By David Anderson From learning to drive to learning about life, girls need their dads. Mexican gun running; State Department lying; IRS conservative targeting; DOJ accused of spying; Sebelius out HHS fundraising; NSA cell phone monitoring; Holder to stay, he’s insisting; Obama concedes Plan-B ruling; gun control fires kept burning; and a partridge in a […]
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Letter: The Biggest Fish Ever
By David Anderson How important is a story of the biggest catch ever? At the boathouse we give away free coffee for good fish stories which, actually, isn’t saying much since even without a good fish story we also say “If you can drink it you can have it.”
Letter: How a Fisherman Gets Hooked
By David Anderson We’d fished the entire day and caught nothing. Until that final cast. Just a stone’s throw from where the Little Michelle River intersects the much bigger Nisqually, there’s a pool, deep and dark, a back-eddy created by a bend in the broad and otherwise very rapidly moving water.
Letter: Going Somewhere?
By David Anderson, president, Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association City of Lakewood representatives will be making a presentation to the Tillicum Community on Thursday, June 6th, 6:30 P.M. at the Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. to give a traffic count (and an account) of traffic “flow.” This is a picture (below) of traffic — thanks to […]
Letter: The Tortoise and the Hare Run for Office
If you were on the vetting committee — if in fact there were a vetting committee — who would you pick to win, the tortoise or the hare, and why? ‘What’s a vetting committee,’ you ask? That’s a good question and the very best place to begin something we dare not take for granted. I Googled it. Here’s […]
Letter: Monopolizing at Life
By David Anderson What if you found out you’d been playing Monopoly all wrong all your life? Endlessly circling the board hoping to throw the right number on the dice enabling you to land on the right property giving you the opportunity you’d otherwise never have had to sell all you owned to purchase that one […]
Letter: Purge “The Purge”
By David Anderson Planning on seeing “The Purge,” coming to theaters June 7? The R-rated Sci-Fi not-likely-to-be-a-financial-flop flick given recent fanfare has 23,739 thumbs-up folks frolicking to its YouTube official trailer.
Letter: Troubled Bridges over Washington’s Waters
By David Anderson Injuries were minor but the insults were major in cross-the-country reaction to the I-5 bridge collapse. The New York Times calls it “the creeping train of detoured vehicles,” referencing the new circuitous route of 67,000 cars and trucks that daily had crossed over the Skagit River before the four-lane bridge was bumped […]
Letter: Tax Increase on Property in Lakewood for Roads – Vote No
By David Anderson Anticipating council action to put a measure on the ballot to raise taxes, a reason to vote no. The casinos in Lakewood can’t afford more taxes but the citizens can?