Just about a year before the Seahawks finally took the field, they were in a somewhat similar position as the Washington NFL franchise is now. The logo the Seahawks had been handed by NFL designers didn’t directly borrow from local tribal design standards. The King County Arts Commission complained that it “fails to accurately depict…
Month: November 2013
Driving Alone vs. Taking the Bus in Thurston County 2012
I love the data from the American Community Surveys, so much so I wish the Census started doing them in earnest earlier than 2005. So much interesting data, but only back less than a decade. I started poking around the commuter data this week for Thurston County, and found some interesting comparisons between people who…
The Olympia Yacht Club is getting their Capitol Lake History wrong
Big surprise, right? Because remember these signs that tried to connect a brackish estuary with bugs that are prevalent in stagnant freshwater? Anyway, if you head to the section of Percival Landing that crosses the access to the yacht club, you find this sign. The middle panel confusingly refers to the period of time in…
Regional subtext to the Boeing special session: Left Coast (Cascadia) vs. Deep South
It seems like we might be in the habit of doing this every decade or so in Washington State, bringing back the legislature to make sure Boeing doesn’t leave Puget Sound high and dry. The risk of losing Boeing to some other state is an interesting case of regional tension, especially in how Colin Woodard…
Darren Mills’ and Mike Volz’s Olympia
At first blush, I was confused by the election results for the Olympia city council. Across the two contest races, I assumed there would be some difference between the four candidates that ranged across the city’s political spectrum. In one race, we had a fairly right candidate (Mike Volz) against a neighborhood based centrist (Julie…
Sue Gunn reconnected the ends of the Cascadian political spectrum
I’ve been toying with this idea of there being a special sort of political spectrum in Cascadia. It would be along the lines the circle political spectrums you see from time to time, where the conservative and liberal wings join at the top and bottom, implying there are two political centers. Flat spectrum: Circle spectrum:…