BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Tacoma City Manager Eric Anderson avoids placement in the Weekly Volcano's Numbered Spaces column. He's the best. A 32-year-old Alfonso Ibanez Martinez has been convicted in Tacoma of heroin trafficking charges after more than 46 pounds of...

BOBBLE TIKI: BRUNCH WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Tacoma city officials want to bust down your apartment door to rid you of yellow teeth and reeking clothes and ashtray tongue and shallow breaths and bad skin and 50 bucks a month that you could instead spend on sushi and wine and good porn. Most imp...

The below article is translation of this original Japanese article posted on Japan's Citizens Internet Site, JANJAN. The American navy nuclear powered aircraft carrier George Washington (CVN 73) entered Tokyo Bay and moored at Yokosuka base, and it has passed already 9 months. I have always opp...

STEPH DEROSA: TACOMA'S FIRST NIGHT RULES >>> As much as we love squeezing my ass into a silky chiffon evening gown and struttin’ my stuff on the red carpet for an awards ceremony, it didn’t happen. I wasn’t invited. Something did come from the ceremony — Washington Festivals and...

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> A Gig Harbor neurosurgeon who treated the teenage kayaker critically injured Sunday puts a twist on Steve Martin’s Famous song: “Oh, I'm picking out a thermos, for you / Not an ordinary thermos, for you.� The doctor substituted “picking�...

PAUL SCHRAG: READY FOR AN AWESOME VISION ? >>> Steve Rodrigues is on a mission. If he has his way during the next several years, the current owner of the MV Kalakala will transform the discarded, historic vessel and a prime piece of waterfront property into a crowning jewel on Tacoma’s wa...

MATT DRISCOLL: TITLOW, LOCKE, SMOKING, DRUNK MOMS >>> Ah, the weekend. There’s really nothing better. After slaving away for five days straight, that two day respite is all some people have to live for. While I happen to have a wonderful wife and kid, an illustrious fantasy football caree...

Republican Senator John McCain, who battled Barack Obama hard on the campaign trail on the Iraq war, said on Friday he supports President Obama's plans to remove U.S. combat forces from Iraq over 19 months....

Caught in a series of factual errors, or what many are calling outright lies about climate science , Washington Post columnist George Will has upped the ante for himself and his employer with his latest column on global warming. Rather than issue a retraction and simply move on, today he reiterated ...

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Tacoma firefighters rule. After five years in prison, Ali al-Marri will finally get a trial. President Robin Hood Obama rides in with new tax cuts and increases. Lesson learned by Facebook: Don’t piss off social network users. Jewel pulls an A-R...