Not yet. “After much discussion, it was the consensus of the (Lakewood City) Council to implement a $60 business license fee for multi-family apartments per location; and the Council agreed to consider business licensing for single family rental housing at a later date.”
Letter: Gamble, get tanked then get tanked
Can you successfully sue the casino for serving you too many free drinks before you assault somebody? The Lakewood Police Department’s bar report (p.21 of 226) is out, as is the City’s review of gambling income (p.41 of 74), both reports covering the year 2016.
Letter: In lieu of Rental Inspection, what might have been
Lakewood had opportunity to institute a “robust tenant/landlord outreach educational program” in lieu of the onerous Ordinance No. 644 that mandates inspections on-and-in rental properties. Ironically, ‘robust’ means “straightforward and imbued with common sense.”
Letter: Journalism – when the bulldog escapes the leash
“We need to embrace, even relish, our legacy as malcontents and troublemakers, people who are willing to say the thing that makes everyone else uncomfortable.” The day after the election, the results of which seemed to mystify much of America, particularly mainstream media, Kyle Pope, author of the quote above, entitles his piece in the […]
Letter: RIP becomes rottener
It began as Rental Inspection Program, or RIP. The name was changed deleting the controversial ‘inspection’ and replaced with the more palatable ‘safety’ for Rental Housing Safety Program, or RHSP. Now, a business license fee is being tacked on plus per-unit fees and giving no quarter to landlords whose property has only one rental verses […]
Letter: Two extremes – the haves and the homeless have-nots
As we enter this season of Thanksgiving baskets and Christmas presents; bell-ringers and heart-string pullers; card-board sign displayers and more rain and cold nights under a tarp or park bench, what does true help to the homeless look like?
Letter: Marijuana – coming to a city near you
Buckley buckled; Bonny Lake has sprung a leak; UP wants MJ, Tacoma is already in the tank so any bets Lakewood will for long lag behind? “Lured,” is the word John Gillie used in his November 6, 2016 headline in the Tacoma News Tribune: “Bonney Lake joins Pierce cities lured by marijuana tax revenue.”
Letter: Beating the living daylights (Daylight Saving Time, and rental inspection in contrast)
“Reducing demand for expensive wax candles,” wrote Ben Franklin in an April 26, 1784 essay entitled“An Economical Project”, was reason enough to save daylight by simply moving the hands of the clock. And it was with that pronouncement, upon which the American delegate to Paris pontificated whimsically at length, that over two centuries later nations […]
Letter: When you no longer have a script
Snow White, Prince Charming, Geppetto, Grumpy and many, many other fictional fairy tale characters are ripped from the pages of every child’s bedtime reading and relocated to a fast-forwarded future where they no longer know how their plot is supposed to end.