Plug Into Your Progressive Community!

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35 Years of tugboats and maritime heritage celebrated on the beautiful Olympia waterfront! Entertainment, food, art, history, and a last farewell to the summer! For the weekend schedule, go to-- http://www.harbordays.com...

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Our community needs to discuss a number of controversies and issues.
Each person has different values, experiences, and perspectives.
Solving our community’s concerns needs everyone’s voice – including yours!
How can we discuss these concerns and respect your voice and other people’s voices?

Please join with others on Wed. Sept. 3 to start figuring out how to do this.

We are starting to create community dialogues to help us address a wide variety of community issues. Let’s provide a format in which we speak to be heard, and learn to listen as others do the same.

Refreshments provided

Terry Zander has organized this to serve the community. For more information contact Terry at 943-6109 or tezzer1@msn.com

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HELP US!

We need volunteers to work in 1 or 2 hr shifts as we table at the Farmers' Market from 10-3.

On the tables, we have 3 things people may sign:

1. The brand new ISTHMUS PARK PETITION from the Olympia Capitol Park Foundation. It proposes a feasibility analysis shall be conducted to investigate the acquisition and development of a part of the Capitol Lake-Budd Inlet Isthmus. This initiative has been developed by ALUMNI CITY PLANNERS.

2. Our own petition that ALL may sign to stop high rise development on the Isthmus

3. A sign-up sheet for people who would like to help us get the word out. CONTACT SUSAN @ 866-1935, seaolympia@gmail.com

Go to our website for more info on this very important issue... www.nuprometheus.com/frie...

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PLEASE ATTEND THIS CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND HAVE YOUR SAY!

The vote to repeal  from the governance committee came after city staff told the committee that out of all of the correspondence the city has received on the issue since January 1, 2004 through today, 216 people favored the ordinance, 38 opposed it, and 28 had no opinion. In other words despite the fact that 76% of the people who weighed in on the issue favored the ordinance, the committee voted to repeal it.

City staff also reported that they had done research to determine whether the contracting provisions of the ordinance were a burden for city staff, and whether any potential contractors had refused to sign contracts because of the nuclear free provision. They found that the contract language was NOT a burden on city staff, and that only one potential contractor (a local carpenter) had refused to sign and decided he did not want to work for the city. In other words, the ordinance has no significant administrative burden, yet the committee voted to repeal it.

Responding to question from Ottavelli, City Attorney Tom Morrill said that he does NOT believe the ordinance poses any additional risk or liability to the City. Yet the committee voted to repeal it. In other words, there is no legitimate reason to repeal the ordinance. Yet the committee voted to repeal it anyway.

While there were numerous ludicrous comments offered by the committee as they made the case for repeal (“all vets oppose the ordinance” “we don’t live in a democracy”) one of the most outlandish came from a member, who said that taking stands on important issues reduces the council’s moral authority. Huh? What good is moral authority if it’s not used to advance important issues?

It’s very clear that the decision to overturn the ordinance is pure politics and is designed to appease a small minority. 

Meanwhile it’s a slap in the face to the hundreds of Olympians that educated the community, attended the public hearings, and voiced support for the ordinance.

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This is your chance to find out what is available, in Washington State, in the way of electric, bio-diesel, and hybrid cars. It’s one thing to go to a show and see someone else’s green car, but to see one that you could actually own is a whole other thing. YellowBearJourneys.com is offering a one-day version of it's Green Car Tour.
We'll start in Olympia and head to Seattle, visiting Green Transportation companies in both locations.