Jun. 11, 2008 at 3:52pm

Shoulda Been Reading The Tribune

I've been pissy lately and have been avoiding many things, one of which was reviewing my news alert e-mail messages from The News Tribune. Talk about self sabotage. If I had been keeping up, I would have known that I wanted to attend the City Council meeting last night. Apparently, according to Dan Voelpel, there was a discussion planned about the best way to spend $25 million to keep Russell or at least make our downtown and new "financial district" attractive to employees and employers. Public comment was invited and where was I? Watching cable television. Awesome.

Another interesting article that I missed was Peter Callaghan's, "It’s time to reassess Tacoma’s urban waterfront", which just screams for public comment and has thus far received only seven. I started to leave my comment, but got a little fired up and decided to get back to it after a little contemplation. Attached to the article was a video that I found interesting and worth watching but in need of some melon or alien editing talent.

Callaghan's article led me to Walk the Waterfront, a community organization dedicated to bringing to life a continuous, accessible, vibrant path along the seven miles of waterfront from the head of the Foss to the beach and trails of Point Defiance. This sounds like a very good thing to me. They have a printable petition and a lot of good information posted on their site.

Anyone want to share their thoughts on where "we" should spend the $25 million?

I know I've seen discussions fairly recently on f<<t and Exit 133 about our need for a truly walkable waterfront. Are we all talk and no action?

Speaking of action... are we going to get that fence removed before Tall Ships? There are only 21 days remaining before our downtown is filled with about a million people.