By David Anderson, Tillicum Now that Tillicum’s Camp Murray Gate debacle has been voted overwhelmingly the top West Pierce news story (in The News Tribune) for 2011, it’s time to reflect on what this means.
Letter: Just Nights Before Christmas
By David Anderson Just nights before Christmas, the tree, newly decorated, had not only presents beneath but also four little children, all wrapped in blankets, snuggled together for warmth as the fire in the hearth died to embers. It was the fourth child, our son Matthew, who saved our lives.
Letter: Stop-the-Train Signature Drive Continues
By David Anderson We’ve discovered we have more time to gather signatures in the effort to put an initiative on the ballot for a vote of the people on the most significant transportation issue the City of Lakewood is likely ever to face – as many as 12 high speed trains per day through a […]
Letter: The Main Thing
By David Anderson “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” As we prepare our New Year’s Resolutions, what’s ‘the main thing’ and where do you get it let alone stay true to it? Steven R. Covey is the author of ‘the main thing’ quote and several others like it. Covey is […]
Letter: So let’s gamble
By David Anderson, Tillicum That sweaty-palmed gambler recently identified as having cheated his kids out of their Christmas presents isn’t to be found in the police lineup; rather it’s the state itself, proposing to expand their predatory market. So let’s gamble.
Letter: Going Home, a Sequel
The monitor began to squawk. It’s one of those things parents often use for listening to the breathing of their child in the next room, only this time it was the other end of the age spectrum and the sound emanating from the monitor wasn’t the labored breathing of a youngster with a cold, rather […]
Letter: Going Home
There’s something significantly special about the mere mention of home at this time of year that strikes an empathetic cord, strums the emotional heart strings and replays the melody of childhood memories. Whether it’s Bing Crosby’s famous rendition of the most requested song at Christmas U.S.O.’s – when the soldiers of World War II learned […]
Letter: Who is the customer?
By David Anderson, Tillicum “Building trust in government” – the concern raised in the last paragraph of Lakewood City Manager Andrew Neiditiz’s column in the fall “Lakewood Connections” recently delivered to mailboxes throughout the city – is placed here in the first paragraph since the topic of trusting government merits discussion of highest importance given […]
Letter: Trick-or-treating – and the truth – in Tillicum
By David Anderson, Tillicum What character are you going to be for Halloween – monster, vampire, witch, werewolf, ghost, or just a regular creep? How about going as “truth” or “(environmental) justice”? The truth – about how Camp Murray’s gate could have been permitted by City of Lakewood staff to be relocated in such a […]