QFC closes in Yelm: Is this the first of other Yelm stalwart businesses that will close because the Wal-Mart Effect did them in? Can Wal-Mart’s employee wage scale and large use of part-timers replace these full time Yelm jobs at Kroger? Here’s an interesting related observation from a Lacey planning review board meeting when Wal-mart…
Month: September 2007
Walter Neary, good blog, should allow comments
Walter Neary, a former Olympian reporter and now Lakewood City Councilmember, writes what he calls a blog. I was going to write a post reflecting on how much I liked Walter when he was down here (I remember him writing some funny stuff about Capital Lake that I couldn’t track down), but man… his blog…
Re: Private libraries: a novel idea (“Let’s fix our own problems”)
John over at the Washington Policy Center posts up about the Jackson (OR) county library system joining forces with a for-profit firm to get the libraries back open. Good for Jackson to get their libraries going again, but I’m afraid I can’t swallow what John is pushing (an embrace private libraries). It seems that there…
Ball hitters get revenge on our man Jorge
SI: Mariners right-hander Jorge Campillo left the first game of Wednesday’s doubleheader with the Cleveland Indians in the sixth inning after getting hit in the right arm by a line drive from Casey Blake. With the bases loaded and no outs, Blake lined Campillo’s pitch back to the mound. The ball ricocheted off Campillo’s lower…
Paul Allen does not own Qwest Field
More chatter on MLS in Seattle leads to speculation that Paul Allen is part of the new ownership group. That’s great, but then this: In grabbing the franchise, Roth and partners outmaneuvered a group called Atletico Seattle Management, who’d proposed building a new $135 million soccer stadium. For now, the team will continue at the…
Internet based fan owned teams spread
In addition to myfootballclub and Save the Victory, there are a couple of other options out there if you want to get a piece of a soccer club.Fan Power points to myBUFC and BuyaClub.co.uk. MyBUFC is trying to buy a low level club in England. The advantage is they only need 5,000 investors (instead of…