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My life in T-shirts: Ask Me About My Cat - Legalize Frostitution - Death Before Decaf. You get the idea. I enjoy lint-rolling, bons mots, magazine launch parties (if I was invited), paying too much for groceries, and the occasional semicolon. I'm a copy editor at The News Tribune, but I won't correct your grammar at the bar. Contact me at kelly.davenport@thenewstribune.com.

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...is a political reporter for The News Tribune. She likes sunshine, soup and puppies. Beyond that, it gets dicey. Contact Niki at niki.sullivan@thenewstribune.com.

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You'll like Tacoma
Monday, February 4th, 2008
Posted by Cole Cosgrove @ 12:23:56 am

A billboard proclaiming, “Welcome to Yakima: The Palm Springs of Washington,” is back by Interstate 82 amid the snow and cold of winter.
The sign is owned by a Yakima developer and business owner. For 23 years it greeted motorists from the Gateway Shopping Center. Then about a year ago it was removed because of hotel construction.
Last Friday it rose again, this time at the Chinook Business Park, about a mile north of the old location.
– The Associated Press

I've always admired Yakima's sign. But it got me wondering – what city sparks a comparable mental image for Tacoma?

UPDATE:
In an e-mail sent to media folks today to tout some positive press, Bremerton Mayor Cary Bozeman writes, “Is Bremerton becoming the Sausalito of Puget Sound?”

But the winner might be from a 2004 News Tribune story in which then-Mayor of Ruston Kim Wheeler says, "I've always said Ruston would be the Medina of Tacoma.”

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