Month: July 2006

Run down of the Olympia city council committee meeting I went to An idea to expand library services in Oly for $10,000 and up to 2 FTEs

From Community Mobilization: My fear is that as we use nice site and networks that we will simply put on blinder to outside opinion and ideas. As we exist in a closed world with similar minded friends are we creating a large collection of echo-chambers and eradicating discussion and discourse? As our country and even…

Hat tip to Rick. Rich Nafziger ealier this month launched Naflog, the first blog of an elected official (that I know of) in Olympia (aside from a couple really nice PCOs). As a school board member, he blogs about educational issues, and to his great credit, it seem that he has put the word out…

This is the second of my irregular series keeping an eye on Andy Maris over at Thurston Pundits. I did my first post without really intending to make it a series, but I guess since this is the second, let’s go ahead and serialize it. This came about because I’ve tried commenting on his blog,…

When he heard that a former Tenino city councilmember was beginning his quixotic campaign for his state house seat, Sam Hunt said: “First of all, I think it’s healthy to have opposition. It’s a two-party system and entering into the debate and priorities, I don’t see anything wrong with that,” Hunt said. “The system is…

Ryan Blenthen at the Times wrote a column about engaging folks between 18 and 35. Two briefings produced by Democratic and Republican pollsters and put out by Young Voter Strategies are a great example of political parent-ism: chock-full of statistics, and different rosy interpretations on the same numbers. To be fair, party strategists are the…

For the past couple weeks comments have been pilling up here at Olympia Time, and I was too dumb to do anything about it. What. A. Gomer. Anyway, sorry to Kari, Mark (the nice libertarian), Brenda and Switzer. Emmett owes you something nice.

I have a surprisingly lot to say on this topic. But, here is the good part: Libraries don’t just provide recreational services. If they did, there would be little argument from for folding the Library Board. Actually, since recreational reading isn’t much in terms of a government service, I wouldn’t argue when they started cutting…

Who ever ends up buying the King County Journal could end up on the better end of the Puget Sound newspaper wars, or at the much cooler end. If the eventual buyer of the Journal (and its other properties) The Journal has been suffering while the PI and the Times position themselves for a time…

Eric, the new guy at SoundPolitics is doing a good job so far, I think. He doesn’t employ the term “nutroots,” going for the more refined “netroots enthusiasts.” Which is very nice, I’ll take that. I’m an enthusiast of many things, the netroots included. But, he doesn’t know the difference between Wheat and a Five…