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    Articles by Keith Livingston
    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    City gets a black eye from Steel Lake...
    By Keith Livingston • March 10, 2023 5:05 am

    Another day — another black eye for Federal Way. This one we did to ourselves. Elected leadership and senior staff…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Here’s what we forget about the intentions of...
    By Keith Livingston • February 24, 2023 5:05 am

    In the aftermath of any and every police misstep and citizen killing, we talk about reform.

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    State’s drug possession laws challenge the greater good...
    By Keith Livingston • February 10, 2023 5:05 am

    Many years ago, in Texas, when getting ready to leave a bar with my friends, the bartender noticed that my…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Federal Way is not a five-star city |...
    By Keith Livingston • January 25, 2023 9:00 am

    Opinion: Why are we not maximizing the preservation of any and all open-space in the area?

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Homeowner’s behavior toward waste worker is pure garbage...
    By Keith Livingston • January 20, 2023 5:05 am

    I recently witnessed an interaction between a homeowner trying to deal with having his green bin container picked up by…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Let’s say our 8 billionth person was born...
    By Keith Livingston • January 6, 2023 5:05 am

    The United Nations announced Nov. 8 that the world had just welcomed its 8 billionth human passenger.

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Federal Way’s field of dreams vs. the voice...
    By Keith Livingston • December 30, 2022 5:05 am

    In the movie “Field of Dreams,” a baseball diamond was built in a cornfield in rural Iowa based on the…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    My annual holiday ode and ‘roast’ to Federal...
    By Keith Livingston • December 23, 2022 3:05 pm

    Finding a thread to muse about in a 2022 ode to Federal Way requires some post-pandemic leniency and a shout…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    The problem with Federal Way’s shopping cart ordinance...
    By Keith Livingston • December 10, 2022 5:30 am

    Crime and poverty are political tools that our country’s wealthy and elite political class choose to use against the middle…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    How to embrace a more inclusive holiday celebration...
    By Keith Livingston • November 26, 2022 5:30 am

    Cities need to navigate their holiday celebration displays of “faith” in the public square carefully. Cities sometimes are so careful…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    How to find leadership and courage in today’s...
    By Keith Livingston • November 12, 2022 5:30 am

    What happens when we as residents of this community and great nation fail to realize that we are being managed…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Are South King County’s poverty problems here to...
    By Keith Livingston • October 29, 2022 5:30 am

    What does success look like?

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Dear candidate: Are you a problem solver or...
    By Keith Livingston • October 8, 2022 5:30 am

    The season of election flyer platitudes is upon us. We are being asked to vote and select our favorite candidate…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Federal Way is trending in the wrong economic...
    By Keith Livingston • September 10, 2022 5:30 am

    Our city’s planners are encouraging us to focus on developing a plan for the 7 acres the city owns adjacent…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    How to navigate society’s post-pandemic behavioral changes |...
    By Keith Livingston • August 20, 2022 5:30 am

    Are any of you feeling a sense of loss in your daily lives and routines resulting from pandemic fatigue?

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Federal Way is stuck living in the past...
    By Keith Livingston • July 30, 2022 5:30 am

    Clickity-clack, light rail is coming. Our city’s future is being discussed in coffee shops, the back rooms of City Hall…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Election challenges that affect the 30th Legislative District...
    By Keith Livingston • July 3, 2022 5:30 am

    The floodgates of America’s right-wing morality machine have opened. Their goal of overturning the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    What happens when local legislators bring back the...
    By Keith Livingston • June 11, 2022 5:30 am

    City council meetings are opportunities for public discussion as well as disseminating information. The public discourse offered at these meetings…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Federal Way’s problems did not arrive on the...
    By Keith Livingston • May 20, 2022 2:30 pm

    Federal Way’s streets and main pedestrian walkways have become extensions of the mean streets we see elsewhere — littered, sketchy,…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Real life ‘cops and robbers’ is a lucrative...
    By Keith Livingston • April 12, 2022 1:50 pm

    Our cities are becoming fear driven crime bubbles with all of us looking for someone to blame. Some believe that…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Federal Way seems destined for prolonged mediocrity by...
    By Keith Livingston • April 2, 2022 5:30 am

    As citizens we are a capricious lot. We expect our elected fellow citizens to oversee the municipal flow of our…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    Where’s the justification for bad behavior in our...
    By Keith Livingston • February 28, 2022 8:30 am

    Common sense respectful behavior and decorum in our society has broken down into angry undercurrents with unreconciled grievances everywhere. It…

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    Keith Livingston is a retired municipal management professional, lifelong artist and Federal Way resident. He can be reached at keithlivingstondesign@gmail.com.
    The cost of shaming the homeless for being...
    By Keith Livingston • January 20, 2022 12:18 pm

    As community members our expectations are great, and we want 2022 to be a better year for our city. For…

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