A week or so ago I took a look at the geography of the failed income tax in Olympia. And a while back I looked at the geography of voter drop-off in citywide elections. Now this week, I put them together! The exercise I did on drop off was to figure out if there were…
Month: November 2016
Drive-throughs are worth it if it means doing something in Briggs Village
Something is better than nothing at all and we’ve been waiting a really long time. Update (11/22/16 (9:22 a.m.): the planning commission voted in favor of the amendment to allow drive-throughs last night. Last night the Olympia planning commission held a public hearing on allowing drive throughs inside the commercial portion of the Briggs Urban…
Four things to think about the 2016 Thurston County commission races (2014 all over again, sort of)
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been rolling over how an independent candidate with conservative values was elected in a usually safe Democratic county. Bud Blake’s win in 2014 over Karen Valenzuela took a lot of folks by surprise, so a double repeat of that victory for the other two commission seats by Gary…
The Geography of the Opportunity for Olympia loss
From what I heard, there were several reasons for Opportunity for Olympia coming to Olympia. The income tax to pay for the first year of college for Olympia high school graduates was run here because Olympia was particularly fertile ground. We had supported the last statewide attempt at an income-like tax and we have a…