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"Your Voice" features longer and distinctively personal commentary from readers on topics that don't seem to fit in a letter to the editor. Try to limit submissions to about 600 words.
Send proposed articles to chief editorial writer Patrick O'Callahan, The News Tribune, PO Box 11000, Tacoma, Wash. 98411 (or e-mail Patrick O'Callahan). Articles may be edited and republished in any format by The News Tribune.
View more of this week's collection of editorial cartoons
It is infinitely easier to keep a big employer in the region than to recruit a big employer from elsewhere. Yes, we’re talking about Boeing.
Thomas Jefferson – chief author of the Declaration of Independence we celebrate tomorrow – had a lot to say about an informed electorate. On one occasion, he wrote: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
What’s happening south of our state line is enough to make the likes of Tim Eyman, as well as a number of thwarted Washington Democrats, green with envy.
Taken too far, efforts to fix past racial discrimination tip over into reverse discrimination. But how far is too far?
Let’s forget for a moment that U.S. troops didn’t leave Iraq on Tuesday, only the streets of its cities.
Fourteen years ago, the Supreme Court of Washington heard arguments in a death penalty case, live on TVW. It has never looked back.
If you were starting from scratch designing a 911 system for Pierce County, you’d never get the system the county is saddled with.
Tacoma police say this is the year that they really will get tough with the pyromaniacs who turn neighborhoods into war zones.
Rape and sexual abuse remain too much a fact of life behind bars.
Pity the poor, rich, famous celebrity. Really.
Some who die in war die quickly. Others take longer.
The Tacoma School Board is happy with its superintendent hire, and it has reason to be. But the board shouldn’t stop expecting more.
Seattle and Tacoma can’t help being neighbors, and they’ve also been friendly rivals at times. The “friendly” part has included an implicit gentleman’s agreement not to fire nuclear warheads at each other’s economic base.
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg has a point, to a point.
Does the Tacoma Police Department have too much money to throw around and too many officers at its disposal?
AIDS Housing Association of Tacoma
American Memorial
Amtrak Cascades
Away We Go
B&I Coin Shop
Banner Bank
Bergman Draper & Frockt
Big 5 Sporting Goods
Blue Mouse Theatre
Cadillac
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington
Chambers Creek Pet Memorial Park at New Tecoma Cemetery
City of Tacoma
Classy Chassis
Click!
Comcast
Dejà Vu
Dell
Destiny Harbor Tours
EB5 Facial Cream
Emerald Queen Hotel & Casino
Frank Tobey Jones Senior University
Galaxy Theatres
Gene Pankey Motor Company
GMC
Got Gold
Harbor Audiology & Hearing Services, Inc.
HomeStreet Bank
Honda Power Equipment
Hooters
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ideal Home Furnishings
Johnny's Dock Restaurant & Marina
JointFlex
Juvenescence MD Laser & Skin Care
Kantor Diamond Company
Katherine E. Crabill D.D.S.
Kenneth P. Ring, DDS
Little Creek Casino & Resort
Lost Lake Resort
Macy's
Mary's Burgo Bistro
Mattress Depot USA
Memory Wellness Program
Moe's Home Collection
Muckleshoot Casino
MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
Narrows Glen
New Life Clinics
New Tacoma Cemeteries & Funeral Home
Win Mariners Tickets
McClatchy's Newspapers Commemorative Book
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