You’ll have opportunity to voice your opinion to the Lakewood City Council when it holds its public hearing on the proposed Rental Inspection Program (RIP) July 5, and while there have been a number of articles written about the matter in this publication here are some additional thoughts to consider:
Letter: Toilet taxes and rental inspectors
The King County Council wants to impose fees on septic systems. The Lakewood City Council wants to impose fees on rental units. King County’s Council wants “an easement onto private properties so that investigators can check septic systems.” Lakewood’s Council wants city-approved inspectors to enter private rental properties to check on all manner of things. […]
Westside Story – Rental Inspection Program
The City of Lakewood has proposed a brand new bureaucratic program called Rental Inspection Program or R.I.P. An opportunity for public comment will occur at Lakewood City Hall on July 5, 2016, at 7:00p. Reference Mr. David Anderson’s letter published in The Suburban Times on 06-25-16 for more details regarding R.I.P. For viewpoints on both […]
Letter: More introspection on Lakewood’s proposed Rental Inspection Program
If there’s already a process by which to uphold due process is yet another process – a sub-process if you will to, truth be told, five other processes, so that somehow realized is the cumulative purpose of all six processes – is that a solution in search of a problem?
Letter: ‘Probably his last trip’
There’s a fellow out on the water right now fishing in one of our rental boats who may not make it back. That was the gloomy assessment of his daughter who, together with a couple of his friends also on board, sighed over the phone when making the reservation that he is dying of cancer: […]
Westside Story – Guys & Dolls
Indeed, retirement is an adventure. Remember my sharing with you that I divided my life into three chapters? Chapter I – Business. Chapter II – Deputy Sheriff. Chapter III – The Arts. Recently while on the East Coast a long distance phone call brought a Chapter III opportunity my way. I was invited to join […]
Letter: Today I saved a life
Ok, it was only a baby field mouse. But it’s still a life and I saved it from a crow. I’ve neither a great affinity for mice nor necessarily an aversion to crows although I did have a pet white rat with only one eye when I was in grade school and I very much […]
Westside Story – Two Bucks For Breakfast
Most of us know that in the City of Lakewood, we are, for the most part, peacefully co-existing with an abundance of wildlife, including deer. On numerous occasions we might see a doe. I have published several of my own photos of doe sightings.
Westside Story – Mole Busters
It is dark outside and tired inside, but I have a desire to do a little writing before I go lights out. What should I write about tonight? I know, I will use my recent visit to the Lakewood Hysterical Mole Museum as a springboard into my next story. Let’s talk moles. There are two […]