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May 9, 2020

• Tacoma continues to give tax breaks to apartment developers even as COVID-19 saps budget
• Unemployment woes grow with false claim filings; one local employer sees more than 20
• Tacoma native Marcus Trufant giving back to community through COVID-19 emergency fund
• She sings at meetings. She’s been arrested at a protest. Now she’s Tacoma peace laureate
• Coronavirus updates: FDA approves new at-home testing kit; Pierce County deaths reach 60
• Washington state reports 16,674 COVID-19 cases, 921 deaths
• Pierce County reports 34 new COVID-19 cases; county deaths reach 60
• COVID-19 death toll in Washington state passes 900
• 5 takeaways about COVID-19 from Gov. Inslee’s Friday news conference
• The future arrived a little earlier than we thought it would
• A hanging basket for your porch is just a phone call away
• Gig Harbor to get $323,100 in crisis relief money from Congress; how to spend it up to council
• Easter was a no go. But Tacoma will finally get its community drive-in church gathering
• Virus: Brainless pathogen mustn’t divide us
• China: Irreverent joke hit the bullseye
• Priorities: Putting war over healthcare spells doom
• Human connection: Virus is wake-up call
• Peninsula and Gig Harbor graduates will get a big, honkin’ car parade in June
• Sex offender registrations in Pierce County
• Burglar sentenced for killing Kent woman who’d been caring for 4-month-old grandchild
• Bruce Irvin cap charge almost $6M. Where’s that leave Seahawks with Jadeveon Clowney?