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Editorial page editor Patrick O’Callahan oversees the online and printed opinion sections of The News Tribune. He came to The News Tribune in 1987 and has worked at Washington newspapers since 1979. E-mail him at patrick.ocallahan@thenewstribune.com
Editorial writer Cheryl Tucker, in addition to writing commentary, manages the daily production of the editorial and op-ed pages and edits letters to the editor. She began her journalism career in 1974 at a Virginia newspaper and came to The News Tribune in 1978. E-mail her at cheryl.tucker@thenewstribune.com.
Editorial writer Kim Bradford manages the online opinion section of The News Tribune and writes commentary. She joined The News Tribune in 2005 after working 11 years at newspapers in Washington and Maryland. E-mail her at kim.bradford@thenewstribune.com.
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Editor emeritus David Seago retired from The News Tribune in 2008 after 41 years at The News Tribune. E-mail him at sds99@harbornet.com.
Richard Davis’ column on state politics frequently runs in the print edition of The News Tribune. He was president of the Washington Research Council, a statewide think tank, from 1986 through 2006. Currently, as a principal with The Simeon Partnership, Inc. he coordinates the activities of the Washington Alliance for a Competitive Economy, a business coalition founded by the Research Council, the Association of Washington Business and the Washington Roundtable.
Karen Irwin of University Place, a mother of four, has been a frequent contributor to The News Tribune's print editions. She has also written for Seattle's Child, Puget Sound Parent, the Tacoma Weekly, the Fayetteville Observer Times and the political blog Right Meets Left. She graduated from California Lutheran University with a degree in English literature and is currently working toward a history degree.
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No, the numbers won't impress you if your neighbors kept you up all night with their bottle rockets. But Tacoma police seem to be making some headway in enforcing the city's even-sparklers-are-illegal fireworks ordinance.
TPD spokesman Mark Fulghum reports that officers handed out "at least 25 to 30 citations" last week. Not a lot in a city the size of Tacoma, but a big improvement on the 10 citations they issued last year.
Police also confiscated more than 500 pounds of incendiaries, "about double last year," Fulghum said.
More significant: Fireworks complaints fell from 918 last year to 835 this year. That either means that more Tacomans are obeying the law or more Tacomans are giving up on the police.
Let's hope it's the former.
Readers of our late, lamented Insight section will remember UPS professor Bill Kupinse, whose poems and article about his role as Tacoma's official poet laureate graced the cover earlier this spring.
I checked in with Bill for an update on the laureate scene:
The poet laureate front has been active as of late. I am running a poetry workshop on “Illumination” at TAM (Tacoma Art Museum) July 24 (you’re welcome to join us if you’re so inclined), and I’m also getting ready to read at Showcase Tacoma in early August. But mostly I’m trying to write like crazy, as my tenure file is due in six short weeks.
The workshop is free, but TAM admission required (at a 10 percent discount for workshop participants.) Advance registration required. See the website above.
Even if you're not into poetry, the workshop is a chance to hear a representative from St. John's Abbey and St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., which commissioned an amazing work of art and Scripture. Pages for the first illuminated manuscript of the Bible to be commissioned in centuries are on display in TAM's "Illuminating the Word: The St. John's Bible" exhibition, which opened Friday.
This is bound to be a summer blockbuster show for TAM. Friends who've seen it elsewhere during its current tour rave about it, as does my wife, Anne, a docent at TAM. I'll post more about "Illumination" after a members-only event at TAM Saturday night.
