What marijuana, tobacco products, automobiles, trains and their ilk have in common: advertising, and a too-gullible public. ‘Doggonit!’ exclaimed the owner of the puppy, pursuant to the pet doctor’s presumption that her beloved pet had probably swallowed pot in a public park.
Tillicum
The trees have spoken
Some sort of new protest I guess. Even the trees want to get on with the season, kids to get out of the classroom and into nature’s classroom.
Letter: Public hearing on marijuana May 7
The proposal before the Lakewood City Council is to either prohibit everything that has to do with marijuana or allow it. Written comments can be submitted prior to the hearing to the City Clerk, 6000 Main Street SW, Lakewood, WA 98499, or emailed prior to 4:30 p.m., May 7.
Letter: ‘Roots and Wings’
Coming to the Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood this next October is a four-week parenting class which, chances are – as the community board has begun planning – we’ll entitle ‘Roots and Wings’ attributed to Hodding Carter from his 1953 book “Where Main Street Meets the River.”
Letter: Lakewood to become Lakeweed?
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.
Letter: Stop gambling addiction – put up more signs
Yeah, that’ll work. A card room employee at Tukwila’s Macau Casino must not have read the signs. Or her boss.
Letter: Seattle’s Rental law rejected by court, next up – Lakewood, Washington?
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.
Letter: “Jackpot” a term no longer to be used by Metro SWAT as having ‘recovered’ hostage
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.”
Letter: FYI on PTC
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.