Mid July 2017 marked the beginning of our 20th annual cross country motorcycle trip called the BAMR. The Suburban Times is a family friendly newspaper, so lets just say my acronym BAMR stands for Big Annual Motorcycle Ride. Seven of us from Washington State, California, Montana, Kentucky and Indiana meet once a year for this […]
Lakewood
Westside Story – Make A Decision
Here is a solid piece of unsolicited advice. When you come to a fork in the road, take it and don’t look back.
Westside Story – Tipping Point
As I travel around our planet, I am constantly amazed at what there is to see. No, I am not talking about the solar eclipse. I am talking about the genius move depicted in my photo below.
Opinion: Council elections, Rental Inspections – be careful how you vote
As you compare candidates for Lakewood (WA) City Council in the upcoming election, consider that all four incumbents voted for the Rental Housing Safety Program (RHSP).
Westside Story – People Are People
It was pushing towards 9:00a early one morning when I parked directly in front of the entrance to the Lakewood Towne Center Starbucks. A young woman was standing outside the open passenger door of a minivan parked next to me.
Letter: “I like to think we’re not most people.”
I thought I had set the parking brake. Evidently not.
Letter: Shopping Carts, Rental Inspections and a common-sense solution
As the City of Lakewood, Washington celebrates this month of August its one-year anniversary of the passage of Ordinance No. 644 instituting the Rental Housing Safety Program at an annual estimated cost to taxpayers of $175,000, not counting $133,000 for the software to support the program, bypassing certainly a more cost-effective alternative in simply communicating […]
Letter: Not hard to imagine what Rental Inspection software could do
If house-cleaning robots can collect data as they sweep up your house, regularly updating maps of floor plans, as well as the layout of home furnishings so as to “avoid toppling over lamps and ramming into your furniture,” think of what software utilized by a city-approved inspector of your rental could do.
Letter: Hot August nights and the Rental Inspection Program
It was on this night – August 10 – one year ago that “the public comment session about Federal Heights’ (Colorado) controversial rental inspection program was abruptly cut short ‘in the interest of public safety,’ according to City Manager Jacqueline Halburnt.”