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Health care company founded in Tacoma marks its centennial with major gift to the community

Cambia Health Solutions’ gift celebrates the city’s lumber industry heritage At Dickman Mill Park, all that’s left of…

Forum April 5 explores transit-oriented development in Tacoma

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Experience the Tacoma Performing Arts Scene with Walk Tacoma

What could be better than watching live music, dance performances, and hearing a recitation from Tacoma’s Poet Laureate?…

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Who would want to be mayor of Tacoma?

By Morf Morford Tacoma Daily Index You may have noticed the proliferation of campaign signs all over town…

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Washington State receives grant for Arts Education

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded Washington state’s Teaching Artist Training Lab (TAT Lab) $25,000…

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Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County Hires New VP for Business Recruitment

  The Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County (EDB) is thrilled to welcome Sarah Bonds as the new…

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Special Candidate Filing Period – July 10, 11, and 12

A special filing period will he held July 10 – 12, 2017 as no candidate filings were received…

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I’ve never been in love with Tacoma

By Morf Morford Tacoma Daily Index Some cities have an unmistakable mystique and many of us fantasize about…

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Making America great again

By Morf Morford Tacoma Daily Index   There was a time, not so long ago, when we, the…

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Below the Boat creates beautiful topographic charts of Puget Sound and more

Robbie and Kara Johnson are the husband and wife duo behind Below the Boat, a new company that…

Who holds ultimate authority over our waterways? Photo: Morf Morford

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Rural Pierce County offers many diversions

By Morf Morford Tacoma Daily Index Pierce County has to be the most variegated county in the state…

We might think that we invented fast food, but Asia has had it for millennia - but it looks like this. These are sliced lotus roots.Photo: Morf Morford

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Latest webisode of Inspired Palates features Tacoma resident and local Vegan Chef Niombi Howell

The City of Tacoma’s Media and Communications Office – in partnership with its Community and Economic Development Department…

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Food establishment closure page is ready

Local diners now have one-stop resource to learn which restaurants are in a time out Tacoma-Pierce County Health…

This sign, part of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, in 1909 on the campus of the University of Washington (Seattle) was just another ad campaign by Tacoma's early promoters.Photo by Morf Morford

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News Flash! Tacoma is not Seattle

By Morf Morford Tacoma Daily Index Perhaps it’s human nature, but most people I know in Tacoma have…