Because you can’t tell the difference between a town and the state legislature: Hey Olympia, hands off the $ Dear Rhenda, President Obama signed the federal stimulus plan to help states and their residents rebound from the current recession. Funding for health care is a significant part of the package. Washington State’s share is expected…
Month: March 2009
Ken Camp’s Tumwater coverage
Wondering about the continuing musical chairs that is still occurring since Bob Macleod resigned from the county commission in December? Ken has the scoop on all the folks who want to fill Karen Valenzuela’s seat on the Tumwater City Council. Karen filled Bob’s seat on the commission (Ken did a pretty good job covering that…
Metonymy angle of the transportation stimulus battle between Seattle and the Leg
Metonmy: Olympia to Seattle: Drop Dead More metonmy: This week’s dustup between Seattle and Olympia over how to spend $341 million in federal stimulus money… The problem with this specific metonymic device is that is blurs out the reality of the situation. It makes the state legislature, an organization of locally elected (and proportionate to…
Is the Williams Group relaunching The Sitting Duck?
This got me thinking. If you go to where the old Sitting Duck website used to be (thesittingduck.net), it takes you to the Williams Group’s (a local full service PR/publishing/Marketing firm) website. This implies that while Sitting Duck in charge Terry Knight said he was looking for a buyer late last year, he actually did…