From the encroachment that accompanies complex, time-consuming, convoluted and cumbersome rental inspection programs, to government-grant research papers concluding that five-to-eight-year-olds prefer clean food as opposed to allegedly sneezed-on food, is it any wonder American’s trust in government to “do the right thing” has hit historic lows? Just published is the 154-page 2nd annual edition of […]
Letter: ‘Tis the season to be, uh, to be, uh
The Pastor shouted at kids waiting to see Santa in the Amarillo, Texas mall saying he wasn’t real; nothing but a red suit. Angry parents, leaving their toddlers behind, stepped out of line to confront the preacher, some protesting to Westgate Mall representatives that the Santa Claus Grinch should be banned.
Letter: Lakewood’s record-setting rental inspection program
What Lakewood has accomplished has never been done before. The City’s is an historic, Homeric, Guinness-World-Record-worthy entry of monumental proportions unequaled in the annals of celebrated accomplishments.
Letter: Rental Inspection Paradox
When I won the Great Cross Sound Race in 1990, a competitor’s double rowing shell was named ‘Paradocs’, appropriately enough given the pair were both doctors. Lakewood’s Rental Housing Safety Program (RHSP), paradoxically, plans to achieve after the fact – entailing a great deal of complexity in the process – what it could have done […]
Letter: How much is a loaf of bread?
If the loaf of bread is from a grocery store that’s but two blocks away, then the cost is tickets for two on a trolley bus and two more for two separate subway lines, not to mention the price of the loaf itself. Is that the only way to get to the store?
Letter: The rainbow had no pot, the oyster had no pearl
The things you can discover about government and politics while heading somewhere else. It all began, as perhaps most fairytales do – and dreams of quick riches for that matter – with a ‘once upon a time’ opening line.
Letter: Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?
Much has been made of Satanists wanting equal time in elementary schools to present what appears to be – given their devilish logo – a rather diabolical alternative to evangelical gatherings of children. TFP (Tradition, Family, Property) has, at last count, 11,573 signatures on a petition to stop the Satan Club from its December kickoff […]
Letter: Rental inspection referendum – death by delay?
Just hours ago, December 2, 2016, the deadline passed by which the City of Lakewood promised to provide answers to a Public Disclosure Request concerning possible communication goings-on behind closed doors pertaining to the controversial Rental Housing Safety Program.
Letter: Mr. Yuk no more, marijuana gets a new look
Now that recreational marijuana has been legal in the State of Washington since 2012, four years later there’s a “Not for Kids Warning Symbol” that will be available in a couple months. Why it took so long to create a sticker “three-quarters of an inch in height by one-half of an inch in width” would […]