http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/09/tacoma-is-to-blame Comments On: Tacoma Is to Blame by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Mister G]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:41:12 -0800 The Stranger
Tacoma has basically become Spokane only with a water port and less people. At least Spokane has the excuse of being surrounded by low pop red counties and fucking Idaho as to why its a hellhole. Stop whining about media outside of your city not helping you enough and take some responsibility for fuck's sake.
Posted by Pridge Wessea]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:46:56 -0800 The Stranger
Preach it!
Posted by TacomaRoma]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:52:44 -0800 The Stranger
because what happens here affects you. Imagine for a second if Jeannie Darnielle had not won her election to the state Senate representing the 275th LD. Imagine if Jack Connely had won. This is the same man that tried to repeal the city's anti-discrimination ordinance, an avowed opponent of marriage equality and a woman's right to choose. Imagine for a second that he's one of the people deciding how this state runs.

Imagine if R74 had failed completely in Pierce County. What if this had caused it to fail statewide?

Imagine if Inslee had not won his primary in Tacoma. Would he have been seen as a viable candidate? What if he hadn't been?

Imagine what your life in Seattle would have been like with Governor Rob McKenna and Senator Connolly at the Reject 74 victory campaign on election night.

That's why you should give a fuck about Tacoma.
Posted by Tacoma Traveler]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:39:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:32:51 -0800 The Stranger
Yes, it does. You can pick a copy up any of a dozen boxes on streetcorners within a 3 block radius of my apartment downtown, and all across the rest of the city as well.

It may have the title of "Seattle's Only Paper", but it's a damn sight easier to find a copy of the Stranger lying around than it is to find any local Tacoma paper. Every cafe, bus, bar, and sandwich shop will have a discarded copy of the Stranger left behind by some reader after they've finished it lying on some bench or table.

And we really could have used some attention during the campaign season. We lost R 74 in this county by less than half a percentage point, and Prop 1 failed by less than 1 point. Inslee won the primary here but lost the general. All of these could have been won in Pierce County with a little more media attention.
Posted by Tacoma Traveler]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:16:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tiktok]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:53:15 -0800 The Stranger
None.

So fuck off. You lost the right to complain when you refused to give us the press coverage that might have helped us win the election. Bitching about it 2 months after the fact just proves how badly Seattle has jumped the shark. Now you think it's news, but at the time you couldn't have cared less. And you decided to hold HUMP! in Olympia and not Tacoma.
Posted by Tacoma Traveler]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:45:37 -0800 The Stranger
1. What's been happening to taxes in Pierce County in the past three or four years, separated by Tacoma and not-Tacoma?

2. Is Pierce and/or Tacoma being taxed for Sound Transit? If so, at what rates, through what mechanism, and have there been any increases lately?

See, Tacoma doesn't have the same population of tax-insensitive "progressive" yuppies that Seattle does. So it could well be that people there are feeling a little overloaded, especially at a time when long-term unemployment is as high as it is, and wages are stagnant at best.

But, you see, considering any of these things would require "progressives" to actually give a shit about the working class, which has never been the case in these parts, especially Seattle.
Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:41:55 -0800 The Stranger
In any case, it's a shame transit got beat up. I've ridden the buses around the poorer areas in Lakewood and Parkland quite a bit and can tell you it gets a lot of use from low-income populations. Moreso than even Downtown Seattle when Ride Free still existed, I would say.
Posted by Zachariah Bryan]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:08:07 -0800 The Stranger
The real omission in his story was that the failed measure wouldn't have merely preserved transit there but would've expanded it. The proponents overreached. They could've sought less of a tax increase and proposed maintaining the status quo, but like transit weenies everywhere, they wanted to expand the empire.


Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:06:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:01:31 -0800 The Stranger
Charles is all wet when he looks at this and says Tacoma is still at fault. He basically admitted that he entered this prejudiced against them, and seeing that he was wrong only made him seek a justification for continuing to hold his prejudgment rather than reassessing his opinion in light of the facts. It's an example of why he is just about the least credible writer The Stranger has ever employed. (Although I enjoyed Police Beat [both the column and the film] so he's got genuine writing talent going for him.)
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:45:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:04:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:01:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:51:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by K]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:23:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:16:03 -0800 The Stranger Because one expects the bulk of the voters in the country and suburbs to be stupid, to vote against their own interests...

Wait, wasn't the first part of your article about how folks in the country and suburbs don't benefit from the public transit as much? Weren't they voting in their interests, then?
Posted by madcap]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:14:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:04:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by It's another country, another culture]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:04:36 -0800 The Stranger
this is the exact same argument the right uses, chuckles. they have to save us liberals from ourselves, 'cuz weeze so stupid.

and, much like you, they are the true idiots.
Posted by tainte]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:03:59 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:00:53 -0800 The Stranger Posted by rileysweeney]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:57:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Don't you think he looks tired?]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:54:25 -0800 The Stranger