Cities need to navigate their holiday celebration displays of “faith” in the public square carefully. Cities sometimes are so careful…
What happens when we as residents of this community and great nation fail to realize that we are being managed…
What does success look like?
The season of election flyer platitudes is upon us. We are being asked to vote and select our favorite candidate…
Our city’s planners are encouraging us to focus on developing a plan for the 7 acres the city owns adjacent…
Are any of you feeling a sense of loss in your daily lives and routines resulting from pandemic fatigue?
Clickity-clack, light rail is coming. Our city’s future is being discussed in coffee shops, the back rooms of City Hall…
The floodgates of America’s right-wing morality machine have opened. Their goal of overturning the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade…
City council meetings are opportunities for public discussion as well as disseminating information. The public discourse offered at these meetings…
Federal Way’s streets and main pedestrian walkways have become extensions of the mean streets we see elsewhere — littered, sketchy,…
Our cities are becoming fear driven crime bubbles with all of us looking for someone to blame. Some believe that…
As citizens we are a capricious lot. We expect our elected fellow citizens to oversee the municipal flow of our…
Common sense respectful behavior and decorum in our society has broken down into angry undercurrents with unreconciled grievances everywhere. It…
As community members our expectations are great, and we want 2022 to be a better year for our city. For…
An ode to Federal Way’s holiday season begins with a roast before we toast.
Today we are going to have a discussion with my friend “Doctor Community.”
Federal Way is an enigma. As a planned community built on corporate ideals, we have become a city of just…
Diversity has become a “buzzword” used by every city that has a significant multicultural – multiethnic population. It is also…
Federal Way, like all cities, gets to be a front row player to the daily, weekly, monthly, annual or multiyear…
Diversity appears to be Federal Way’s double-edged sword. We champion our diversity as a badge of courage, but fail to…
Could Federal Way reshape itself into a dynamic force in the South Puget Sound by investing in the arts?
What niche is Federal Way trying to fill in the greater Seattle-Tacoma area?
Reading the police blotter in any newspaper proves that we as people will do just about anything and when caught,…
