On January 23, 2017, Traffic Officer Mike McGettigan, with close to a decade of service with the Lakewood Police Department, started his day around 5:00a. The first part of Officer McGettigan’s day was devoted to traffic enforcement during the daily commute. Officer McGettigan’s next assignment involved keeping our kids safe in Lakewood school zones.
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Letter: Lakewood placing leans on all rental properties
Yes, lean is spelled correctly. The March 13, 2017 Lakewood City Council Study Session Agenda is 124 pages. A mere sliver short of half of those pages (54 to be exact), concern just one of five programs Lakewood already has in place (the Rental Housing Safety Program being the sixth), by which to address property […]
Letter: Rental Inspection Program is no more
No, not Lakewood. Not yet. San Luis Obispo (SLO), California. At its March 7 meeting, the SLO City Council voted 6-1 to repeal their nearly two-year-old rental inspection program (RIP).
Westside Story – Chaos To Calm
When a writer crafts a story on any subject, there is always the possibility for a negative or positive perspective. Writing negative stories about law enforcement seems to be a current national pastime, almost a sporting event. Some negative police stories are justified, but most are not. Much of the negative press, TV news, and […]
Westside Story – Willie Sutton Wannabe
Myth has it a newspaper reporter asked Willie Sutton, who had became famous during his 40-year bank robbing career starting in the 1920s, why he robbed banks. Willie replied, “Because, that’s where the money is.”
Westside Story – Snow Job
Snow job. No, this article is not intended to be a snow job. I want to talk about snow and a job that is important to all of us. When it snows in the Pacific Northwest, schools are 2 hours late, colleges cancel classes, church is 1 hour late and many people do not go […]
Westside Story – Lakewood City Council Deserves Praise
On February 23, 2017, an article titled, ACLU raises concerns with Lakewood’s rewrite of panhandling law, was published in The News Tribune and later in The Suburban Times. Our Lakewood City Council deserves praise for their efforts to eliminate the festering homeless panhandling problem that has attacked our communities like a societal cancer.
Westside Story – Sign Of The Times
As I travel around the planet and I do not have to travel far, I constantly run into signs that cause me to scratch my head and make that unmistakable utterance, “Huuunnnhh?” or that all too familiar hip phrase, “Say what?” Let me show you what I mean.
Letter: The danger of RIP-tides and Rental Inspection Programs
Found near beaches where children splash happily about in shallow water while older and braver siblings wander further out to jump the waves – all blissfully unaware of the danger to themselves and their recently constructed fairy-tale home castle – are rip currents sweeping the unsuspecting out to sea.