Everett, our former mill-town brother to the north (aren’t all Puget Sound cities above a certain age “former mill towns?) is thinking about wifi. Specifically about this company. Everett Herald: City Councilman Drew Nielsen, who sparked a discussion of the possibility at the council’s annual retreat early this month, said the city could decide whether…
Month: January 2006
For full time public servants (and public financing)
As much as I hate to praise any Republican, Dan Swecker’s HB 6659 is worthy of half-praise. It helps solve a problem that is inherent with our legislature: only people who can afford to serve ever actually do. The Washington leg is known as a hybrid: representatives and senators are paid salaries, instead of being…
Catholics not understood well by the religious right
I wasn’t going to write about this earlier today, because it didn’t surprise me that of the “Top 50 Most Influential Christians in America,” only two were Catholics and only one was a Catholic actually living in the United States (which is what I assume America is to the publishers of The Church Report. Rome…
the president of South Korea has three blogs
We sometimes talk about how cool it is that some county commissioners or congressmen blog (Oh how hip!), but President Roh Moo Hyuan has three blogs, and none of them on his official website. Rather, they are all hosted on (from what I can tell) are commercial, free, blog communities. Oranckay doesn’t think very much…
Why is Oregon different regarding the primary question?
I would normally want to make this a longer post, and I might later on some other blog, but in case I have any regular readers, maybe someone would want to clear this up for me. In Washington, despite winning popularly across the entire state, I-872 is almost totally panned by party activists. I’ve only…
Brian Baird “Town Hall Shocker”
Apparently, the Republican house majority can keep a congressman from visiting citizen soldiers from his district (thanks Olyblog). One Pissed Off Veteran (and probably more pissed off now): I just got home from a “town hall” type of meeting with my congressman, Brian Baird (Washington 3rd)… …he told an absolutely appalling story about what happened…
Watch Unity Coalition forum online
UPDATE: Watch it here. I didn’t realize until just now, but Thurston County own’s Sam Garst moderated the forum. And, he did a good job. The Unity Coalition forum will be online at TVW and on the tv (via email): Yesterday, the caucuses of the Washington State Democrats gathered the candidates for State Party Chair…
Open source county party platform
Cross posted at Betterdonkey.org: Maybe open-source is an exaggeration, every party platform is usually pretty democratic. But, there is a point to where people don’t get involved or engaged in writing the platform of the party they identify with. This year, the Thurston County Democratic Party is holding a series of open, public forums ahead…
Open source county party platform
Maybe open-source is an exaggeration, every party platform is usually pretty democratic. But, there is a point to where people don’t get involved or engaged in writing the platform of the party they identify with. This year, the Thurston County Democratic Party is holding a series of open, public forums ahead of the precinct caucuses…