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On history, HB 1576 and love of our communities", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2025/03/22/no-narcissus-in-our-time-on-history-hb-1576-and-love-of-our-communities/", "published_at": "2025-03-22T17:51:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-90d3-72f5-9659-84d1bd461dab", "title": "What I’m doing here and how you can help", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2025/03/16/what-im-doing-here-and-how-you-can-help/", "published_at": "2025-03-16T17:07:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-90d3-72f5-9659-84d1bdf832d8", "title": "The Ku Klux Klan in Olympia and what we should remember", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2025/03/09/the-klu-klux-klan-in-olympia-and-what-we-should-remember/", "published_at": "2025-03-09T16:04:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-90d3-72f5-9659-84d1be81c3c3", "title": "Lessons Learned About Changing the State Flag from the Short-Lived HB 1938", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2025/03/01/lessons-learned-about-changing-the-state-flag-from-the-short-lived-hb-1938/", "published_at": "2025-03-01T20:28:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-90d3-72f5-9659-84d1bf21cfa7", "title": "Dick Abram and the circle of history", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2025/02/22/dick-abrams-and-the-circle-of-history/", "published_at": "2025-02-22T17:09:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-90d3-72f5-9659-84d1bfc0b09c", "title": "The Washington State flag is deeply and historically bad and we should change it", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2025/02/15/the-washington-state-flag-is-deeply-and-historically-bad-and-we-should-change-it/", "published_at": "2025-02-15T19:27:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-90d3-72f5-9659-84d1c02aed41", "title": "The Pacific Northwest’s particular racist past exists", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2025/02/10/the-pacific-northwests-particular-racist-past-exists-and-no-one-should/", "published_at": "2025-02-10T00:33:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-90d3-72f5-9659-84d1c07bcf6e", "title": "SB 5400 and the future of publicly funded local journalism", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2025/02/03/sb-5400-and-the-future-of-publicly-funded-local-journalism/", "published_at": "2025-02-03T00:10:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-90d3-72f5-9659-84d1c0ee417a", "title": "We should be able to dispose of any statue we want. We missed on Rogers so far, let’s not miss on Whitman", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2024/12/28/we-should-be-able-to-dispose-of-any-statue-we-want-we-missed-on-rogers-so-far-lets-not-miss-on-whitman/", "published_at": "2024-12-28T21:57:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde1-90d3-72f5-9659-84d1c1bb2ea9", "title": "Why does Jim Walsh need to remind everyone Eric Crowl was elected?", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2024/12/02/why-does-jim-walsh-need-to-remind-everyone-eric-crowl-was-elected/", "published_at": "2024-12-02T01:57:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-f518-7188-a34a-42de1fb5d46e", "title": "We all know the Washington State flag is pretty bad. Here’s how we change it", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2024/09/07/designing-a-new-state-flag-before-we-know-how-to-replace-the-state-flag-is-putting-the-cart-before-the-horse/", "published_at": "2024-09-07T17:13:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-f518-7188-a34a-42de203ea009", "title": "Exile Ourselves", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2024/09/03/exile-ourselves/", "published_at": "2024-09-03T00:34:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-f518-7188-a34a-42de204d204e", "title": "Let the decimation of the Everett Herald be when we decided to save journalism in Washington", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2024/07/20/let-the-decimation-of-the-everett-herald-be-when-we-decided-to-save-journalism-in-washington/", "published_at": "2024-07-20T22:24:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-f518-7188-a34a-42de205408b3", "title": "Will Thurston County deaths outstrip births again?", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2024/06/15/will-thurston-county-deaths-outstrip-births-again/", "published_at": "2024-06-15T16:43:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-f518-7188-a34a-42de20fffcde", "title": "Bill and Tony Norton and the criminalizing of candidate names in Washington State", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2024/05/14/bill-and-tony-norton-and-the-criminalizing-of-candidate-names-in-washington-state/", "published_at": "2024-05-14T14:07:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-f518-7188-a34a-42de2132c6f5", "title": "Re-examining the out-of-town (or just corporate) real estate investment in Thurston County", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2024/05/10/re-examining-the-out-of-town-or-just-corporate-real-estate-investment-in-thurston-county/", "published_at": "2024-05-10T03:13:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-f518-7188-a34a-42de216b5b33", "title": "Why Do Young People Vote Less? Reframing the Narrative Through Brain Development", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/12/31/what-if-brain-development-holds-a-key-to-understanding-the-youth-voting-conundrum/", "published_at": "2023-12-31T17:16:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-f518-7188-a34a-42de21b45f8c", "title": "What statewide partisan identification could mean for 2024 elections and beyond", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/12/28/what-statewide-partisan-identification-could-mean-for-2024-elections-and-beyond/", "published_at": "2023-12-28T19:04:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-f518-7188-a34a-42de21f529ba", "title": "After “turn in your ballot on the last day” rhetoric, late ballots more than tripled and trended Republican", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/12/16/after-turn-in-your-ballot-on-the-last-day-rhetoric-late-ballots-more-than-tripled-and-trended-republican/", "published_at": "2023-12-16T22:06:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde3-f518-7188-a34a-42de21fc8ca9", "title": "How to grow our local civic cultures and increase voter turnout: pay for it", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/12/09/how-to-grow-our-local-civic-cultures-and-increase-voter-turnout-pay-for-it/", "published_at": "2023-12-09T23:19:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde6-7812-710d-a0c0-8bddc8ed7a2b", "title": "School board races were much more interesting, and more confusing, this year (Thurston County election maps 2023)", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/11/24/school-board-races-were-much-more-interesting-and-more-confusing-this-year-thurston-county-election-maps-2023/", "published_at": "2023-11-24T23:26:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde6-7812-710d-a0c0-8bddc91d8546", "title": "From an interesting kind of map to more typical maps in Thurston County’s general election (Prop 1 and County Commission races)", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/11/19/from-an-interesting-kind-of-map-to-more-typical-maps-in-thurston-countys-general-election-prop-1-and-county-commission-races/", "published_at": "2023-11-19T03:20:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde6-7812-710d-a0c0-8bddc9576ea7", "title": "The (mostly) lack of evidence of the impact of race in Badillo-Diiorio/Scott race in for North Thurston Schools", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/11/11/the-mostly-lack-of-evidence-of-the-impact-of-race-in-badillo-diiorio-scott-race-in-for-north-thurston-schools/", "published_at": "2023-11-11T22:49:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde6-7812-710d-a0c0-8bddc9692d0e", "title": "Why Sixty-Five Road?", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/11/04/why-sixty-five-road/", "published_at": "2023-11-04T23:36:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde6-7812-710d-a0c0-8bddca39c951", "title": "Why did denser neighborhoods vote for the Regional Fire Authority?", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/05/06/why-did-denser-neighborhoods-vote-for-the-regional-fire-authority/", "published_at": "2023-05-06T18:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde6-7812-710d-a0c0-8bddca5fbf2f", "title": "How our history of downzoning is an argument against “local control” in the legislature and has huge impacts on racial discrimination in housing", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/02/23/how-our-history-of-downzoning-is-an-argument-against-local-control-in-the-legislature-and-has-huge-impacts-on-racial-discrimination-in-housing/", "published_at": "2023-02-23T04:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde6-7812-710d-a0c0-8bddca6839e5", "title": "Why we don’t see the news", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/01/09/why-we-dont-see-the-news/", "published_at": "2023-01-09T00:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde6-7812-710d-a0c0-8bddcaf0aaab", "title": "Three ways to think about pedestrian deaths in Thurston County between 2006 and 2020", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2023/01/02/three-ways-to-think-about-pedestrian-deaths-in-thurston-county-between-2006-and-2020/", "published_at": "2023-01-02T02:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde6-7812-710d-a0c0-8bddcb4de4e8", "title": "Why I wasn’t born in the City of Lacey", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2022/12/23/why-i-wasnt-born-in-the-city-of-lacey/", "published_at": "2022-12-23T20:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde6-7812-710d-a0c0-8bddcbbf9cbf", "title": "How an incumbent sheriff loses", "url": "https://olympiatime.com/2022/12/18/how-an-incumbent-sheriff-loses/", "published_at": "2022-12-18T23:49:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Empty Quarteroriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
After Labor Dayoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
We know it’s history because the bill comes dueoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
Restore Olympia’s East Capitol Campus Neighborhoodoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2026
From a Grand Central Public to a Parking Lotoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2026
Captured Currentoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2026
Rhyming History and the Center Not Holdingoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2026
Maytown and the Long Tideoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2026
It could have been much, much worseoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2026
Annexing the Futureoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2026
Freedom, Washingtonoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2026
Le Morte d’Laceyoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2026
Bob Blume, Olympia and the New Stateoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2026
Dead Space Problem (a poem)original ↗
13 Jun 2026
If Olympia Had Railsoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
Democratic Party Dominance in Washington State, Ireland 100 Years Ago and Mark Reedoriginal ↗
30 May 2026
The Knox Hotel and the Fading of Distanceoriginal ↗
23 May 2026
Howard Schultz and the Demons of Ambitionoriginal ↗
16 May 2026
The Power and the Truth: Our Long History of Owning Electricityoriginal ↗
9 May 2026
The Deep History and Structural Mismatch of Timberland Regional Libraryoriginal ↗
2 May 2026
Gerry Lemon and what history gifts to the futureoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2026
Going Closer to Homeoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2026
Turning the corner at Block 46original ↗
11 Apr 2026
The Timberland Regional Library doesn’t face a stand-off, it faces some sort of evolutionoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2026
We Fought Iron Giants. And Won. We Fought Hardwood Oligarchs.original ↗
28 Mar 2026
The Carlton and the Choices We Made to Get Hereoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2026
Mist and Filter: Reclaim Your Discernmentoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2026
HB 2554 and the Long Shadow of Initiative 456original ↗
7 Mar 2026
Bush, Billings and the Peace that Forces Outoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2026
Racism in Housing and the Importance of the Local Grindoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2026
Move fast, break things: The life and times of Washington’s first black, female prosecutororiginal ↗
14 Feb 2026
The Small Power of Photos, the Large Power of Enforcementoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2026
The Power of Nightmares but Dreaming of Something Betteroriginal ↗
31 Jan 2026
1949 and the accidental, mistaken transformation of Olympiaoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2026
The Whitman Statue Is Our Confederate General Statue. It is Time to Gooriginal ↗
17 Jan 2026
The South’s Mythology, the Northwest’s Bureaucracy: How a Single Football Game Defined Two Eras of Exclusionoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2026
Brier Dudley is wrong about the newsoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2026

2025

Seattle Doesn’t Play Itselforiginal ↗
27 Dec 2025
Unpacking the Cascadian Calmoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2025
Olympia as Ghost Townoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2025
Tono, actuallyoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2025
From Wheelmen to Highways to Bike Lanes: Olympia’s 130-Year Looporiginal ↗
29 Nov 2025
Confusion winsoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2025
It matters how we talk to each other, but it matter more where we talk to each otheroriginal ↗
15 Nov 2025
All Politics Is Local, All Politics Is Complicatedoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2025
Why Is Eastside Street Like This? A Small History of Olympia’s Streetsoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2025
Civic apologies and understanding you have a problemoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2025
Smith Troy, Trump and Telling the Truthoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2025
Hush Season 1 Review: the story-telling of our particular racist past and presentoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2025
Why the Myth of Tumwater and Interstate 5 Mattersoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2025
What happened to school vaccination rates in Olympia since COVID?original ↗
13 Sept 2025
Centralias Cannot Holdoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2025
The City of Puget and how we build citiesoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2025
Digging Deeper Into the August Primary Resultsoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2025
We lost our neighborhoods, we lost our unionsoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2025
Five initial lessons from the August 2025 Primaryoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2025
They Used the Profits to Replace Usoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
Revisiting Magnet Theory, Migration, and the Myths We Tell Ourselvesoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2025
How we get to better understanding local misinformationoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2025
2025 Population Trends: Coastal Decline, Rural Migration, and Growing Thurston Densityoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2025
Book Review: Excluded (In Cascadia)original ↗
28 Jun 2025
The ghost in the machine of analyzing out-of-town corporate home-ownershiporiginal ↗
19 Jun 2025
Ending the Oregon Trailoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2025
The Unsoeld of MGP’s Wendell Berryoriginal ↗
31 May 2025
When enshittification comes for your townoriginal ↗
24 May 2025
Olympia ’57 and the Arts Walk we always neededoriginal ↗
17 May 2025
Facing the soft xenophobia of Emmett Watsonoriginal ↗
10 May 2025
After SB 5400’s first run and the future of the debate over public media in Washington Stateoriginal ↗
3 May 2025
Who could own what and who owned whatoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2025
Don’t think of an Olympiaoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2025
No Narcissus in our time. On history, HB 1576 and love of our communitiesoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2025
What I’m doing here and how you can helporiginal ↗
16 Mar 2025
The Ku Klux Klan in Olympia and what we should rememberoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2025
Lessons Learned About Changing the State Flag from the Short-Lived HB 1938original ↗
1 Mar 2025
Dick Abram and the circle of historyoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2025
The Washington State flag is deeply and historically bad and we should change itoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2025
The Pacific Northwest’s particular racist past existsoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2025
SB 5400 and the future of publicly funded local journalismoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2025

2024

We should be able to dispose of any statue we want. We missed on Rogers so far, let’s not miss on Whitmanoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2024
Why does Jim Walsh need to remind everyone Eric Crowl was elected?original ↗
2 Dec 2024
We all know the Washington State flag is pretty bad. Here’s how we change itoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2024
Exile Ourselvesoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2024
Let the decimation of the Everett Herald be when we decided to save journalism in Washingtonoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2024
Will Thurston County deaths outstrip births again?original ↗
15 Jun 2024
Bill and Tony Norton and the criminalizing of candidate names in Washington Stateoriginal ↗
14 May 2024
Re-examining the out-of-town (or just corporate) real estate investment in Thurston Countyoriginal ↗
10 May 2024

2023

Why Do Young People Vote Less? Reframing the Narrative Through Brain Developmentoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2023
What statewide partisan identification could mean for 2024 elections and beyondoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2023
After “turn in your ballot on the last day” rhetoric, late ballots more than tripled and trended Republicanoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2023
How to grow our local civic cultures and increase voter turnout: pay for itoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2023
School board races were much more interesting, and more confusing, this year (Thurston County election maps 2023)original ↗
24 Nov 2023
From an interesting kind of map to more typical maps in Thurston County’s general election (Prop 1 and County Commission races)original ↗
19 Nov 2023
The (mostly) lack of evidence of the impact of race in Badillo-Diiorio/Scott race in for North Thurston Schoolsoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2023
Why Sixty-Five Road?original ↗
4 Nov 2023
Why did denser neighborhoods vote for the Regional Fire Authority?original ↗
6 May 2023
How our history of downzoning is an argument against “local control” in the legislature and has huge impacts on racial discrimination in housingoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2023
Why we don’t see the newsoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2023
Three ways to think about pedestrian deaths in Thurston County between 2006 and 2020original ↗
2 Jan 2023

2022

Why I wasn’t born in the City of Laceyoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2022
How an incumbent sheriff losesoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2022
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