A few years ago I rode my Harley Davidson motorcycle to Sturgis, South Dakota to attend the Black Hills Motorcycle Rally. While wandering around downtown Sturgis, I noticed a single family house just off the main street with a giant red and white banner marking the location as the Official Sturgis Hells Angels Clubhouse.
To Ponder
Breaking Away – Life Free of Cable
We kept talking about it . . . a friend kept suggesting it . . . we kept paying out good money every month for old movies and PBS. Finally, for Christmas our daughter gave my wife a Kindle and paid for a year’s subscription to Amazon Prime. At the same time, our daughter-in-law gave […]
Letter: Marijuana showdown in Lakewood
As leaders in the City of Lakewood, Washington consider the ten pages (pp.090-100), and two options of either allowing or prohibiting retail marijuana, even as we head toward Super Bowl 52, there is a new player that may suit up and enter the game should House Bill 2336 succeed in this current legislative session: the […]
Foldscopes: Every Picture Tells a Story
This is the third article featuring Richard Dorsett’s trip to Asia to distribute Foldscopes, the fully functional microscope, which users construct by origami principles. The Rotary Club of Tacoma #8 funded the Foldscopes for adventurer and hiking and biking enthusiast Richard Dorsett: Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which […]
Westside Story – IDIOTS
While I may be a nobody, under the protective umbrella of the First Amendment to our US Constitution, I have the inalienable right to give new names to stuff. This right is affectionately known as Freedom of Speech. A couple of paragraphs from now, I am going to exercise my First Amendment right.
Beef Stroganoff? Prime Rib Gravy!
In my article about Ponders Corner (https://thesubtimes.com/2017/12/06/ponders-corner/) I mentioned buying a can of Beef Stroganoff from a small grocery store a couple hundred yards away from my parents’ motel when I was a teenager. All I had to do was boil up some noodles and open the can and add a little butter in a […]
Home from Home: Trolley Trips
“Where would you want our new home to be?” My husband asked me over the phone. We’d been separated by his reposting to the United States, and I was still in Germany waiting for my visa. I had the anticipation I wouldn’t hold a job immediately after arriving in the US. And I wouldn’t need […]
Letter: What do Sasquatch, mushrooms, apple pie and rent control have in common?
We were told in this current shortened legislative session that bills were a premium and thus our appeal for a review – if not repeal – of rental inspection programs was not going to happen.
Westside Story – $15,000,000
On January 15, 2018, The Suburban Times shared an article published by the Tacoma News Tribune titled, TNT: Judge upholds verdict against Lakewood in shooting of unarmed man. The court ruling has to do with a May 23, 2013, officer-involved shooting (OIS) incident in Fife, Washington and the Pierce County Metro SWAT Team led by […]