At 10 a.m. today the city of Tacoma will rededicate the Murray Morgan Bridge, which reopened Feb. 1 after an almost two-year project to rehab it and restore the original black color.
Tukwila Station has the fewest parking spaces of the eight Sounder train stops between Lakewood and Seattle, but not for long. Sound Transit is preparing to rebuild the station at 7301 Longacres Way and nearly double the parking.
With their gyrating hips and feet that move so fast they dissolve into a blur, samba instructor Carla Campos' students are barely distinguishable from the swarms of scantily clad dancers in Rio de Janeiro's Carnival parades. What's make them different is where they come from: abroad.
The research center largely responsible for launching the “green revolution” of the 1960s that dramatically raised crop yields is getting support from the world's richest men to develop genetically modified seeds to help farmers in the developing world grow more grain in the face of a changing climatic conditions and increased demand.