Letters

With two minutes left in the half-hour March 5, 2018 presentation – obtained by Public Disclosure – by the Keller Rohrback LLP attorneys on the Purdue Pharma litigation relative to the opioid case before the Lakewood City Council, Lakewood Mayor Don Anderson asked if marijuana was a gateway drug to the opioid problem.

Yeah, that’ll work. A card room employee at Tukwila’s Macau Casino must not have read the signs. Or her boss.

As the first ‘winners’ of Lakewood’s lottery receive notice that their presence, as landlords or the landlord’s representative, will be required when an inspector makes his rounds of the interior of their private property, Seattle’s landlords are celebrating a recent judge’s ruling.

In response to “one of the largest punitive awards ever in Washington State for police use-of-force and wrongful death,” significantly involving Lakewood, the multi-jurisdictional Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) force has eliminated “the word ‘jackpot’ from its operational lexicon.”

Just so we’re all tracking together on the much-anticipated Positive Track Control (PTC), sometimes called Train Control, without which development 12 trains per day will not be barreling through Lakewood at 79 mph, don’t count on PTC to prevent vehicle-train accidents at grade crossings.

What is it about puddles and raindrops, blue rubber boots with green frog designs, and yellow rain jackets with hoods not up that beg for a leap-flying, pigtails-scattering, peals-of-laughter-the-air-splitting, water-and-mud-splattering (them and us and the camera lens) kersploosh that is so beautifully, and importantly, a part of childhood?

Stormy Daniels, whose birthday is today, is one reason. As I’m writing this, a father and his two daughters came down to go fishing at our lake-front public dock.