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Exploring Federal Way as a new frontier
Overcoming Federal Way’s general apathy toward exploring itself as a new frontier is essential for shedding the effects…
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Federal Way’s flat earth thinkers
‘Save the Campus’ and Initiative 19-001 poverty crusaders don’t have a clear understanding of their impact.
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’Twas the time before Christmas in Federal Way
“For us to regain prosperity … an improved retail sector would be nice, and we must keep traffic…
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Expediting projects to move city out of status quo slump
Weyerhaeuser has been gone for four years and new development is necessary. However, we may have become an…
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Embracing arts can recharge the city
Support for local arts organizations should be community’s core value.
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Changing our behavior to buy local first
Keeping 68 cents of every dollar you spend local has a positive impact on our community.
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Fact, fiction and Federal Way
Elected officials focusing primarily on the downtrodden may shortchange our opportunity to invest in needs and wants desired…
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Federal Way and the American dream
Since incorporation, this city has worked to realign its foundation, but at present it is mostly a blank…
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Federal Way’s canary moment
City is in survival mode with various challenges, including homelessness, multifamily housing density and more.
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Federal Way is a visual arts desert
If this city wants to improve its image, don’t check the “we got it partially done box, complete…
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Misplaced push for city to build homeless shelter
It is easy to lay blame at the feet of our local officials for not doing enough.
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Upstream causes rarely get addressed
A positive identity for this city requires all of us to work to become a destination city.
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Poverty zombies taking root in Federal Way
Many of our leaders have promoted Federal Way as a middle-class oasis on the way up.
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Expectations for Federal Way in upcoming legislative session
It is vital that we understand what our legislators will try to achieve on our behalf.
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Holiday season presents Centerstage fumble
Federal Way instantly loses significant cultural ground if lights go dark on Centerstage.
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Detecting lies and distortion during the election
You — the voter — cannot hold politicians accountable if you accept the lies.
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What role will you play in city’s drama?
If Federal Way is going to become a premier city we need to choose our roles carefully.
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Federal Way has become an economic ugly duckling
Can this city fill its vacant office buildings and attract a few high-end anchor corporations to re-establish a…
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What is your Federal Way story?
Calling all curmudgeons in Federal Way and beyond to take a good look at yourself. All I am…
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Livingston: Do we live up to our nation’s lofty goals?
As we celebrated this country’s 242nd Independence Day this past July 4, we banded together for one day…