Month: October 2005

The Olympia Times, not Olympia Time, is now over on the right hand side under Olympia Blogs. In addition to being another good local blog, this guy can take some serious pics. Being someone who is paid to take pictures, and fully knowledgeable of my limitations in that regard, I respect his skill.

Thurston County Democrat Discussion Group will take on the issues brought up by I-912, which seeks to revoke the recent 9.5 cent gas tax. We will also discuss progressively framing the broader issue of taxation. Tuesday, October 11, 7-9 p.m.Olympia Center222 Columbia St NWOlympia, WARoom 102 (first floor) The Discussion Group is a meeting for…

Months and months into his chairmanship, Gov. Dean’s plans are apparently in place: Making Democrats the party of values, community and reform. Armed with extensive DNC polling, Dean is consulting with party leaders in Congress, mayors and governors to recast the public’s image of Democrats with a unified message. Improving the party’s “micro-targeting,” the tactic…

This never would have happened at the Olympian, but Rick McKinnon of Olyblog tracked down Robert Schumacher, a sailor serving on the USS Olympia who not only blogs, but now blogs at Olyblog. And, if that doesn’t surprise you at all describes himself as a “mainly liberal Democrat.” Take that, Ira Knight. Obviously, the conversation…

No, he never really fixed the spelling issue, but he just took down the page with “pundant” on it for a pointless redesign of his website. If you’re wondering, yes, you can still sign waive for Ira.

Washblog had a great headline to a short post that really got to me. It referred a horsesass.org post about Microsoft giving more money to Republicans than Dems. Well, any money at all it turns out. Either way, here it is: “Linux, Apple, Open Source, Competition, Democrats.” Contrasted with the text of the post: “Windows,…

Certainly an oh crap moment: The word on the street is that Congressman Brian Baird of the 3rd District may be contemplating retirement in the not-so-distant future. Baird has spent 6 years in Congress, and recently welcomed twins into the family. It is not clear if this news relates to 2006 or 2008, but times…

Ever since I started to read Bowling Alone I’ve had this impression that stong community ties, strong civic values, are elements of progressive and Democratic communities. Specifically the level of trust people have with each other, I’ve been thinking, is a direct line to their trust of local institutions such as government. Since Democrats tend…