Did you see the recent TNT article announcing the City of Lakewood’s intention to consider adding a $20.00 tax to our vehicle license tab renewals?
Westside Story – Are We Are Turning Upside Down?
Back in 1964 I had a college roommate, Melvin R. Hibbard, Jr., who is still one of my dearest friends. I am the only guy on the planet who persists in calling him Melvin R. Van Iderstine, Jr. Because I love words, I continue to enjoy calling him that even though I fully realize it is not even his real last name.
Letter: Pothole, Pavement – and Payment – Potpourri
Survey results are in. You said no. Doesn’t matter.
When then-Lakewood City Manager Andrew Neiditz (TNT, November 24, 2012) proposed a tax increase on Lakewood’s residents – specifically for electricity and gas utilities that would have generated an additional $350,000 annually to help balance the 2013-14 budget – Lakewood’s Mayor at the time, Doug Richardson, said “people have to heat their homes and cook their food. Given the current economic times, we didn’t think it was wise to increase that tax.”
Letter: My Father
“Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?”
My father served in Italy during World War II in the 10th Mountain Division. He never surrendered. Never left a man behind. Never compromised his principles.
Letter: City Committee Openings – Robots May Apply
For “jobs too dirty, dangerous or dull,” robots excel.
There are three vacancies – one-third of the nine – on the City of Lakewood’s Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC).
The job description requires obtaining “citizen input and advising the City Council in developing and monitoring public safety policies” – like shopping carts and dunk tanks.
Letter: When Scathing Rebukes Are In Order
“I think your style alienates people from your cause more than educate and activate them,” writes a critic.
There comes a point where it becomes more than obvious that those with the responsibility (Public Safety Advisory Committee) to actually perform their duties in keeping with their self- and council-mandated job description: aren’t.
In his book “Boards That Make a Difference,” author John Carver describes the common malady of boards that as to making a difference: don’t.
Beware Of Identity Theft With Online Transactions
By Don Doman The progress in science and technology has resulted in the more frequent use of telephones, computers and satellite guided gadgets. Though technology has been brought down from its complex and highly elevated position to our fingertips where everything is operational with a touch or a click, there are its downsides too. One […]
Letter: The Tanking Public Safety Advisory Committee
Dunk tanks – based upon both the volume of water they hold and the volume of words by which the members of the Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) held-forth in discussing dunk tanks – evidently matter more than a discussion of the Lakewood Police Department’s Use of Force Policy (UFP).
The April 2nd minutes of the PSAC – as found in the May 19 Agenda Packet (p.024) for the Lakewood City Council – contain 108 words dedicated to in-depth dunk tank deliberations.
Westside Story – Dave Anderson – Constructive Voice & Positive Force
In case you missed the recent News Tribune story titled “Tillicum steps up to support youth,” I wanted to give you a second chance to learn what David Anderson and his band of Tillicum parents are doing for our Tillicum youth. For decades, David Anderson and I have suffered with each other’s opposing opinions on most issues. Mr. Anderson and I can almost […]