1. Dig through the muck, find the history (from ArchaeOlygy): Rip into it with heavy machinery, as happened when Mission Creek was restored this Fall, and the stratigraphy makes the depositional history that much clearer. The modern beach has been accumulating atop the slumping clay fill of the road that dammed the creek a couple…
Month: December 2013
Cascadian politics and how we vote in a primary around here
What I can point to is a point when political parties in Washington tried to force greater political allegiance and were bucked by the voters. About 15 years ago the Republican and Democratic parties sued and were able to get Washington’s old open primary law tossed by the courts. In the old version, Washington voters…
Political party affiliation in Cascadia
I’m not sure what I expected to find when I was looking for some data on party affiliation broken down by state. I thought it would mirror religious affiliation. Strong groups of affiliated folks along the edges, but also a broad center of non-affiliated folks who didn’t feel like they belonged to any particular party….
Duane Moore and the Black Houses
Black houses of Olympia by Jeremy Quist (via flickr) People are trying to create a mythology around the Olympia Black Houses that simply doesn’t exist. There’s no evidence that Duane Stephen Moore is anything but a typical small business owner (in this case a dentist and a rental owner) who has unique atheistic tastes. So,…
Cold logs clattering (Olyblogoshere for December 16, 2012)
1. Icy, icy, coldcoldcold at the Deschutes falls and dams. 2. Log Lugger Loses Load! 3. Now this is a fascinating post. I suggest you read about Allison Dickson’s conversation with an unnamed Olympia bookstore. But, it boils down to “we don’t want your reading because people can buy the ebook.” 4. Camille is trying…
Olympia’s first collegiate soccer team and why I don’t like PLU
This is some sort of sports team, from the Washington State Historical Society: But, I really doubt it is a basketball team, as labelled by the WSHS. Mostly because it labelled as being taken in 1885 and James Naismith didn’t create the game until six years later. I think its much more likely that what…
Why does Olympia have a low immunization rate?
A couple of years back I was shocked (shocked!) at the high rate of immunization exemptions in Thurston County and especially the Olympia School District. Back then the state had just passed a law where parent’s have to more expressly say why they’re exempting from immunization. Apparently that extra social hurdle has worked in Thurston…
A quick look into the long history of corporate distrust in Cascadia
From Cascadia PDX: “The corporate state is not science fiction. Corporate agribusiness is taking over what, how, and who grows food in my community. It has become obvious that the government isn’t going to lift a finger to stop them. It’s clear that the people, in the places where we live, must break the chokehold…