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    Like these Sneetches, all too often we can’t seem to see anything except our differences. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    Washington state – we’re number one
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 27, 2021 1:30 am

    Or maybe 7, or was that 45…

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    What happens a thousand miles away, or even ten thousand, can have a huge, even multiplier effect on our local economy. These cranes dominate our local economy as much as they do our landscape. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    The “K” economy keeps expanding
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 26, 2021 1:30 am

    When it comes to the economy, it’s a small world after all

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    Up close and in the distance, even up in the sky, water seems to be everywhere. It’s one of the many luxuries most of us in the Northwest take for granted. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    April showers bring May flowers – but not...
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 23, 2021 1:30 am

    April is the cruelest month

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    Image courtesy Children’s Museum at JBLM / Greentrike Media
    JBLM hosts annual Kids’ Fest April 24; First-of-its-kind...
    April 22, 2021 1:30 am

    Kids’ Fest is an annual April event at JBLM to coincide with The Month of the Military Child…

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    It’s not magic that gets stuff to us, it’s infrastructure. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    You call it spending, I call it investing
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 21, 2021 1:30 am

    A key premise of money is that you can do three things with it; save it, spend it or invest it…

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    Leaders live forever in the shadows of their legacies. Photo by Morf Morford
    Best & worst leaders
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 20, 2021 1:30 am

    From presidents to bosses, what’s the criteria?

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    ‘Tis the season – for the Crosscut Festival
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 19, 2021 1:30 am

    This year it’s online only – and free

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    What does coffee have to do with Tacoma? We can thank Tacoma-based West Coast Grocery for marketing food from then-exotic places like Hawaii and Asia. These products, or at least their signs and containers, from canned fruit to spices, are a hot item in antique circles - especially among the locally renowned Tacoma history nerds. (Photo courtesy of Tacoma Public Library)
    AMOCAT/TACOMA
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 16, 2021 1:30 am

    Not every city has a reversible name

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    This “urban village” in British Columbia in one of many housing models. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    Home: renting or buying – or something else
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 15, 2021 10:51 am

    Renting or owning are not the only options…

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    Every time we look at our waterways, they are different. Photo by Morf Morford
    A rising tide raises all boats?
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 14, 2021 1:30 am

    I think we all know, that is not true now – if it ever was…

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    Area Codes
    Area Codes
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 13, 2021 1:30 am

    Remember those days when you could identify a phone number by its area code?

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    Image courtesy Creative Outlet
    The Quarantine Fifteen
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 12, 2021 1:30 am

    No, it’s not a terrorist gang or the latest K-Pop band

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    Most national borders monitor large amounts of cash. Does that matter any more? I took this photo at the Canadian border in mid-March of 2021. (Photo by Morf Morford)
    Teaching about money
    By Morf Morford mmorford@soundpublishing.com • April 9, 2021 1:30 am

    When it comes to money, maybe we all have a lot to learn

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