The soccer field next to the big big hill (Field 1) at the Regional Athletic Center in Lacey is about as close as we get to a soccer specific stadium in Thurston County. It has lights and seating for a large crowd (on a grassy hill). But, it lacks a locker room and any area…
Month: February 2015
SPSCC all over the place and other port related links (Olyblogosphere for February 23, 2014)
1. Seems a bit early, you know? But, Washington Our Home declares snake season has begun. 2. Rebels by Bus has a nice class (and video) over at South Puget. 3. Speaking of South Puget, here’s Janine (from Little Hollywood) talking to SPSCC’s president. 4. Longshoremen load up a ship. 5. Ken has a pretty…
If you want to win an election in Olympia, get either a Lacey city-councilmember or an out of towner to contribute to your campaign
So, if you took a list of contributors of the last two rounds of successful city council elections, what kind of list would you come up with? Well, something like this. These are the 15 people (or unions) that contributed to more than half the successful council campaigns in the last two cycles: Contributor Cynthia…
Happy Presidents Day. By the way, Jospeph Lane did not go quietly into that good night
Joseph Lane is one of the most regrettable characters of Cascadian history. During the debates on how slavery should be treated in Oregon during that state’s founding days, Lane was on the hard pro-slavery side. There were a few hard anti-slavery sorts to balance him out. But, most of the state had a pox on…
The other side of the Sound Transit to Olympia coin: Olympia is an Island, leave us alone
The brainstorming about getting passenger rail into Olympia is alive! Olympia’s best blog took their crack earlier and the Seattle Transit blog did their’s yesterday. All smart people all say, sure it could happen. But, there are obstacles. Sure, that makes sense. It hasn’t happened, so obviously there are reasons why it hasn’t. I was…
One epic post on rail that beats me to the ground and four other random posts (Olyblogosphere for February 9, 2015)
1. Wow. The best blog in Olympia delivers again. This makes my post about Olympia and Sound Transit look like historic revisionism crap. Read this post (Link Fixed! Thanks TVDinner!) that dives really deep in to the policy of local rail. 2. Ecotone is an Olympia blog. Maybe not about Olympia, but blogged from Olympia. So,…
This post is a day late, maybe pretty irrelevant right now: My love letter to sudden Seahawks fans
I’m typing this post out Saturday night before the Seahawks second Superbowl in two year. The third their entire history. I meant to write this for last Thursday, but I got sidetracked by my sudden fascination with Olympia history. So, on the Monday after the Superbowl, this may seem like the most irrelevant post ever….