The thousands of tons of mud aren’t dry, the recovery isn’t complete. But, people are alrady scratching their heads why more wasn’t done to warn or prevent people from living beneath “slide hill.” When I look at the hear of the area covered by the slide, a neighborhood along Steelhead Road in an oxbow of…
Month: March 2014
I’m not sure if it is true, if it matters. But, in any case, people of Chinese descent have had a long history on one particular block of downtown
This letter to the editor (actually just one passage of it) in Olympia Power and Light bothers me more than it should: Columbia Heights Partners LLC, a Chinese backed company… Backed by the Chinese? Why does that matter? Is it the implied xenophobia that matters to me? Probably. Yes, the major investors behind the project…
Everyone hates the Olympian, everyone hates Nazis. These two things are very much not the same, obviously (Olyblogosphere for March 24, 2014)
1. On one hand the pro-People’s House people hated the Olympian’s editorial. 2. On the other hand, the anti-People’s House people hated the Olympian’s editorial. At least we all can agree on something. 3. Here’s Rick taking us on a ride around South Puget Sound CC. 4.The person who runs the Nuit House (who knew…
Empty downtown Olympia
No one lives there: Seriously, downtown Olympia is in the same category as my neighborhood, and I live in an unbuilt wasteland where people wish there were taller buildings. WastBut, of course, when someone talks about building a seven story building in our empty-of-people downtown, people speak up, because this is some sort of horrible…
Happy Irish Day, Seattle Celtic were local champs 99 years ago
Back in the dark forgotten history of Cascadia, soccer used to be a pretty big thing around here. In the first decades of the 20th century, there was a thriving local soccer culture. There were several clubs in Seattle and the surrounding towns, especially logging or coal towns dotted around the cities. Seattle Celtic lifted…
Why one issue elections are the dark side of local politics
Karen Veldheer signed to put R-71 on the ballot, to overturn same sex domestic partnerships in Washington State. But, when talking about equal rights during her city council campaign, she failed to mention this. I was thinking about five years ago in Olympia recently. At the time I was posting a lot about Karen Veldheer’s…
Spring is rebirth and passing (Olyblogosphere for March 10, 2014)
1. Everyday Olympia is back! And, pointing to a really nice Sunday morning conversation about Olympia. 2. Berd’s ears were hurt by the fairly common sign of spring, the Pacific tree frog. 3. The late Joe Dear honored in a Youtube upload at Evergreen. Apparently Dear didn’t like being called “John Dear.” I once heard…
The biggest issue with the bioregional map of Cascadia
Is that it isn’t a bioregional map of Cascadia. Fellow Olympian Matthew Green commented awhile ago: The upper Columbia watershed has more ecological similarity to the upper Colorado watershed than to the lower Columbia. Consider that a relatively modest (geologically speaking) change in topology could join them into a single watershed, thus radically altering the…