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220 City employees make over $100k?
Someone needs to say it, that’s a lot of money compared to many hard working folks! The top three earners made $188-195k and all of them were police. I took the time to look through […]
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Practical ways to keep housing prices and rents reasonable
(EDIT: A local writer crunched some numbers in response to this post, they called it “The scale of out of town real estate investment in Thurston County is small,” and so I responded with a […]
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On Racial Justice
People have a lot of legitimate questions for me on racial justice and I’m here to answer them. I’m against systemic racism and actively work against it. People can see clearly that it’s true because […]
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Glass recycling, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
The City of Olympia stopped recycling glass and that’s ridiculous. No, “Hey we’re working on it!” Just a, “Put it in the trash or drive it to a spot downtown.” Putting it in the trash […]
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Yes, I’m progressive…
Recently I was endorsed by the Thurston County Progressives. Some people think that can’t be. Of all three candidates the white straight male is the most progressive? It caused a lot of strife and for […]
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The rent is too damn high!
This is now a classic meme at this point, but that’s because the sentiment was right on! In Olympia we’ve seen skyrocketing rent and housing prices especially in the last 5 years. The average home […]
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Landlords, I’ll accept your humanity…
…but that’s it! I’m a renter. I have always been a renter. Even when I was a kid my parents never owned the home we lived in. While I accept the humanity of landlords, as […]
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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 […]
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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 […]