Marijuana sales will sprout – like the weed that it is – in Lakewood, the city joining La La Land – not the movie but its neighbors – in transitioning from holdout (bans) to handout (bucks). “Principles,” after all, opined the Tacoma News Tribune Editorial Board, “don’t keep the lights on.” And sprigs, that is […]
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Westside Story – Hard Dollars or Soft Dollars?
When you look at my first photo, do you immediately think, Tax Shelter? In 1953 I lived next door to Mr. Sandy Sandstrom, LPA. LPA or Licensed Public Accountant was a professional designation which was ultimately replaced by our modern day CPA or Certified Public Accountant designation. Eventually LPAs became extinct.
Westside Story – Welcome
Some years ago I installed a rain chain as a downspout near my front door. At the base is a recessed drain grate covered with decorative colored stones. Mother nature delivered a leaf upon the colored stones with the clear message to all those who approach our front entrance. “Dew drop in.” Rather welcoming, is […]
Lions Clubs test student sight and hearing
During 2016, members of the Lakewood First Lions Club and the Dupont Lions Club volunteered more than 760 hours to test 7,130 elementary and middle school students in 19 Clover Park and Steilacoom schools for sight and hearing issues at the request of school nurses.
Westside Story – Snow
As we press forward into our winter season, we have already been caught with some of that white powder. I am talking snow, not cocaine. Snow can make your day BEAUTIFUL. Snow can make your day UGLY. Two December 2016 photos illustrate my point.
Letter: Lakewood’s record-setting rental inspection program
What Lakewood has accomplished has never been done before. The City’s is an historic, Homeric, Guinness-World-Record-worthy entry of monumental proportions unequaled in the annals of celebrated accomplishments.
Letter: Rental Inspection Paradox
When I won the Great Cross Sound Race in 1990, a competitor’s double rowing shell was named ‘Paradocs’, appropriately enough given the pair were both doctors. Lakewood’s Rental Housing Safety Program (RHSP), paradoxically, plans to achieve after the fact – entailing a great deal of complexity in the process – what it could have done […]
Redux: Westside Story – Joe Boyle Qualifies for Olympic Games
The following Westside Story originally appeared on Tuesday, December 6. Sadly, Publisher Ben Sclair erred by not properly loading the images to the story and prolific author Joe Boyle feels “a lot of folks will have missed the full impact of the total original article.” We certainly can’t have “a lot of folks” miss “the full impact” […]
Letter: The rainbow had no pot, the oyster had no pearl
The things you can discover about government and politics while heading somewhere else. It all began, as perhaps most fairytales do – and dreams of quick riches for that matter – with a ‘once upon a time’ opening line.