That’s my new Twitter name.

When I moved here three years ago I thought I was moving to a small town. Wrong. Yakima is a small city.

It’s the sirens. I hear a lot of sirens in Yakima. You don’t hear sirens in small towns.

We’ve got TV stations in Yakima. Four network stations, that behave like they think they’re in Seattle. Except, the anchors are either twenty-something or fifty-something. Small towns don’t have TV stations that lead with the top of the police blotter. Our “big city” TV stations make us look like a small town.

We’ve got traffic in Yakima. It isn’t Seattle traffic, but it’s traffic, baby. Small towns don’t have traffic.

Small towns have a Wal-Mart. We have two. Yakima is a city.