowns full of single men, and hobo wanderers -- all of this and more will be on di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    It Was a Cakewalk in the House for Gay Marriage; Let's Hear What They Had to Say

    The state House, after two hours of debate that sometimes grew intense, voted 55-43 on Wednesday to make Washington the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage. The legislation now goes to Gov. Chris Gregoire, who has promised to sign it into law. She watched the House debate from the wings. "Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    The "Final Business" of Josh Powell Included Fetching Gasoline and a Hatchet

    Josh Powell carefully planned his horror show, a fiery inferno that on Sunday afternoon killed his two boys and himself and left behind shattered family members. According to The Seattle Times, the Tacoma News Tribune, and other media outlets, Powell dropped off toys and books at Goodwill over the w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Ex-Soldiers Say Lockdown at Lewis-McChord Reflects Larger Problems at Base (UPDATE: Lockdown Lifted)

    Update: The lockdown has been lifted and the Army is seeking tips from the public. More info after the jump. Soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are still on lockdown today because a cache of expensive military optics equipment went missing over the holidays, and two army vets, including one from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Randy R. Reed, Longtime Buckley City Councilman, Charged With Child Rape and Molestation

    Tacoma News-Tribune​Randy R. Reed has been a Buckley City Councilman for 18 years. Pierce County prosecutors say that for half a year of that period, he's been molesting a 7-year-old girl.

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Pierce County Sheriff, Tacoma City Council Considering Crackdown on Medical Marijuana (UPDATE)

    ​Update #2, Friday, July 29 @ 8:57 a.m.: At a city council meeting last night, Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland called for a moratorium on all new medical-marijuana businesses in the city. The city council has not yet decided how to handle dispensaries, but, according to a report today in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Salishan "Refugee Housing" Project Video Is Thoroughly Debunked

    ​Alleged doctor William Mount posted a video on YouTube in February about the Salishan housing complex in Tacoma. In the video, Mount says a bunch of scary words like the complex is "Social Security housing for foreigners" and how each of the illegal immigrants who lives there makes thousands ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Nothing to Hide: This Marijuana Dispensary's in a Shopping Center

    It doesn't get much more convenient--or for that matter, much more high-profile, at least when it comes to a medical marijuana dispensary--than Natures Resource Center. Located in Tacoma's eclectic Freighthouse Square shopping center in the Dome District, NRC opened back in January to a flurry of lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Note to Teenaged Arsonists: Don't Forget to Take the Gas Can Out of Your Backpack When You Ride Off On Your Bike

    ​Also, don't send text messages to your punk-ass friends that say "Hey . . . we should start a fire in that 1 building I told u about."

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    President Obama Likes Our Baked Goods!

    ​Listen. I'm no social critic. I can't explain the complicated ways in which we, as Americans, project all of our hopes, dreams and ugly insecurities on the guy we elect to run this joint. I am, however, qualified to get very annoyed at how obsessed I am with every little thing that President ... More >>

  • News

    July 21, 2010

    What Would Dino Do About Banking?

    Rossi's record is mixed on financial regulation.

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    Dino Rossi's Mixed Record on Bank Regulation

    ​Everybody hates big banks. That's why the banking reform bill passed by Congress last week is so popular. (It's also why a bar owner is offering free steak dinners to people who drop Chase.) So this week, in our effort to determine what kind of congressman Republican Senate-hopeful Dino Rossi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Patti Langdon's Classified Ad Reunites Her With Son She Gave Up For Adoption 43 Years Ago

    ​Patti Langdon was only 22-years-old when she got pregnant. Unmarried, her father made her give up the child for adoption because "that's how it was back then." Every April 19 for the last 43 years, Langdon, a veteran of the Tacoma News-Tribune's classifieds section, has placed the exact same ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Tacoma Black-Tar Heroin Ring Took Delivery Orders By Phone

    ​Whatever your thoughts on the War On Drugs, you can at least extract some entertainment value from some of the busts. Like the recent national crackdown on a Mexican drug-trafficking ring that ended up ensnaring 23 people in Tacoma, including an older, English-speaking mastermind whose nickna ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    The Olympian Ignores Its Own Obituaries, Turns Dead Amateur Paleontologist Into Hannibal Lecter

    If you just went by the headlines, you'd think this guy was spending his sunset years in Olympia.​After an Olympia man died in his home on February 5, a coroner coming to collect the body also found a number of unusual items, including three human skeletons, eight skulls and a decomposing, vac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Biz Journal: A Pulitzer in Effort, at Least

    A big near-win for the little PSBJ​Just after the Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday, the Seattle Times sent out a News Alert: "'Next to Normal,' a musical born at Issaquah's Village Theatre, wins the Drama Pulitzer," it said, "while the Puget Sound Business Journal is named a Pulizer fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Investigating Pam Roach's "Mooning Incident" Cost the State $32,331

    Even these kids know you don't involve the lawyers when it comes to a little bare ass.​Two years ago State Senator Pam Roach (R - Holdsagrudge) and fellow GOP'er Mike Hewitt got into it at a meeting. The argument go so heated, Roach claims that the Senate Minority Leader stuck his "clothed bac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Forecast for Washington Open Records Laws: Cloudy

    ​It's not just our city that's enshrouded with fog. Legislators in Olympia have curtailed the laws guaranteeing the public access to government documents, commonly known as "sunshine laws," and might add a few more tweaks this year. After legislators passed a bill during the last session givi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Slush Pile! Warren Moon Edition

    ​You better be on time if you want to see a movie with Warren Moon. The former Husky star quarterback, who helped beat Michigan in the 1978 Rose Bowl, is a stickler about showtimes. It's one of the few concrete, character-illuminating nuggets in his new autobiography, Never Give Up on Your Dre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Tacoma News Tribune Gets It

    You Betta' Settle The Lawsuit!!!!​Patrick O'Callahan at the Tacoma News Tribune says there's, "An easy, constitutional fix for Top Two" - our state's new election system that can't get out of legal trouble. He adds - "The obvious fix: Give voters some clue, on the ballot, that a particular can ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Ackley! Montana! The Kids Are Alright

    Nick MontanaYesterday provided a much needed infusion of young talent to Seattle sports. First, the Mariners began stocking up through the draft, using their first pick--second overall--on Dustin Ackley, a first-baseman/outfielder with good speed, whose bat has been compared to those of Wade Boggs a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2009

    Governor Says Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Transit Sponsor Rips Her for Transit Veto

    Simpson isn't afraid to dis the Gov, nor to rock the Jeff Renner lookSince cap-and-trade dide in the legislature, Christine Gregoire took matters into her own hands and signed an executive order today aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The order calls for the state Department of Ecology to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    A De-Pressing Silence for Bellingham

    Yet another newspaper's press is expected to fall silent in the state this year when the Bellingham Herald begins publishing its paper at the plant of a competitor, the Skagit Valley Herald in Mount Vernon, 30 miles south. The Bellingham paper, owned by McClatchy (which owns the Tacoma News Tribune, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2009

    The Emerging eP-I: Ideas, Anyone?

    Former Seattle Weekly and Crosscut editor Chuck Taylor, (left) has launched a new website that invites visitors to help re-imagine the P-I's web paper and how it might best serve readers. "This could land with a thud, of course, but what the hell," he says of his "Seattle Post-Post-Intelligencer" wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    PNBA Awards Announced

    The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced its 2008 honors, to be bestowed down in Portland in late March. (PNBA basically includes Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, plus sometimes Alaska and Montana.) And the envelope, please: Guernica by Dave Boling A novel about the Spanish Civil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2008

    Gov Announces Debate Schedule

    The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced its 2008 honors, to be bestowed down in Portland in late March. (PNBA basically includes Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, plus sometimes Alaska and Montana.) And the envelope, please: Guernica by Dave Boling A novel about the Spanish Civil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2008

    Cheap Eats, Traveling Abattoirs, and Other Food News

    The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced its 2008 honors, to be bestowed down in Portland in late March. (PNBA basically includes Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, plus sometimes Alaska and Montana.) And the envelope, please: Guernica by Dave Boling A novel about the Spanish Civil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2007

    Costner Watch!

    The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced its 2008 honors, to be bestowed down in Portland in late March. (PNBA basically includes Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, plus sometimes Alaska and Montana.) And the envelope, please: Guernica by Dave Boling A novel about the Spanish Civil ... More >>

  • News

    January 3, 2007

    Happy News Year

    The year in review, slightly askew.

  • News

    August 23, 2006

    Drinking & Reading

    The Blue Moon saves itself; and Bill Gates loves newsprint.

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2006

    Bill Gates, Newspaper Guy

    The Blue Moon saves itself; and Bill Gates loves newsprint.

  • News

    April 12, 2006

    Supreme Court Politics

    Plus: Another sheriff's deputy who can't be fired, and the AG helps Paul Allen keep his finances to himself.

  • News

    March 15, 2006

    A New Co-Owner for The Seattle Times

    Now in four cities, McClatchy is the most widespread newspaper chain in the state. So what happens to that minority Seattle Times stake?

  • Arts

    January 11, 2006

    Under Fire, on Deadline

    A soldier turns Iraq War blogger. Having his cover blown is as much a danger as getting blown up by an IED.

  • News

    May 4, 2005

    Media, University of Washington

    A soldier turns Iraq War blogger. Having his cover blown is as much a danger as getting blown up by an IED.

  • News

    March 2, 2005

    State Politics, Activism, The City, Media

    A soldier turns Iraq War blogger. Having his cover blown is as much a danger as getting blown up by an IED.

  • News

    December 29, 2004

    Rick Anderson's 2004

    It was the year of the Rainier Bear, the flu-vaccine 'shortage,' Ichiro, Bill O'Reilly's 'falafel thing,' and, of course, the re-recount.

  • News

    August 8, 2001

    News Clips— Tacoma candidate booked

    It was the year of the Rainier Bear, the flu-vaccine 'shortage,' Ichiro, Bill O'Reilly's 'falafel thing,' and, of course, the re-recount.

  • News

    February 28, 2001

    Send money

    It was the year of the Rainier Bear, the flu-vaccine 'shortage,' Ichiro, Bill O'Reilly's 'falafel thing,' and, of course, the re-recount.

  • News

    April 19, 2000

    The phantom anarchists

    It was the year of the Rainier Bear, the flu-vaccine 'shortage,' Ichiro, Bill O'Reilly's 'falafel thing,' and, of course, the re-recount.

  • Food

    August 19, 1998

    Mozzarella mosh pit

    Tacoma's favorite pizzeria opens shop near the Kingdome.

  • News

    August 5, 1998

    Counterflack

    Tacoma's favorite pizzeria opens shop near the Kingdome.

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    News, Inc.

    Tacoma's favorite pizzeria opens shop near the Kingdome.

  • News

    May 13, 1998

    Enough is enough

    Tacoma's favorite pizzeria opens shop near the Kingdome.

  • News

    April 8, 1998

    Biased Barkers

    Tacoma's favorite pizzeria opens shop near the Kingdome.

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