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Vfe -i rcs 1 r-s jfs- 4s' kt5 -Vvi Vi Mitral wan lltepl Bajackk ca-CMtraged Stortini to fin Fraxfer Stortini dftd Jr ifi' to pick the department hands' And UN department heads asm it the pleasure of the executive If a per- ii'-'V 7 i icial labels verdict 'a Ai- i I £1 ri t' $7 'v k-l -tf The Jery awarded Frasier aon do the )ob jroe find aotno- i A- not going to ait back end let tUa happen Ifa time to fight iw-M -4iAi W1 support tha verdict TTe News Tribune wrong and it would ba 10 percent wrong not to not to challenge tha legality of county firoHufety ordinancea when thoee nriiimwi ini presumed legal Bryan gave tha Jmy poor Instructions The Jury based ita damage award on aympathy for Frasier and prejudice against the county rather than on tha facts a routine aaid Paul IJndenmnth one of Frasier's attorneys you fim president of the United States not ug able back1 fXSMOl 1SI001 general danp ages phw fSi000 na in panithre damagaa agaimt Stortiid and Bna- CidL Stortini''- in keeping with i tha theme of hia defenaa aaid he ake dd Mondur was not only aaid to terminate a member of hia Cabinet that doing the Job? I think not a and day when you reward someone SSSSJNM became they do tha In the attorneys! motion for a reversal of tha Judgment Undanmuth aaid he believed tha Conaty Executive Joe Stortini appealH Stortini aayi a federal court Jury goofed (Juryh) i laat month when tt ndad ha wrong-U wrong hat tt waa alao ridicaloua" filly fired Ida planning director in If the Judge referee the requeat jlOST '-the County Council unanimously And hea notam to flidt haa approved an appeal of the ver Attorneys Stortini have adMd dfct to the Oth Court of UA District Judge Robert Bryan Appeal in San Francisca tto overturn the verdict or learned from my political ft least grant a new trial 'prt experience that there are times tnarlly baaed on their argument when you avoid a fight This ia not soop after Frasier spoke about a bounty own charter our conatitni ithat evidence preaentad during the one of thoee times Stortini aaid comty fireaafety ordinances he 7j tion gives the executive the right 5 i in part that: verdict ia contrary to verdict would stand no matter how fir tha county appeal! it what it means ia they (tha county) will be paying out i vPlease sea ttarthd B2 1 law Jndge Bryan erred by allow iag Frasier and other witnaossa to 7 V- iVJ Vs- 1 'A'n jf -i s-'y tv- s'" If Is tbBtudy needs tliiough 2010 The News Tribune Si sz It may be too early for Pierce County to be thinking 'about a light-rail train along Interstate 9 but not too soon to build more car-pool lanes on the freeway With a Ught-raU link between Seattle and Tacoma at beat 20 to years away Pierce Trenail commie- atanara have ordered two studies to aee what can be'-: done in the near future to improve public transit In their neck of the woods between Fort Lewis and Fife I not even looUng at light nil With thia (a tuMr aaid King Cushman director of development for Pierce Transit eYe going to see what we can do with bueea Our needa are BOV (higiKiccupaacy vefaicta) Tranait commiarionen Monday maigned the wort to two ronaultlng firma that already have been hired to aee whet Pierce Tranait should be doing over the next' decade Now the firms will bo looking ahead another decade to 2919 to aee how Pierce County fits' into the by King and Snohomtah countiea for' a rexianu ranid-tranait avatem One of thoae projects ia the proposed 199 million 1 commrter train from Seattle through the Green River Vafin to Puyallup and perhaps aa far as Tacoma aaia Piero Pierce Triunit wants its conaultenta to -J Peter NatayIbe News Trtxme an Siarlna View Drive a tnmli Mn ptaond nvnr thn f'i I help determine whether the 20 million for the Pierce Gouty segment would be worth it or if tan service' and car-pool lanes on the freeway would he more cHtnthktkn A -'I Consultants alao wUl he aakad to figure out how much it would coat to build carpxri fauna on the portions of and Washington 512 197 and 19 in nene CounW All time studies very likely will lead to one man requests for setae tax increases in the years 7 ahead one aa early aa next year The Legislature laat year paaaed a law that allows local tranait agenda to ask voters for a 1-cent to-! cream to the sales tax to pay for light-rail systems! Since Ught-raU ia so far off PierceTranait official! -ft'- A' Kurt VonHanaen a Daah Point resi- ha there already was Scrap haulers said General Metals' of a Fife "mentionable outside General need to move trucks quickly through Tha News Tribune ImlnrtvIfipiTri UIU Iferray Waaaon Idcnt aalea mi firm A Metals by Monday afternoon and tha the facility to minimise traffic Jama a Browna Point res-1 of tracks outside the facility was at least one reason the nager far Tacoma Monday morning created another and service hiwinees said tleneck for motoriaU to negotiate off company property bot-aelea tracker delivered a load of crushed car bodies to a Tacoma scrap-metal proceaaor laat week and rthen pulled off the road to aweep a clients from California and Eastern inner apparently ia 'booming at Mfew laftorar car parts onto the shoul-Washington have asked Urn how poo- General Metafe at beat in part bolder of Marine View Drive pie from Tacoma can get away with came of the recent doaure of a major 'The JunkJoiaed a mix of discarded Stamping refine from their tnda on a acnp proceaaor in Seattla Scrap haS- wiw shards of windshield gUaa gen- public right of way 7 era mterviewed outside the (riant laat eratora broken radiator boaaa and eth- Tt doeant look very good for week aaid tracks from ea far away aa deposited by otb- Waaaon added Eastern WeahfaMton and the er traces leaving General After failing to return several phone Portland area are driving to Tacoma CrrisfTMuna General Alter failing to return several phone Portland area are driving to Tacoma aey Ttame out hare and do said Rob Graham a Woodinville-baaed scrap hauler as he swept a layer of oily dirt onto the afaoulder of Mariae Vtaw Drive laat week ao many tracks coming in hen have bottleneck all -Fear that they'll be ticketed for al- Fear that they'll be tick B2 Pooper-scooper tew not in super-dupor shape yet city says ByKhnl The News Tribune -n calls from The Morning News Tribune became there any doeer places lowing looae debris to fly from their rj Witnemcs say that eome daya up to lest week General gsMrel opaa trucka ia the raaa the hautara 19 of the big acrap-hauling tracks line manager 8amaol Friedman aaid Moo- scrap steal recycling market ia sweep off after leaving General Met-both aides of two-lane Marine View day he had no comment on the com- going through a major change in the ah You Juat go down the road Drive waiting their turn inside General Petals Padfic a May 19 letter dumping metal and whatever else Motata busy facility on Hytaboa Wa- have a strict corporate policy from Friedman to scrap recycled 1 along the aaid the Hoquiam tarway that we Juatdotft make comments aaid change win Impact every- driver who refined to identify himself The tracks aometimea leave only a tha Friedman aaid one and may require a review of the uid ha a uhaiMv that tana down the middle of the But over the weekend General Met- way scrap ia collected and thrae i- -uw nlSdfor other twoway traffic eta tocki stepo to deal with thoee- fte tatter went toy that Pen WoriDtit -r Soma naidenta and huainemm near cumulated Junk along Marino View oral Metab was Marine View Drive a bwy arterial Drive and to provide a means for -r connecting Fife Northeast Tacoma truckera to avoid littering if thmr wUl and the Fort of Tacoma say they're Waaaon aaid a General Metals getting fad up with a recent increase Ei General Mitels' track traffic They debria and installed a roadride trato ronmental requirements ay the tracks cauae dangerous traffic bin for future material apolopae for any (Ways expert- Tve got a problem unth that as a Jama and a raadsida litter problem A vMt than Monday aftonoon enced at our site during temporary gff pays tone ud nveo to the becaaee scrap haulers aweep looae de- showed some truckera ware trying to tha tatter aaid are Northeut Tacoma-Browns Point beta from their track beda before re- uae the traah bin although at beat one solving our probtams and will continue A CB turning to the higinray swept hia flat-bed directly onto -the to provide our customer rapid-in this blatant open a "If somebody did that outside your shoulder rapid-out aervica There ia nothing of everything from immediately contact tha Jaken a step in the right more important to ea than our cuo- 1 But tamer" 1001 mjtinrtflQ and km tt said paint cana to Una Pleaae see Swap B2 Tacoma city officials have run into a few parted problems to their quest to rid the dtyta parks and streets of excrement For example: Should a new city pooper-ecooper law-exempt people who need seetog-eye dogs from picking up their dogf excrement? Ia a 500 fine and six months to Jail too steep a 1 pries to pay for foiling to properly deal with fems-i price to pay for foiling to properly dogs might' white walking a pet on public property? And should the law apply equally to to Just dogs or to any domesticated anil to poop on public property? questions appear to be bogging down wl i agree should have been a fairly easy to problem of dog droppings fouling cats and animal that whatdty'7 effort to public1 1 A( v1! Please see Peep B2 Advjce for gradUatesfStirthings up with your own 2 hands thtogsut It wu with Henry Kissinger who recently attained this particular A talked about arms exports moral ambiguity end "trying to chart a moral covse through a world of stand still on the summit of and ta the natural coune of I quoto Marshall Ebon a New York City humorist who ta 1971 celled another of this achievements tha trash compactor "a machine that tuna 29 founds of garbage into 29 pounds of 1 jr Were I given the choM to addruaa a graduating cfam I do not thinklwould dtaems such things I would have other fish to fry I would forward sltoa beck" -rm not aura what that means but I de know that it lathe kind of thin that people who deliver commencement addroaam say to people who are about to i of my two major goals to life ta to i once as a TV weathercaater I want to point a stick at a high pressure system and Pd like to pram a button that win start the satellite picture fade motion I want to say "Look for a uttoar" or "Make aura you tat tha eats sleep la the kitchen I want to rued the five day forecast to help And I might go eo for to quote Frederick DougbsaTwho said "If there to no struggle there to not that I doit have aa opinion on Square moral ambiguity or the nnaissaaeo of democracy -it Juat nocracy Juat tiwt I think that "People pay hundreds of dollars for trash compactors and all that them things do ta turn garbage Into garbage" I would touthe graduates "So welcome to the American Dream incarnate Thia i Is what you're up against gaeoUns powered leaf blowers" I would say gathering steam "what do they do? They make a whole tot of notoa they pollute the air and they provide a synthetic got of wind that mova toeva bum one idem to another They coat a lot of money and they make the neighbors aaffy and they stir up dust but all they truly accomplish ta tha transport of 1 fatten leava bum over here to ever theca" I would now be near the end "Then to a bettor way" I would say trying to 7 people plan their weak or to help them know whan to plant CR thaa Struggio and pragrem are the klada of topira ok i fit subjects for people who would probably radulta think younger aduHa need to think about a her bo at a party they stand upon the Edge of Tomorrow Who among you ever the age of 19 or 22 i however would ratinr talk about thorn 1 remembers who moke or what wu said at your 7 machtaos that either compact trash or blow lava high school or college graduation? from sidewalks I certainly But I do remember the partia I would hogta "Thank you for tattfav me be with that followed "you today" i And a I would tab about traah compactors and Continuing I would say "Congratulatloa for gaaoUao powered loaf hiowera If having como thia far Your work ha boa rewarded Thto to not to say that I he tempted to A end vou should he very proud of yourarivaa after sUp ta a Utile erudite wisdom or a fancy quote or what you have bean through them pert four years two as speakers often da I might ta fact offer this "And by the way" I would conflda "you atat aa IheNmlMbuM My other goal ta fife ta to present aa address to a graduating daaa I want to face a am of newly matriculated fame and I want to ton tha truth about Ufa But I would not talk about the kinds of things George weeks beck as he Yale University Bush talked about "the democratic Cantnd and Easton Europe" "the history" and "tha tragedy of "There to a better way" I would say again hoping that my audience worto understand And tha I would give soma advice about life all bum Hama Mann who spoke the addram at Antioch College ta 1959 Mann said "Be ashamed to die until you have won some kind of victory for Or I Bright harken the words of Gatos VeUotaa Paterculus who aaid 2900 years ago After thaa Introductory remarks I would Immediately attack the dayta meat of the matter I would rued a brief list of mankind's triumphs ta the 29th century (the telephone the airplane aattbtatica anchor energy laser surgery) and I would than araka" CM cotama appears SmdayM Tumtajm and Thursdays 4 4- A.