On August 1, 2016, at 7:00p I sat in a front row seat to observe Lakewood City Council process their decision related to the Rental Registration & Safety Inspection Program (RRSIP).
Letter: Saving America
There’s of course not enough detergent to clean – much less clothesline to hang – all the dirty laundry that seems an appropriate analogy to describe what’s wrong with the U.S. (and us, for that matter) but here’s just two quick examples from recent headlines: “A former Stanford University swimmer gets a six-month jail sentence […]
Westside Story – Mandatory Ignition Interlock Can Solve Lakewood’s DUI Problem
The City of Lakewood’s current proposed Rental Registration & Safety Inspection Program is an idea being considered to solve Lakewood’s slumlord problem. The solution method our city is considering for Lakewood’s slumlord problem can best be described as, INVOLVE & PUNISH EVERYBODY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. All good landlords, good property managers and good tenants […]
Westside Story – Thank A Cop
I have driven down Gravelly Lake Drive SW past Harold A. Allen Company for close to 5 decades. Hal Allen, second generation owner of Allen Company, was my friend, mentor, and employer when I served Harold Allen Company as an Associate Real Estate Broker and Commercial Manager in the 1970s and 1980s.
Letter: A portrait of perseverance: Sheriffs finally put infant’s headstone to rest
If going the extra mile is commendatory, and it is, then this that follows is a story of a law enforcement agency whose members climbed the summit. Four years ago, an engraved headstone was found in a ditch alongside a highway in Lewis County. Every effort made to properly locate the baby’s memorial marker was unsuccessful.
Westside Story – Huff & Puff & Blow Your Door Down
One of my avid readers, following my series of articles written in my effort to help the Lakewood City Council and Lakewood citizens understand how unfair and wrong the proposed Rental Registration and Safety Inspection Program (RRISP) is, asked me an on target question. My reader asks, “How will the City of Lakewood Safety […]
Letter: Today I’ll be able to hear again
When I’m at city council meetings and have signed up for my three-minutes of fame – speaking my mind at the microphone – I’ve forewarned whoever is sitting next to me that when my name is called could they let me know?
Westside Story – Dunk-A-Cop Raises $1,426.05
Once upon a time, they made a place called City of Lakewood, Washington, not to be confused with the town of Lakewood up north in King County, Washington or Lakewood, Colorado or Lakewood, California for that matter. I am talking about our Lakewood.
Westside Story – Public Safety Advisory Committee
Now that the City of Lakewood has changed the name of their proposed Rental Inspection Program (RIP) by adding the word SAFETY to create a new name which reads Rental Registration & Safety Inspection Program (RRSIP), it only makes sense for City Council to request that the city’s Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) become involved […]