Twenty-eight year old Patrick O’Meara was shot dead at a Tillicum residence by Lakewood Police shortly before midnight June 18, 2013. Could it have ended differently?
To Ponder
Westside Story – Lost & Found
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle We call this guy I know, whose real name is Jon George, the “Looker”. He does not subscribe to the idea, “Finder’s Keeper’s, Loser’s Weeper’s”. Here is the “Looker’s” story.
Letter: Why I Love My Dishwasher
A friend on Facebook this morning wrote that she is “in the market for a new dishwasher,” that hers had been “out of order” for some time now. The friend was soliciting recommendations on “why you love your dishwasher.” So people were responding to her in-need-of-dishwasher-recommendations request with the features of theirs that they liked: energy […]
Letter: When Push Comes To Shove – Taxpayers Tossed
‘When push comes to shove it’s no longer love,’ wrote one pundit about the importance of maintaining healthy relationships. The author could just as well have been reflecting on the relationship between elected officials and the citizens to which they once-and-again promised to be true. How much the public viewpoint actually matters to politicians always comes […]
Westside Story – Are People Dense?
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Recently after an 11 day layover in Milford, Delaware, I fired up my Harley and headed north towards Boston to visit my nephew, Paul Joseph, who was named after his favorite uncle. It was only 442 miles, so I should have arrived around 4:30 PM. As it turned out […]
Letter: Whoohoo for the Choo-choo
At 11:11 a.m. (EST) on 11/11/11, Las Vegas set a new Guinness World Record: the largest pair of fuzzy dice ever built – the total dots on the face numbering a-you-guessed-it 11. Vegas is nothing if not a strip of indescribable scale, scope, stimulation and over-the-top, literally larger-than-life extravagance. Perhaps for these reasons Nevada ranked first in America […]
Letter: Don’t Shoot
Two men. Two separate but recent incidents. One of the men is dead, the other alive. The dead one held a cap pistol. The living held a knife. Both were surrounded and outnumbered by far more heavily armed law enforcement. One was outlined in chalk. The other is still being sought. Their respective stories are linked above.
Westside Story – The Suburban Times Roving Traffic Cam
Story & Video – Joseph Boyle While he has never actually told me this, I think one of the reasons Publisher Ben Sclair keeps me around The Suburban Times is because he recognizes that I am a prolific idea guy. In fact I have a new idea right now. I am calling it The Suburban […]
Westside Story – Dolce
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle We live in a really big country. The USA is huge. I like using the word “huge”. My 3 year old grandson reacquainted me with the word huge when he said, “Papa Joe, your mustache is huge.” The USA is especially huge when explored from a Harley Davidson motorcycle.