Month: November 2006

UPDATE: Great comment thread here. This is a great way to deal with divisive issues: The Spokane Indians Baseball Club, in conjunction with the Spokane Tribe of Indians, today unveiled new team logos and uniforms. This is believed to be the first time that a professional sports team has worked in conjunction with a local…

Mayor Mark Foutch and councilmember Joe Hyer get back to me on my idea: My email: I was following the discussion the last couple of weeks regarding the possible closure of the after school programs at Olympia Middle Schools. Has there been any discussion about bringing the Boys and Girls Club into the formula? Olympia,…

The city of Olympia is considering lopping $18,000 of its budget by either charging for an after school program they run out of our local middle schools, or by cutting it out completly. This reminded me of a decision the council made earlier this year to cut a down down youth drop in program (saving…

Last week was a hoot, this week is about more civility and police taking pictures of people and what they do with those pictures.

Already, before I woke up today, people had already lined up and qued into stores across the country. All the craziness — trampling, running through stores to get deeply discounted DVD players — would have already happened before I even had any coffee. I’m not saying there was any craziness this year, I haven’t really…

Rep. Hunt’s letter from this morning: State needs program to reach young voters The Olympian’s article on the recent mock student election underscores the concern many of us have about the “political literacy” of the next generation of voters. All of us should be alarmed that only 4.4 percent of eligible 18- to 21-year-olds in…

This is something I noticed a couple of days ago, but a visitor who googled “Terry Thompson political consultant” and stumbled upon my post about Terry Thompson not understanding blogs reminded me to write about it. When you look for Terry on the internet (with either “Olympia” or “political consultant” attached to it) you get…

Sigh. A few years ago the UK began a major technological push in their national government that included a Local E-Democracy section, which according to David Wilcox of Designing for Civil Society, are coming into their own. This can happen here too. Which may explain the reaction of an outgoing Brit pol to internet citizens:…

I think I’m contributing at Washblog by not doing any out of the box thinking. Two more posts from today and yesterday, one digesting the posts on why Darcy lost, the other on Mike! What I’m trying to do is replicate, to the best of my ability, what Carl was doing at Washington State Political…

If you want a good rundown on what Blue Tigers all are about and why Michigan becoming the first state to partner with them, watch this… uh… radio conversation. I’m writing Dwight this morning to ask him what he thinks.