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New café in Pierce County will have a mimosa bar and locally roasted coffee
14+ hour, 44+ min ago (433+ words) A family-run walk-up coffee stand is expanding into a café with seating available for patrons at Lake Tapps. The Coffee Vault, run by Chelsea Scott, her sister Stephanie Jensen and their mother Gina Stanhope, has been in the area since…...
Washington no longer has a top business climate for creating startups | Opinion
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (564+ words) Entrepreneurs do not start businesses in a vacuum. They make decisions in an environment created in significant part by public policy: taxes, labor costs, licensing requirements, regulatory complexity, the cost of hiring employees and the amount of uncertainty government introduces…...
Washington’s roads cause too many deaths. Trains could help out | Opinion
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (397+ words) I confess: I fled the heat and smoke for the coast. Irrationally fearful that my home might burn too, I lumbered through Interstate 5 traffic as an Amtrack Cascades train ran on nearby track. Transport policy is health policy: more cars…...
Overnight lane closures coming to I-5 near Pierce/Thurston county line
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (190+ words) Drivers should expect overnight lane closures and a reduced speed limit on parts of Interstate 5 between DuPont and Lacey. According to a news release from the Washington State Department of Transportation, crews will be replacing concrete panels starting on Monday,…...
Key Peninsula fire district rejects latest gas station offer
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (878+ words) Key Peninsula Fire commissioners voted to reject the latest offer from a gas station owner Tuesday for their property at 15610 Olson Dr. NW, ending months of negotiations amid a wave of opposition from many residents who’ve voiced their preference of…...
Rock, crystal shop reopens in Tacoma, more local biz news
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (538+ words) South Tacoma Way has a new shop for all your rock and crystal needs. Manic Mermaid has re-opened at 5436 S. Tacoma Way, Suite A, after closing its Point Ruston shop earlier this summer. The store, which first opened in the Lincoln…...
Lake Tapps walk-up coffee shop expands into cafe
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (12+ words) (Video) Tacoma News Tribune...
Golf course review: Lakewood course has unbeatable value, if you can get on
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (453+ words) I received an email from Scott Johnson in late July, inviting me to play the American Lake Veterans Golf Course in Lakewood, on the grounds of the VA Hospital. The course is minutes from my house, but I had never…...
Ban on controversial conversion therapy paused for a Tacoma-area counselor
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (589+ words) A federal judge in Tacoma approved an agreement Thursday that shields a Fircrest counselor from the state’s ban on conversion therapy for minors while his challenge against the law proceeds in court. Under the terms of the agreement signed by…...
Stop blaming downtown, or any Tacoma neighborhood, when a restaurant closes
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (359+ words) Sorry to be so bluff, but Miró Tapas was never going to make it. Neither was West 122, at least not once it changed hands. The recent shutters in downtown Tacoma sparked some conversation around whether the concept was, in the…...