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Local officials will gather at a Tacoma coffee house Saturday to discuss neighborhood revitalization, preventing sprawl and conserving open space.
The group also will discuss how private entrepreneurship and city and county governments help or hinder those efforts.
The forum will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Neighborhood Coffee House and Espresso at the corner of McKinley Avenue and East 34th Street in Tacoma. Attending will be Pierce County Councilmen Calvin Goings and Tim Farrell, council candidate Carolyn Merrival and Tacoma City Councilwoman Julie Anderson. Also attending will be New Tacoma Neighborhood Council President Marty Campbell and Ryan Mello, Pierce County director for the Cascade Land Conservancy.
For more information, contact Andrew Bacon at 253-536-7899 or editor@tahomaorganizer.org.
Who deserves your vote for Pierce County executive? The four candidates have been making their case at a series of recent public forums.
Republican Shawn Bunney, Democrat Calvin Goings, Executive Excellence candidate Mike Lonergan and Democrat Pat McCarthy have been giving variations of the same speeches at each forum. The latest was last night at the Korean Women’s Association in Tacoma.
As at other recent forums, the candidates gave a brief opening statement describing their qualifications and priorities. You can listen to last night’s opening statements by Goings and McCarthy by clicking here. You can listen to statements by Bunney and Lonergan by clicking here. Each audio lasts about 5 minutes.
Did you miss the District 2 & 3 Pierce County Council forum in South Hill Tuesday night? You can watch it at your leisure on the web here.
Midland resident Stacy Emerson recorded the event and posted it at the link above. Thanks, Stacy!
The event features four candidates for the two district council seats. The District 2 race features Republican Joyce McDonald and Democrats Carolyn Merrival and Al Rose. The District 3 race pits incumbent Republican Roger Bush against Democrat Bruce Lachney (though Bush did not attend the forum).
You can read my summary of the forum here.
From our colleague Ian Demsky over at the Lights & Sirens blog:
Dark horse Pierce County Sheriff candidate Robert "The Traveller" Hill is already looking beyond November. State records show he filed paperwork on Aug. 18 to run for the state Senate seat now held by Debbie Regala (27th legislative district)... in 2012!
In doing so, Hill became first candidate to throw his hat into the ring for any race taking place four years from now.
