Supporting the 50-State Canvass. Brilliant idea.
Month: March 2006
Stores and city hall
This is pretty scary: (Port Commissioners) said the (city hall) project won’t generate the foot traffic and economic activity they want at night and on weekends. A City Hall would have to have shops on the ground floor or some other venue to draw people to the area after the offices have closed, the port…
Sunshine week question
Earlier this “Sunshine” week, State Auditor Brian Sonntag, AG Rob McKenna, the Olympian’s publisher and the Timberland Regional Library Community Service Manager Michael Wessells got together to talk about open public access to government. Go here for a listen. Overall, not a bad hour to listen to, if not groundbreaking. Most of us have heard…
We should shrink the allowed size of initiative petitions
Almost a year ago I came around to an idea that shrinking the size of initiative petitions to a size that people can print out on their home printers. Recently, inspired by intitiative reform talk at horsesass and Evergreen Politics, I started taking the idea more seriously. Now, I’m going to see how far I…
I’ve started a campaign to shrink the allowed size of initiative petitions
Spured by the discussion a little while back on reforming the initiative process (at horsesass, Evergreen Politics and here) I’ve decided to start a low frequency campaign to shrink the allowed size of intiative petitions from 11″x17″ to 8.5″x11″, making it possible for anyone to print out a petition from their home printer and collect…