Tahoma Organizer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tricia DeOme Phone: 253-267-2114 Date:  November 4, 2011 Rally Against Wal-Mart at South 23rd Street and Union Avenue, Tacoma Letting Wal-mart know they are not wanted in our community Tacoma, WA – If you have not heard, Walmart is planning to construct a Super Wal-mart (150,000 square feet, single story building [...]

Tacoma, awake! A predator is in our midst. On August 31, 2011, Wal-Mart confirmed their intention to buy and develop an 18 acre parcel where the current Tacoma Local Elks Lodge resides at S. 23rd and Union.  Wal-Mart’s plans for the site include a 150,000 square foot (nearly 4 acres!) “supercenter”, with all the required [...]

Tacoma’s Central Neighborhood Council Opposes the development at the Elks Lodge Site Tacoma, WA – Tacoma Central Neighborhood Council in the Heart of Tacoma unanimously passed during their September 1st monthly meeting a resolution opposing large scale retail development at the Elks Lodge property located on the corner of S. 23rd Street and Union Avenue. [...]

For years and years, many concerned people tried to warn the Pierce County government that if they did not stop this terrible break-neck speed practice of covering every inch of land with shoddy, crowded housing development, it could become the Future Slums of America.  The deliberate plan was to build out the outer reaches first [...]

The Gig Harbor Peninsula is just that, a peninsula; surrounded by Puget Sound seawater.  Puget Sound is not limited to the shorelines; it is intimately connected to a multitude of rivers and streams that extend away from the sound and even to the mountains. The Eastern quarter of the Gig Harbor Peninsula is a watershed [...]

I, for one, wish Democrats would admit there is a third (oh, wait…fourth?) American war going on. Conservatives vs. Liberals.   Us versus Them.   Yes.  It is that black and white, my brainy, conscientious-objector friends.  Get the hell over it.  In fact, please embrace it with clenched fists. As a Texas-Indiana-Idaho-North Carolina Democrat, I’ve taken more [...]

While watching the Pierce County EIDC meeting of 6/28, in discussion about our contaminated water and all the reasons for not cleaning it up,  I heard all the same rhetoric yet again, ad nauseam – no-one wants to actually enforce anything, it costs too much to enforce, too much to have enforcement officers, too much [...]

Pierce County Parks and Recreation is accepting applications to fill two vacancies on its Citizens Advisory Board. Terms are four years. Serving on the board is a great volunteer opportunity for residents concerned about the future of our parks and recreation programs. The nine-member board meets monthly on the third Tuesday to advise the department [...]

Although more women are joining the military than ever before and some are seeing combat, women’s primary role, as far as the military is concerned, is patriotic. Not just any kind of patriotism is expected of women; they are expected to eagerly send their sons and husbands and lovers and partners and fathers off to [...]

  Jim McDermott: Traitor Congressman Jim McDermott omitted the phrase “under God” when he led the House of Representatives in the Pledge of Allegiance recently. For that he was excoriated by Republicans, chastised even by the Democrats, and now he is being called a “traitor” by Hans Zeiger, fascist-in-residence for the Boy Scouts of America.