Rhenda Strub, a new city councilmember here in Olympia, writes a pretty good piece on the ithmus issue here in town. Not on what she believes we should do, but on how we all need to take a deep breath: The hyperbole is objectionable enough, but the anger coming from the people who want to…
Month: July 2008
Walmart effect in Yelm, Saars Marketplace
Walmart effect in Yelm? Maybe not so much: Months after QFC shut its doors, area residents will soon have a grocery store besides Safeway or Wal-Mart to choose from. Saar’s Market Place is set to open in Yelm sometime in July, and its operating manager may be a familiar face for longtime residents. Saar’s will…
How a Ron Paul acolyte can win in Oly?
Hmm: As a candidate from the Campaign for Liberty movement you have the potential for strong support in Olympia, by appealing to what I call Olympia’s anarchist tendencies. The campaign may also need to morph its stance on illegal immigration to something that does not focus on a group of people. I might expound on…
R. Scott trying to change the past (it seems) to cover-up blog/LTE plagarism thing
Things have been moving, people have been doing things since I noticed a letter to the editor which looked exactly like a blog post I had just read. First looks like blog author, our own R. Scott, has been changing things to make everything look ok. The post in question now carries a notice “Source:…
Hire a good campaign tracker, and some references
With both Gregoire and Dino employing campaign trackers (staffers with video cameras who attend opponents events looking for a macaca) here are some important links. A Seattleite in Idaho will be back in Seattle in a couple of weeks and is apparently the Ty Cobb of campaign trackers: I tracked for an organization that provided…
Anti-Romero letter copied from a blog
Letter to the editor in the Olympian this morning: Romero has cost taxpayers dearly Sandra Romero is a board member of a powerful special-interest group called Futurewise. Her group filed a growth management appeal in 2005 challenging Thurston County’s comprehensive plan and cost the county an estimated $1.5 million defending against this frivolous claim. The…
The next big Olympia blog
Will be Everyday Olympia: It looks like OlyForums is going to become part of Mathias’ Everyday Olympia. That is to say the forum will be hosted there. The OlyForums.net URL will direct users to the forums themselves. Mathias’ EDO probably would have continued to expand had he added forums there anyway, but Olyforums.net already has…
Campaign watchers and the Rossi and Gregoire campaigns
Rossi and the Republicans send a campaign watcher to Gregoire’s events. That by itself isn’t all that interesting. Thought it is when you realize that Rossi and the Republicans prevent a Democratic campaign watcher from getting into Rossi event. From the comments of the original video, which for some reason doesn’t have any sound: I…