Letters
Letter: Ethical (check), Legal (check), Moral – huh?
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.
Letter: Fat Check
By David Anderson
Remember how one of our dear departed council members thought it would be funny –back during the great debate over gambling in our city — to dismiss the whole matter of the so-called evils associated with convenience casinos, situated as they are on strategic corners in the city, by suggesting that those advocating for a ban on card rooms were the equivalent of fat-content checkers at fast food eateries?
Letter: Eight Ways to Get Ahead (or not)
By David Anderson
Hurry up and wait. We’ve all been there. Long lines and shorter fuses, places to go and the express-way is exasperatingly @ # $ % ^ slow. Snarled in traffic, stalled with temperatures rising (car, climate and complexion), are we there yet?
Lakewood’s New City Manager – Vending Machine or Barn Raiser?
By David Anderson
Letter: Lakewood #1 in the State for Bikini Coffee?
By David Anderson
Should the Oakbrook area Black Star Coffee stand become a bikini barista hangout/drive-by/dispensary . . . for coffee and other things they sell, Lakewood would slide into fourth place state-wide in the “Ordering-Espresso-Can-Be-Fun!
Letter: “Is Abortion a Distraction?”
By David Anderson
With the candidate filing deadline for local offices May 17th, be wary of those who promise to work at improving the economy without – as a central plank in their platform – specifics for strengthening the family.
Here’s why.
Letter: “Sorry Mr. President, I Don’t Dance”
By David Anderson
Normally it’s a once-upon-a-time event for which villains — mostly, and heroes — sparsely, are cast in roles to relive on the silver screen a tale once told. But with what’s happening on the national stage today, it’s just the reverse.
This time, in real-time, the actors are playing themselves with a sounds-familiar script. Benghazi has become the new blockbuster.
Letter: Victoria’s Secret, et al., is Not at All, Not Anymore
By David G. Anderson and Cindy Peak
Emblematic of America’s cultural demise is the Titanic; the sexualization of the most vulnerable aboard – young females – the iceberg.
If a violin was played as the unsinkable Titanic sank, what instrument will be heard when the unthinkable happens — the sinking of America’s ship-of-state?
All of them.
Letter: Lakewood sues state over RR reroute
By Don Russell, Lakewood
Since Lakewood has opted to sue the State over a potential hazard, why doesn’t Lakewood sue the State to force a cleanup of an existing hazard?
33 acre Waughop Lake is located in the center of popular Fort Steilacoom Park which in turn is located on Western State Hospital property. For the past five years Waughop Lake has been monitored for harmful algal blooms by the Tacoma Pierce County Health Department under a grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Letter: High Speed Fail Won’t
By David Anderson
Of course we out here in Tillicum wish the City of Lakewood well – in the just announced lawsuit - in derailing High Speed Fail given it’s our community that is “isolated,” and it is our neighborhood that “has the most to lose from the project.”
However, given the track record of our community in conflict with the City, my guess is this lawsuit will end up in the same circular file ours did when fighting Lakewood to keep Camp Murray traffic from running through our town.
Letter: Top Ten Reasons to Reject City Survey
By David G. Anderson
At its Study Session the evening of March 25, following the Transportation Benefit District meeting, the Lakewood City Council will survey fellow councilmembers as to whether to survey city residents on matters the council believes need surveying.
You can get the city’s rationale for the survey by clicking here, and then click on the tab labeled “New. Study Session Following Tbd, March 25, 2013” and scroll down to pages three through five.
Letter: What if?
By David Anderson
How the Seattle Mariners can win the World Series.
I was giving some thought to an article I was thinking I’d write on the decisions we sometimes think maybe we ought to give more thought to before we make them – or not – when I got sidetracked by a friend on Facebook who posted a question that began “What if?”
Letter: City Commercial: $20,000 Cash
By David Anderson
People have to heat their homes and cook their food. Given the current economic times, we didn’t think it was wise to increase that tax.
So how does spending nearly $20,000 for an infomercial reflect those valued bare-necessities?
Letter: Lila’s coat
“Lila always without fail, everyday, rain or shine, helps pick up balls, jump ropes and coats.” We know this because her teacher, Ms/Mr? Lyon, said so in a note entitled You’ve Been Caught…Doing Something Good. And now everyone who reads the Suburban Times knows it because we found this nice note in the pocket of the jacket which Lila forgot at Sunnyside Beach in Steilacoom a few days ago. We hope that Lila’s mom or dad will let us know how to return these precious things to such a helpful girl. Please phone 253 584 1528.
Letter: A new pledge… perhaps
By Irene Mazer, Lakewood
I pledge allegiance
to the elephant/donkey
and the politics for which it stands.
Two parties under greed,
with indifference to the needy
and power to the rich.
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