Recently, the fake interview craze has hit the Federal Way area with both God and Dr. Phil appearing in print….
Sustainability has become a hot word among cities and counties across the nation. While the concept has been around for…
Trees in the city — any city — have got it hard. If an urban tree is lucky enough to…
You can stop the e-mails, phone calls, text messages and smoke signals to The Mirror: I’m back. As many of…
Last Saturday night, I had the chance to get together with 200 of my closest friends to celebrate Hylebos Creek conservation successes.
Earlier this summer, while driving over the I-90 pass on my way to Idaho (another soccer tournament, natch), I was reminded again of our region’s natural beauty.
Last week, I wrote about Federal Way natives that have stayed here and are helping build a better community in the F-Dub.
Federal Way is often referred to as a mobile community — a rootless suburb where residents, not wedded to the community by family or historical ties, come and go as jobs and other factors influence them.
Spokane is well known for its competitive nature.
For years, the lilac city has jousted with Tacoma over claim to the title of Washington’s second-largest city. For a while, Tacoma had the lead and proudly proclaimed it, only to be surpassed again by Spokane — which somehow found a few more bodies. While no funny business has been proved, some suspected Spokaners of Chicago-style census tactics.
Trying to do the right thing for the environment is not always a bowl of organic cherries.
Eight nights ago, shots rang out at Lakota Middle School. One young man shot another to death in the parking lot as parents picked up their kids from Pee Wee football practice.
Federal Way started out as a hick town with lots of farms and farm animals: Horses, geese, ducks, chickens. The entire Old McDonald repertoire.
Like many Federal Wayers, I’ve been reading about the stinking sea lettuce problem at Dumas Bay for a while now.
I grew up with the occasional wind shift bringing the Tacoma Aroma to town during the 1970s.
Now, however, Federal Way is developing its own body odor problems. The body being Dumas Bay, and the odor coming from an overgrowth of sea lettuce.
The Federal Way United Soccer Association captured its first — and second — national soccer titles last week.
In last week’s column, I discussed the threats to our urban forests in Federal Way. Invasive species, habitat loss and fragmentation all pose challenges to keeping Federal Way’s natural forested areas healthy. This week, in search of solutions, we’ll turn to the West Hylebos Wetlands Park
Illegal immigrants are destroying our forests. Ok, now that I have your attention, I should clarify that the immigrants in question, are not of the two-legged variety. I’m talking about invasive nonnative plants. These seedy foreign invaders are among a host of pressures threatening urban forests in Federal Way and around the Puget Sound region.
One warm June evening, I found myself drawn to the Federal Way Community Center for the meeting of the King County Charter Review Commission (I know — not exactly living in the fast lane, but at least I wasn’t home watching city council meetings…that’s Tuesday nights).
By now the aerial bombardment has ended, and Federal Way-ers are tentatively creeping out of their bunkers to see how much fireworks shrapnel ended up in their yards.
If you’re reading this, it means glowing embers from the neighbor kids’ high-tech pyrotechnic displays haven’t burned today’s newspaper to ashes.
With all due respect to law and order, I will start this off by stating what everyone knows: Fireworks bans are not working.
By now the aerial bombardment has ended, and Federal Way-ers are tentatively creeping out of their bunkers to see how much fireworks shrapnel ended up in their yards.
If you’re reading this, it means glowing embers from the neighbor kids’ high-tech pyrotechnic displays haven’t burned today’s newspaper to ashes.
With all due respect to law and order, I will start this off by stating what everyone knows: Fireworks bans are not working.
Where are your third places?
