Watchtower stories on manufactured housing, the HOMES Act, Pierce County parcels, military housing rhetoric, and local housing-cost accountability.
The Emerald Queen Casino, Resort, and Hotel is a multi-hundred-million-dollar destination owned and operated by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. It employs thousands of WA-10 residents. It sends compact revenue to Washington state every quarter. It anchors a tr...
The 2024 Point-in-Time count, the federally required annual census of unsheltered people, found 59.4 percent more Pierce County residents sleeping outside than the same count one year earlier. Joint Base Lewis-McChord, known locally as JBLM, is a major federa...
On April 17, 2024, the political action committee of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, made its first three contributions ever to Representative Strickland's campaign, totaling 3,750 dollars. That same April 17, Strickland voted yes on thre...
Crystal Pointe Estates is a 151-home manufactured housing community in Spanaway. Pierce County has 1,295 manufactured housing lots. On January 9, 2026, Representative Strickland voted yes on H.R. 5184, which Congress.gov describes as rescinding the Department...
This is the defense-money story, not the general defense-oversight ledger. Nine defense contractors that lobby Congress for billions of dollars in federal contracts gave Representative Strickland 73,250 dollars in campaign donations in one election cycle. She...
From January 2025 to April 2026, Representative Strickland reintroduced the Basic Allowance for Housing Restoration Act (the BAH Restoration Act, the bill that would have raised the federal housing stipend for military families), questioned the Secretary of t...
NFPA 1710 sets 4 minutes as the benchmark for first engine arrival. A 2023 city-commissioned study found no station district in Tacoma met that goal, and 90th percentile call-to-arrival times in multiple station districts exceeded 10 minutes. The department k...