Olympia

My interview on the Adam Dealan-de podcast

It was a fun conversation meandering the complexities of woke politics in Olympia, imperialism, Ukraine, Black Lives Matter, philosophy, trans activism and beyond. The video and audio quality could be better, that was my bad.

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The debate: Developers vs Homeowners

I’m trying to make sense of the property situation in my town. And it gets confusing. I’m interested in where there is common interests, shared alliances and deals with problems. In the dealing with problems […]

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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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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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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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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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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 […]