My son has recently graduated from a prestigious local university, and, while having interviewed with numerous local businesses, hasn’t been offered a position.

So we’re thinking to start our own new business together, and Kirkland being a fine address, we may be looking at possible locations here to rent.

Having said that, the record of Kirkland in recent times in terms of its attitude toward business, family or otherwise, has been spotty.

Witness the graffiti abatement effort not long ago wherein a city employee in a snazzy PT Cruiser would come visit your place of business when it got “tagged,” snap a photo and send you a notice of infraction costing a thousand dollars and giving you three days to abate the graffiti yourself.

How are we seriously going to look at a location in Kirkland if some such foolishness in municipal government were to crop up again?

So I’m writing my neighbors in Kirkland to consider your vote carefully and vote for Toby Nixon for City Council.

I’ve mentioned this to Toby and he’s as shocked by this as some of you reading this must be. We have a lot of empty store fronts downtown and Totem Lake is seriously ghosted out.

Please vote for Toby and see what doesn’t happen in municipal circles as well as what is likely to happen based on Toby’s accomplishments in Olympia. I endorse Toby.

Miles F. Holden, Kirkland