Bruce Campaign

Lying attacks and calls for my death.

I didn’t want to write about this but I feel I have to. Something has been sitting uneasily with me this past week. Last Thursday the 15th, I had two hit pieces against me the […]

Where did the benches go?

Benches! We had some benches downtown once upon a time. It meant that when you were shopping downtown you could sit outside and wait for your partner to finish buying a new outfit. Or sit […]

That’s not a small increase… it’s the steepest jump!

(EDIT: A local writer crunched some numbers in response to my first post, “Practical ways to keep housing prices and rents reasonable.” If you haven’t read that then please do! They called their article “The […]

Money out of local politics!

Let’s face it, our democracy is broken! It’s been broken for a long time. The first Presidential election I could vote in was Gore vs. Bush, Gore won the popular vote and Bush stole the […]

Did I win the debate?

I appreciate the League of Women Voters for setting this up. About 10 minutes speaking in total. I think I did alright, so did my opponents. This was my first time really meeting them, tried […]

Olympia takes over electric utility

Public power is probably the single largest struggle I fight for my community. Why is this? There are many arguments, but the most important for me is local ownership. Puget Sound Energy was bought by […]

Climate chaos, it’s an emergency right?

The record breaking 100+ degree days in Olympia (in June no less) was an emergency where some people died from the heat. The ecological repercussions of just those two days are likely massive tree death, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]