With two minutes left in the half-hour March 5, 2018 presentation – obtained by Public Disclosure – by the Keller Rohrback LLP attorneys on the Purdue Pharma litigation relative to the opioid case before the Lakewood City Council, Lakewood Mayor Don Anderson asked if marijuana was a gateway drug to the opioid problem.
Moctezuma’s Mexican Restaurant Tacoma – Restaurant Review
We hadn’t been to Moctezuma’s in years, but we were taking Peg’s sister and her boyfriend out for Easter dinner and we knew they loved Moctezuma’s. Back in the 1980s when we were producing Video Realty on local cable, Moctezuma’s was one of our first advertisers. We’ve long felt a kinship for them . . […]
Letter: Stop gambling addiction – put up more signs
Yeah, that’ll work. A card room employee at Tukwila’s Macau Casino must not have read the signs. Or her boss.
Indo Asian Street Eatery – Restaurant Review
Indo Asian Street Eatery wants to provide the feeling of eating Asian street foods. The mission is simple: serve delicious, affordable food that guests will want to return to week after week. The website says the restaurant is the perfect place to experience fine Southeast Asian dining. . . but they also want to take […]
Westside Story – New Use Of Force Policy
Story – Joseph Boyle & PoliceOne There has been a lot of conversation, argument, marching, demonstrating, and window smashing over what some think is excessive use of force by police departments across America.
Bewildering and Beguiling – A Peter Review
“Peter and the Starcatcher” could have been retitled, “War of the Words.” You have to admire a script that mentions Genghis Kahn, Caesar, Napoleon and Ayn Rand in the same twenty word line. There are puns, jokes, “in” jokes, “out” jokes and perhaps even “in-between” jokes. Sometimes the plays on words are flying about so […]
Male Circumcision – Yes or No?
Outside of religion, what is the need for male circumcision? Female circumcision is too big an issue for me to take on currently. I got the news late but here it is: Genital Integrity Awareness Week 2018 takes place March 28-April 3! Perhaps, we should celebrate. How wide spread is male circumcision (the removal of […]
Forever Friends: Meet Artist John Jewell
Forever Friends is a life-sized bronze sculpture celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Curran Apple Orchard Park in University Place. Learn the story behind the exquisite life-size bronze sculpture being created for the Curran Apple Orchard Park at a “Meet the Artist” event at the UP Library on Thursday, April 12, from 6:30pm. to 8 […]
Westside Story – Lakewood Water Park
I have good news. The same City of Lakewood Think Tank that brought us the ever-popular Rental Housing Inspection Program has now come up with an inexpensive idea whereby combining old technology with innovative thinking every home in Lakewood is going to be able to enjoy a new water park style ride.