Washington: Council

In his report to the Tacoma City Council last Friday, City Manager Eric Anderson provided a time line of legislation approved by the Council related to the LeMay Museum.

It starts with Oct. 27, 1998 -- the day the City proclaimed as LeMay Day -- and goes up through the April 28, 2009 application for $3.5 million in federal Housing and Urban Development loans.

You can download a .pdf of it here.

It isn't often that a city takes a page from a celebutante's playbook, but Tacoma seems to be following Paris Hilton's lead for managing its social life.

Last year, Paris had her own reality TV show which set up a competition to be her new BFF -- that's Best Friend Forever.

Currently, the city of Tacoma has 11 best friends. These sister cities are scattered across the globe from Kokura, Japan to El Jadida, Morocco. But we're starting to get a little pickier about whom we're going to be palling around with.

"The Community and Economic Department proposes during 2009 to complete a policy review and recommend to Council a new ordinance that would define the responsibilities and procedures relating to the Sister City program," a recent entry from the City Manager's weekly report reads.