Lakewood

If you were on the vetting committee — if in fact there were a vetting committee — who would you pick to win, the tortoise or the hare, and why? ‘What’s a vetting committee,’ you ask?  That’s a good question and the very best place to begin something we dare not take for granted.  I Googled it.  Here’s […]

By David Anderson What if you found out you’d been playing Monopoly all wrong all your life? Endlessly circling the board hoping to throw the right number on the dice enabling you to land on the right property giving you the opportunity you’d otherwise never have had  to sell all you owned to purchase that one […]

By David Anderson Injuries were minor but the insults were major in cross-the-country reaction to the I-5 bridge collapse. The New York Times calls it “the creeping train of detoured vehicles,” referencing the new circuitous route of 67,000 cars and trucks that daily had crossed over the Skagit River before the four-lane bridge was bumped […]

By David Anderson Anticipating council action to put a measure on the ballot to raise taxes, a reason to vote no. The casinos in Lakewood can’t afford more taxes but the citizens can?

By David Anderson The U.S. Park Service, and for that matter the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), doesn’t want to deal with trash anymore. They want you to.

By David Anderson Dear students, Effective immediately, your teaching staff generally and your administration most particularly will no longer be held to standards requiring conduct that is morally upright nor morally reprehensible as we educators have no idea what ‘moral’ means.

By David Anderson The Tacoma News Tribune is reporting 30 applicants are in the mix for new city manager in Lakewood with vending machine or barn raiser as two possible leadership models.  Frank Benest, city manager of Palo Alto, together with Rick Cole, former mayor of Pasadena, describe the difference: