Do you have ‘a constitutionally-guaranteed choice to decide who to allow on your private property, and who to exclude’? Can you prevent unwanted individuals – whether rental inspectors, or prospective renters – from, respectively, forcing entry, much less forcing residency?
Letter: We were brothers then, and still are
The question was asked by a representative of a national health organization to which I had applied for funding for our elementary school baseball team, ‘What will we get for supporting these kids?’
Letter: Amtrak should go back where it came from
It was a macabre scene as in the dead-of-night the hulking, oversized caskets gloomily passed by, destined – in this disturbing and horrifying funeral procession – for the railroad graveyard.
Letter: Amtrak disaster
Just before being interviewed by KIRO radio this morning, I was told by the caller “You’re about to go live but if you haven’t heard, three fatalities are now being reported.” No, I hadn’t heard.
Letter: All hands – and passengers – on deck, America
It was my then-three-year-old grandson on the phone. Where was his cereal, he wanted to know? Not, ‘good morning grandpa!’ Not, ‘I love you grandpa!’ But did I eat his “Cap’n Crunch”?
Amtrak train schedule through Lakewood
Beginning December 18, Sound Transit says 14 Amtrak trains, at 79 mph, will pass through Lakewood at the following times:
Letter: First rental inspections, then rent control
Down the slippery slope of government’s unfettered, bureaucratic snowpocalypse. It all began, like it always does, with a snowflake, then another, and another, until a flurry became a fury of falling snow bringing Seattle and environs throughout the Pacific Northwest to a standstill.
Letter: Our hearts, hard-wired for home
On this Pearl Harbor Day, as Americans pause to honor and remember this 76th Anniversary when 2,403 citizens of the United States lost their lives, so here following is a reflection (appearing in this publication six years ago) of what it means when, as it turns out, there are those of us who won’t be […]
Letter: Tug of war – Railroads, Rental Inspections and you
Perhaps we’ve all gone mad. Railroaded. Tug of war. Only it’s not a game so none of us let go. Lakewood’s Mayor Don Anderson does not like being run over, nor any of his citizens either for that matter he says – referring to Amtrak’s soon-to-begin (December 18) passenger trains traveling at high speed (79 […]