Blue Byline » Hilltop Crips http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline A cop's perspective of the news and South Sound matters Mon, 20 May 2013 05:57:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Hilltop neighborhood protective of their progress http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/07/11/hilltop-neighborhood-protective-of-their-progress/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/07/11/hilltop-neighborhood-protective-of-their-progress/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:37:44 +0000 Brian O'Neill http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/?p=1956

Tacoma City Council members got a rare demonstration of neighborhood activism last Tuesday: 20 people showed up to protest a single item that wasn’t even on the agenda. Those people, all residents of the Hilltop neighborhood, were there to speak out against the rumored addition of a sex offender halfway house in their neighborhood. Whether or not the possibility existed (the answer is probably not), their presence was at least a reminder that a united neighborhood, aka a community, is a power to be reckoned with.

For proof you need look no farther than the Hilltop today. Vital businesses have …

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