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Washington: South

June 1, 2009 - 01:25 pm
NEWS FEED: News Tribune

O! Potholey night

By Ian Demsky

We have not yet discussed the spiritual dimension of the lowly pothole. It is not something, but a lack of something, a void, an absence, an emptiness.

They certainly seem also to be kenotic, from the Greek, kenosis (κένωσις), meaning self-emptying, as in the theological choice to become entirely receptive, a vessel waiting to be filled with perfection. Hot, black, gooey perfection.

Is the homophonic coincidence between 'holy' and 'holey' merely that? Or can we read something more into 'holy's' Old English origins meaning that "which must be preserved whole or intact" and related to the word for health and happiness.

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May 18, 2009 - 01:20 pm
NEWS FEED: News Tribune

Moss Honored

By Ian Demsky

Harold Moss, the first African American mayor of Tacoma, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Puget Sound on Sunday during its graduation ceremony.

For those who aren't familiar with Moss' contributions to the Tacoma community read on, they're spelled out in the citation that was read aloud:

Civic leader, civil rights activist, selfless citizen, you are the architect of equality for the city of Tacoma. A son of Texas and a child of Detroit, you came to this city when your service in the United States Army stationed you at Fort Lewis. Here in the beautiful Northwest, you encountered once again the familiar face of discrimination you had met before in the rural South and the urban Midwest.

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February 2, 2009 - 07:51 pm
NEWS FEED: News Tribune

Mock train service (aka bus) coming to South Tacoma

By Jason Hagey

Pierce County bus driver Gary Zies makes a phone call while awaiting for bus commuters at a nearly deserted Lakewood Station for the first day of the new facility in Lakewood. (Lui Kit Wong/The News Tribune)

Sound Transit officials are holding a news conference Tuesday to announce a new bus route from South Tacoma to downtown Seattle.

ST Express Route 593, which begins service Monday, will let commuters begin using the park-and-ride facility at the new South Tacoma Sounder Station -- even though the train is still a couple years away from reaching South Tacoma.

Commuters can ride from the station, located at South 60th and Adams streets, to Seattle via the Tacoma Dome, said Sound Transit spokeswoman Linda Robson.

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