To Know

Faulty circuits appear to be far less the cause of fires in Lakewood apartments as faulty cooks. Perhaps mandatory cooking classes would be in order?

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.”

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?

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.”

“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 […]