Because McClatchy will never be as stupid as the owners of the King County Journal/Eastside Journal/Bellevue Journal-American/South County Journal/Valley Daily News. A little background. Ken puts it out there that the end is nigh for the Olympian. The new Olympian publisher responds a little too directly. Ok, so this is why: For over ten years…
Month: March 2009
The team killed by one game (Belfast Celtic and Happy Saint Patrick’s day)
On this St. Patrick’s Day, I remember Belfast Celtic, a team disbanded after a horrific game and its aftermath in the late 1940s. Despite their success, they were never admitted to the league system in Northern Ireland and were forced to hang it up due to fan on player violence. From Wild Geese (which refers…
Local green party seen better days
Patrick Mendendez would like to think the local Green Party is an alternative worth supporting, but they probably need something to bring them off of life support. They failed to even get a quorum to their recent organizational meeting: NOTE — a follow-up meeting was planned in two weeks time; however, we did not achieve…
There are two types of political jokes in the United States
From the Dixon Cornbelt League (by the late WP Kinsella… sigh): According to what I read in USA Today, there are two political factions in Courteguay — the government and the insurgents — depending on who is currently in power. There are two types of political jokes, from what the chair the Thurston County Republicans…
Port of Shelton, Paul Harvey and Genocide
Beyond the entire interesting part of governing from a three person commission (one commissioner cannot make a decision alone) was the part about the port commissioner wanting to lower the flag to honor the death of Paul Harvey. A lot of people seemed to like Harvey, but I’m wondering about the wisdom of honoring somone…
This week in metonymizing Olympia
1. The Other Side withOlympia is not closing Universities (so far) just shredding the social safety net…. Sorry about your social safety net, not sure how we got the authority to do that. But, to be honest, we’d never close a University, we’d actually like one of our own. Our four year school is just…
The imaginary battle for Washington’s state capitol
Jerry Reilly deploys hypothetical politics to defend the state legislature stepping into a local planning process (or Olympia telling Olympia what to do): Opponents of this legislation should consider two questions: If the state were just now deciding where to locate our capital city, would it be reasonable to ask the City Council of Olympia…