I want to use this very special session of the legislature to get something off my chest. This one goes out to all your out of towners. We still love you, though, in the 20th LD. Some of you crazy cats even say you’re from Olympia. Why is it that folks from the center, down…
Month: November 2007
From Arcadia to Seattle (well, Tukwila and some walking involved)
Of course, since the inspirational post for this series was written by Archie Binns more than seventy years ago in The Roaring Land, I should document the same journey from just around Shelton, nearest to Archadia, to Seattle. It was a big shopping trip for the Binns’, but for us, it’s just a lets-look-and-see. First,…
Chang Mook Sohn is so running for state treasurer
No PDC report this time, but Sohn did show up up to the Thurston County Democrats meeting last night. After introducing himself as a Democrat for 35 years, he sat through most of the meeting where we discussed caucuses, which I have to tell you, if you were a new Democrat, that discussion would bore…
Note to Gregoire, don’t put yourself between Cougs, Huskies
Gov. Christine Gregoire was booed by the fans of the so-called West side school as she presented the Apple Cup trophy to the Cougars on Saturday night. Mostly the booing had to do with the Cougars, but Gregoire became a convenient target for the Husky fans trying to exit around me: “Thief.” “Just trying to…
Last minute thoughts about Hornets game (its a rivalry now)
1. Happy Hornets Day: 2. This woman, come on: Shante Hastings, president of the University of Delaware Alumni Association, asked The News Journal for a written list of questions before commenting. In an e-mailed reply, Hastings, a 2000 graduate who lives in Millsboro, said she is “really not sure” why it has taken so long…
What about the local option? (re: special session, I-747)
Originally Initiative 747 had a local option for raising property taxes beyond the 1 percent limit. If a local government wanted to give it a try, they could put it on the ballot and see what their constituents thought. What makes me wonder about the local option from the original 747 is that from the…
A little Del State brain dump (go Hornets, beat the Hens)
Just more than ten years ago, I was wrapping up my sophomore year at Delaware State University. I had spent two years in their print journalism department and had worked my way from a regular reporter to sports editor and then finally news editor at the school paper, The Hornet. That last semester I spent…