By David Anderson The City of Lakewood is contemplating a special election on Feb.11, 2014, likely for the purpose of raising property taxes to pay for street improvements. The election would cost Lakewood taxpayers an estimated $99,515.50 according to figures supplied by the Election’s Cost department of the Pierce County Auditor’s office. In contrast, had Lakewood’s City […]
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Letter: When is a Survey not a Survey?
By David Anderson There is a troublesome juxtaposition of recent goings-on at Lakewood City Hall. Page 11 of the city’s “Fall 2013 Newsletter and Recreation Guide” delivered to mailboxes throughout the city in recent days indicates there will be a “Street and Parks Survey Coming Soon.”
Letter: WARNING – Mature Content, Possibly Offensive
By David Anderson Recent articles posted here in this publication provided links to national headlines concerning a furor over the explicitly sexual nature of two books that are suggested reading for 11th graders in all 295 school districts in Washington as well as 44 other states, three territories and the District of Columbia all of which have […]
Letter: Why it Pays to be Poor
By David Anderson If you live in a poor community, consider yourself rich. Although that’s both good news and bad news. For starters, your chances of being cut off or run down by a Vanquish – Aston Martin’s V-12, 460-horsepower, $228,000 car – are slim to none.
Letter: More Discretion Advised, Part II
By David Anderson Quite evidently there’s more to the new Common Core state educational standards than meets the eye and if parents are asleep they’ll miss it. The books “The Bluest Eye” and “Dreaming in Cuban” are both on the Clover Park School District’s (CPSD) – and on every school district’s in 46 states – […]
Letter: Calling the Poor, the Ignorant, the Foolish
By David Anderson The Patch wants to “improve the lives of residents.” So play the lottery. The Lakewood Patch wants you to play the lottery: “What would you do with $245 million?”
Westside Story – Free Defensive Firearms Classes
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Back in the early 1990s I met a cool guy by the name of Deputy Dan Hacker. He was cool then and he is cool now. Dan, always looking for a way to be a helpful to our community, serves as a Pierce County Sheriff’s deputy. For as long […]
Westside Story – Daughter, Harleys & Beer
By Joe Boyle I remember it like it was yesterday. In September, 1997, the last thing my daughter said to me before she trudged off to seminary to become a Lutheran minister was, “Now Dad, what ever you do, don’t buy a motorcycle. She did not want me to buy a motorcycle because she was […]
Letter: Rivers Without Boundaries
By David Anderson Rivers without boundaries are a swamp. Alligators inhabit swamps. An ancient proverb declares that it is beholden upon fathers to set boundaries for their children. Boundaries keep children from being eaten. Leaders likewise are to have the temerity to establish what shall define their community.