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    Hometown Heroes include; Upper left: Selena Coppa; Upper right: Steve Hice; Lower left: Amanda Stambach; Lower right: Jacob Sullivan. (Image courtesy Harts Services and the Tacoma Rainiers)
    Harts Hometown Heroes
    August 18, 2023 1:30 am

    Harts Services is grateful for the contributions and sacrifices our veterans and their families make every day to protect our…

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    Some books are situated in a specific time, audience, area of interest or place, others are closer to universal. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    It’s not what we know that gets us...
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 16, 2023 1:30 am

    It’s what we think we know

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    Piles of Chinese coins may - or may not- buy as much as they used to. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    China and deflation – some benchmarks
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 15, 2023 1:30 am

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    We have all come to rely on unacknowledged coteries of unnamed drivers, pickers, growers and workers of all kinds. Our lives literally depend on them. Maybe we should pay them accordingly. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    The future is literally in our hands
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 14, 2023 1:30 am

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    In America we seem to like our politicians old. George Washington was 64 when he left office as president. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    Welcome to American Gerontocracy
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 11, 2023 1:30 am

    American politicians are above average – in age

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    Some take ignorance and bad grammar as a benchmark of patriotism. I’m not convinced that the Founding Fathers would agree. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    It’s “Silly Season” again
    By Marion Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 10, 2023 1:30 am

    “Lapse in appropriations” and other inane and evasive statements from those who should know better

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    Who of us would have imagined a re-configured Barbie would shake up, rouse and inspire us in the 2020s? (Photo by Morf Morford)
    Barbenheimer
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 9, 2023 1:30 am

    Collision of Barbie and Oppenheimer

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    Local streets tend to be conducive for all kinds of gatherings and interactions. Roads and freeways are not. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    On the stroad again
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 8, 2023 1:30 am

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    Sometimes when I read or hear a message, I get the feeling that letters and words have spilled across a blank page. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    Vocabulary of 2023
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 7, 2023 1:30 am

    If you want to appear capable and competent, talk like a grown up

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    It’s not that difficult to design public thoroughfares for everyone from delivery trucks to dogs on walks. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    American streets are dangerous
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 4, 2023 1:30 am

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    Many of us might feel that our lives have been taken over by all manner of adapters, cables, chargers and devices that track our every move - or word. But that is only the beginning. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    The smartphone ate my daughter
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 3, 2023 1:30 am

    Welcome to the era of the “phone-based childhood”

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    Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if we, as a nation, lived up to what we say we believe. “We the people” for example, means all of us. Photo by Morf Morford
    A Modest Proposal
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 2, 2023 1:30 am

    What if our leaders passed laws that applied to themselves?

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    The presence of construction cranes over the landscape of Tacoma has become almost an everyday sight. But it is easy to forget that every construction project, is, by necessity, temporary. (Image courtesy of Beautiful Angle)
    Temp workers “R” us
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • August 1, 2023 1:30 am

    Without much fanfare or recognition, temporary workers get it done

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