Seattle PI on the Artistic and New Tacoma
The Seattle PI has a story this morning on the emerging arts scene in Tacoma that focuses a fair bit on living in Tacoma. It has its own fair bit of sweeping exaggeration and stereotypes, but it also does a nice job highlighting some pretty cool new projects around town. Several quotes sound like things we’ve talked about on Exit133.
It’s easy, living in Tacoma, to get impatient. To want to lie down and sleep and wake up magically zipped along to a Tacoma that’s really made it. But made it where? “I’m not sure exactly where Tacoma’s going,” says Adkins. “For me, it’s the getting there that’s fun.”
Link to the Seattle PI
5 comments
C Christine January 20, 2012
Check the records. That uphill neighbor files complaints one everything! Sun shining? Raining? Too many or too few rollerbladers? She complains. I think it’s her hobby.
D D January 20, 2012
I can’t see how this would be feasible. If the fire department was a privately run business, no one in their right mind would choose such a high dollar location when there’s abundant real estate all
around us sitting vacant that is
far less expensive and
additionally probably much
more centrally located to
service more residents. How
could it be argued that this
location could possibly be
logical on any level? When
the economy went sour all
these government/public sector
people continued to sit around and do nothing (if you’ve ever
stepped foot into any
government office or public
entity and dealt with some
smug bureaucrat who could
care less whether they do
anything to help anyone-just
give them their paycheck,
mandatory breaks, personal
days, vacations, overtime, and
mental health days and leave
them alone!) and acted like business people both big and small were the enemy. I love it, now that they’re loosing their jobs they are finally figuring out that without the American spirit to start and grow businesses, they have no revenue to continue their wasteful, inefficient, loathsome public disservice “jobs”. These people need to take their licks like everyone else, and figure out how to make good decisions in bad times. Wake up and smell the low tide ! I can smell something funky!
J Jenny Jenkins January 20, 2012
Whether you agree with continuing the plans or not, it seems like a bit of a leap to go straight to being gleeful over people losing their jobs.
Also, I’m pretty sure using the phrase “these people” always advances the conversation in a positive direction.
D D January 20, 2012
Yeah not sayin I want them to lose jobs. Make smart decisions. That’s what I’m saying, and treat your job like a business. Also, these people,direct reference to the subject. You must have taken your sensitivity training class recently at your government job.
C Christine January 20, 2012
I think the high dollar location has something to do with the fact that it is hard to dock a boat anywhere other than on the water.