Submitted by David Anderson. Because if an incumbent or challenger does not speak – and act – unequivocally and emphatically on behalf of clear constitutional mandates, then he or she has knowingly, or otherwise, relinquished his or her primary “responsibilities to the encroaching administrative state.” And then, what other constitutional freedoms – a nonpartisan issue […]
Accepting Responsibility and Making Ethical Decisions
Submitted by Don Doman. In the feature film, True Grit, Mattie Ross searches for Tom Chaney. Chaney is wanted in Texas for killing a senator, but she is after him for stealing her father’s money and killing him. She hires Marshal Rooster Cogburn to help her track him down. When she meets up with Chaney. […]
Chance to win 40+ Seattle Seahawks items
Submitted by Eric Warn. Here’s an opportunity to win over 40 Seattle Seahawks items, including a signed helmet by Steve Largent, Pro football hall of fame member who spent 14 years with the Seattle Seahawks. The cost for a raffle ticket is only $5 and you can purchase them at Heritage Bank in Lakewood which […]
Letter: Navigation in life from A to B is most helpful if
Submitted by David Anderson. The other day a first-time boat renter, first-time-on-the-lake fisherman and his family, headed out for what was supposed to be a search to entice the big one to bite. It turned out to be a search all right but not for what was under water. He developed engine trouble. In this […]
FAB Fest Features Wendy Hinman
Submitted by Susanne Bacon. Sailing the Seven Seas – somehow this has been lore since the ancient times. Think of the Odyssey or Sinbad the Seafarer. Or, think of one woman who did it for seven years, covering 34,000 miles with her husband on a 31-foot sailboat. Wendy Hinman. The adventuress and speaker is also […]
FAB Fest Features Strives of Life
Submitted by Susanne Bacon. Sometimes it’s hard to place a novel into a specific genre. And maybe we shouldn’t even try, because they might not want to fit into any specific drawer at all. Like these three new novels that we might loosely place amongst contemporary women’s fiction. They deal with human struggles, with people […]
Letter: Down the drain – addictive products and, sadly, the people – including governments – who consume them
Submitted by David Anderson. “One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination” (The Economist?, volume 411, number 8891). Now, those same sewers are increasingly clogged with cannabis growers’ waste products. […]
Live Guests will be Swimming Upstream with Dorothy Wilhelm on Aug. 24
Submitted by Dorothy Wilhelm. It promises to be damp but exciting. Audience members are welcome to watch on August 24 when Dorothy Wilhelm records Swimming Upstream at the Lakewood Senior Activity Center 9112 Lakewood Dr SW, Lakewood, WA 98499. 9:00 – Dorothy will be sharing her own audience involvement story “Take Me To The Fair” […]
Parkland Pita Pit – Restaurant Review
Submitted by Don Doman. Peggy and I stopped in at Saturn Barter on Pacific Avenue to scout out some new restaurants. Both Josh and Ryan recommended the Pita Pit in Parkland on the corner of Garfield and Pacific (just a block from Pacific Lutheran University). They both said the same thing, “It’s like Subway, but […]