By David Anderson How the Seattle Mariners can win the World Series. I was giving some thought to an article I was thinking I’d write on the decisions we sometimes think maybe we ought to give more thought to before we make them – or not – when I got sidetracked by a friend on […]
To Ponder
Letter: Game Over – Legislative bill would eliminate Lottery games…
By David Anderson It was simply called ‘The Game.’ The Game that featured “The Play.” The year was 1982. Stanford’s band had rushed onto the field thinking the game was over. Tubas, drummers, all wildly celebrating I suppose. I wasn’t there so I can only imagine the scene. Wait. What?
Letter: City Commercial: $20,000 Cash
By David Anderson People have to heat their homes and cook their food. Given the current economic times, we didn’t think it was wise to increase that tax. So how does spending nearly $20,000 for an infomercial reflect those valued bare-necessities?
Westside Story – The Science Guy
Story & Video – Joseph Boyle Even those who know me well are not aware that in the early 1960s an undergraduate future psychologist tested and measured my young college student brain. It was determined that I had a rare highly evolved scientific brain, much like that of Albert Einstein (b. 1879 d. 1955) or Nicolaus […]
Westside Story – Where he is, is where I was
Story – Joseph Boyle, Photo – Hayley Austin Just this past January 31, 2013, I attended a Law Enforcement Academy Officer Graduation at Washington State Criminal Justice Academy in Burien, Washington. The ceremony was meaningful to me for two reasons. Reason Number 1 – OUT WITH THE OLD: I have been blessed with a law enforcement career, which […]
Westside Story – Chevron News Assault
Story & Video – Joseph Boyle Yesterday I pulled into the Chevron gas station at 108th St SW and Bridgeport Way SW for the mundane, but necessary purpose of filling my gas tank. We used to call them Chevron Service Stations, because they actually provided service. Back in 1959 I started buying gas when we […]
Westside Story – Education & Robots
Story & Video – Joseph Boyle Recently in the course of my job, I interviewed a 15-year-old kid. I asked him how he was doing in school. He said, “Fine.” I had spoken to his school counselor, so I knew better. I asked a follow-up question. “Are you getting straight A’s?” His head hung down […]
Letter: Why We Argue
By David Anderson “Nothing tells us more about people than the opinions they hold and their reasons for holding them.” We were crossing Death Valley and you just simply cannot do that without stopping somewhere along the trail, enticing all your little family to exit the air-conditioned van leaving their water bottles behind and belly-up […]
Letter: Let’s Party
By David Anderson Why is Trudi Inslee, First Lady of Washington State, appearing on stage with – for lack of a more discreet term – ladies of the night? Trudi Inslee, wife of Washington State Governor Jay Inslee, will join Miss Indigo Blue, Head Mistress of Academy of Burlesque and Reigning Queen of Burlesque 2012; and Inga […]