Commentary
Time for the city to BUY!
UPDATE: So the city didn’t buy either of the two building I recommended as examples. The two buildings I suggested came to about $2.1 billion. In stead they bought the burnt down Days Inn for […]
Year: 2021
Commentary
25 lawnmowers per block
(This was a post I made on Facebook in April of 2020. I’m reposting it so that voters can get a real sense of me.) I was sitting in my yard at my house and […]
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OPARD shouldn’t manage homeless
Olympia, here is an overlooked but important low hanging fruit to help Olympia’s homeless. Before 2017 the city had no full time park rangers, now they have 3. The combined pay plus benefits of the […]
Fun Ideas
Arts Pedestrian Boulevard
When I first came to Olympia, many people had dreams of a pedestrian boulevard. Closing down a street to traffic and having it be a place for people to sip coffee and play chess. For […]
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Campaign Statement
From Occupy Wall Street to the movements of today, I’ve had the pleasure to be an organizer within the grassroots. Recently I served as Campaign Manager for Power to the Public, a fight against the […]
Commentary
A little background…
How did I come to this moment choosing to run for Olympia city council? I was born in Kentucky, I came to Washington in 2003 to serve in the Americorps and, like most people, I […]
Olympia
City Council Campaign Issues
I’d prefer to frame it in the Rose, Thorn, Bud design thinking. The rose is: what’s good? The thorn is: what needs improvement? And the bud is: what are future opportunities? Rose The city of […]
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I’m running for City Council!
Well that’s a surprise! But when you think about it… if not now when? If not you who?