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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Thoughts on protests in Oly…

(From a facebook post a year ago on June 15th, 2020) I had some thoughts on protests in Oly. Haters get ready to start typing furiously. I think we need to learn from our past. […]